enchanter wrote:
> In regard to: Re: [Networker] An interesting article about NetWorker 7.5,...:
> 
> 
> > enchanter wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I'm intrigued by the virtualization licensing changes.
> > > 
> > 
> > The documentation is awful, but virtual guest licensing actually changed
> > in 7.4.3. Simply drop the owning vmware, xen, hyper-v, virtual iron,
> > etc. host into the "physical host" attribute and you free up a license.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for the great info Rich!  We're still running 7.4.2 since my sense
> from the list is that 7.4.3 isn't quite as stable, but this gives us a
> compelling reason to consider upgrading.
> 
> Tim
> 


I asked our TC about this today, specifically the licensing for the 
host....essentially you can get a license for the host and backup all the 
guests that run on top of it, regardless of the number.  Evidently the 
break-even is about 5 virtual machines, i.e. if you have more than 5 virtual 
machines the host license is more cost effective, if you have 4 or less, then 
the individual licenses are cheaper overall.

HTH
--brerrabbit

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