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Re: [Networker] Temporary increase cluster licenses ?

2008-03-31 07:42:46
Subject: Re: [Networker] Temporary increase cluster licenses ?
From: Manel Rodero <manel AT FIB.UPC DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:38:01 +0200
Hello,

We have used a temporary enabler "NT Cluster Clients/Unlimited" (it will expire on May 13, 2008) but we get the same error messsage about the limit of 2 licenses:

Server info: Unable to grant NT CLUSTER CLIENT license to client newclusternode1: Too many clients for license type D0 Windows NT Server on Intel. Maximum is 2.

Any idea about how can we test the backups of the new cluster servers?

Thank you.

Browning, David wrote:
This is a problem we all run into from time to time. You can usually get a temp enabler from your Networker sales rep.
If not, they have some temp enablers in the old Media Kits that they
used to send out - not sure if you have any of those old media kits.
And you will have a problem, if a year from now, you need to restore a
backup from one of those clusters. You will need enablers when you go to
restore them.   At least it's that way with Exchange and SQL - I assume
it's the same with Cluster licenses.
David M. Browning Jr.
IT Project Coordinator Enterprise Backups and Help Desk

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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Manel Rodero
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:27 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Temporary increase cluster licenses ?

Hello,

We're in the process of migrating our "old" Windows 2000 cluster to a
"new" Windows 2008 cluster in a new AD domain.

While we're installing, configuring and populating this new AD domain we
need to do backups using Legato but, at the same time, we need to backup
the "old" cluster too.

As we only have 2 cluster licenses and these are in use (we need to
backup these servers until the last user is migrated), we get the
following error messages:

Server info: Unable to grant NT CLUSTER CLIENT license to client
newclusternode1: Too many clients for license type D0 Windows NT Server
on Intel. Maximum is 2.

Is it possible to use temporary cluster licenses? How? The backups done
with this temporary license are recoverable when we remove the old
servers and use our old license?

Thank you very much!

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o o o  Manel Rodero                   | LCFIB - UPC
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o o o  Manel Rodero                   | LCFIB - UPC
o o o  Systems Manager                | Campus Nord - Modul B6
o o o  Laboratori de Calcul           | Jordi Girona, 1-3
U P C  Facultat Informatica Barcelona | 08034 Barcelona (Spain)
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