Today NW prices them the same as a regular tape library.  Hopefully a
capacity-based model will be coming.

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W. Curtis Preston
Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies 

-----Original Message-----
From: Teresa Biehler [mailto:tpbsys AT rit DOT edu] 
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 6:18 AM
To: EMC NetWorker discussion; Curtis Preston
Subject: RE: [Networker] VTL or disk cabinet backup

How are VTLs licensed?  At one point I thought NW considered a VTL to be
the same as a physical library, but I thought EMC was moving to a
capacity-based scheme here too.  So, we could not, for example, just
begin using our "unlimited-slot tape library" to license a VTL of
unlimited size.  Is this correct?

Thanks.
Teresa

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Curtis Preston
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 11:24 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] VTL or disk cabinet backup


>One other thing that's worth noting about diskbackup licenses for 
>networker is that the license puts restrictions on the actual amount of

>data on disk, compared to library based licenses, who put restrictions
on 
>the amount of slots instead. This means that unlike library licenses, 
>diskbackup licenses don't allow you to put more data in over time, as 
>technology evolves.

That's an interesting thought.  It's a drawback of capacity-based
licensing.

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