Re: [Networker] Disc Backup Tier licensing
2008-06-30 04:07:14
Hi,
regarding the DiskBackup Option Licenses, below is the relevant part of
the EMC OSS Price- and License Guide. It shows, that you need to count
ALL disks utilized for backups in your datazone, the total capacity ist
the license you need.
Regarding VTL and DBO licensing comparison, the relation of these two
prices is the same regardless whether it is Sun EBS or EMC NetWorker.
You are right, the base license for the 10TB VTL cost more than the 10TB
DBO.
For AVAMAR speeking, the client software of the actual 7.4.2 NW Release
already contains the Avamar code.
regards -attila
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NetWorker DiskBackup Option
Licensing
• Five Tier model based on capacity, in TB.
• Tier of License is based on capacity of disk utilized for backup in
the entire datazone.
Notes
• Available for Windows, Unix and Linux Systems
• Licenses are stackable. (You can add 2TB in addition to 1 TB to get a
3TB capacity).
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tkimball schrieb:
Yes, the tier purchased is for maximums - you don't need all of them.
Interesting though. Did this 'largest volume' portion of the license change
after 7.1.x? We were told by Sun, STK, and EMC at the time (circa 2004) that
it was total disk in use, so we needed the Tier 5 license (greater than 50 TB
aka unlimited use).
Not sure if I'd be mad or not if this was wrong, since we do have individual volumes larger than 10 TB anyway (VxFS of course - remember, this was pre-ZFS). Now we basically have full power to add as much disk as we please, within server and device license restrictions.
It's even more curious that Sun EBS VTL licensing for 10 TB is nearly 50% more
than a comparable DBO option ($10K vs $7.5K List). Even more reason why those
of us deeply in adv_file are not likely to upgrade anytime soon; I'd rather
wait for Avamar to finish integrating into the Networker code base.
--TSK
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Tim Kimball, Sungard/BRASS
Donovan Obrien wrote:
The tier license limit is the largest volume that you can use as a
DiskBackup volume, nothing to do with total storage.
So with your 10 TB storage, you will only need a Tier3 license if you plan
on using a volume greater than 6TB. If you make 20 volumes of 500GB each
then you only need a Tier1 license.
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