Licensing for Virtual environments depend on how your backups are
Licensing for Virtual environments depend on how your backups are configured.
Guest Based Backups
- If you are performing guest based backups and have NetWorker client installed
on each VM, then you can make use of the NetWorker Virual Edition Client
license. This license is per ESX Server and allows unlimited number of VMs to
be backed up. - If you have applications running in the VMs and have the
corresponding application module installed on the VM, one module license per
ESX server will allow multiple applications of the same type to be backed up.
- This licensing policy is applicable to non-VMware environments like Hyper-V,
IBM LPars, HP nPars etc.
Proxy based backup (VCB)
- If you are performing VCB backups of your VMware environment, then a
"regular" client license on the proxy is sufficient. This will allow you to
perform recoveries to the individual VMs as well.
Regards!
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From: MIchael Leone <Michael.Leone AT PHA.PHILA DOT GOV>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Sent: Tue, March 23, 2010 5:35:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Networker] client licenses for vmware virtual machines
EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on
03/23/2010 08:01:26 AM:
> Hi, the admin guide states the following which indicates that there
> is specific licenseing differences for VMs:
>
> The Virtual Edition Client Connection licence type is used to
> license virtual machines
> in the NetWorker environment. The Physical host identified in the
> Client resource
> consumes one Virtual Edition Client Connection license, regardless of
how many
> virtual clients are running on that host. If
>
> So i am none the wiser as to what licenses i require.
It works like this (I think):
The license you quoted above is for 1 physical host (the actual VMware
box). The Virtual Edition Client Connection is the license for all clients
on that particular host. However, my understanding is that if you get this
license, you can't recover individual files in those VMs, but only the
entire VM. (since to VMware, each VM is really just a couple large binary
files) I think of it as similar to doing a saveset recover, but without
the option to specify only certain files, with each VM being similar to an
entire saveset. When you recover, you get the entire saveset (entire VM).
This is good for recovering in bulk, perhaps for D/R purposes.
Me, I need to be able to recover individual files from each VM. So I buy
the regular NW client licenses, and treat each VM as if it was a separate
physical machine, and backup/recover (and license) the same as my physical
machines.
HTH (and I hope I am right about the licenses, and haven't confused the
issue more)
>
> Thanks, Mark
>
>
> --- On Tue, 23/3/10, denis.mail.list AT free DOT fr <denis.mail.list AT free
> DOT fr>
wrote:
>
>
> From: denis.mail.list AT free DOT fr <denis.mail.list AT free DOT fr>
> Subject: Re: [Networker] client licenses for vmware virtual machines
> To: "EMC NetWorker discussion" <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>,
> "mark wragge" <mark_t_wragge AT YAHOO DOT IE>
> Date: Tuesday, 23 March, 2010, 11:12
>
>
> Hello,
>
> VM are physical machines, according to Networker.
>
> The client is running on every machine, not on the vmware.
>
> Denis
>
> ----- "mark wragge" <mark_t_wragge AT YAHOO DOT IE> a écrit :
>
> > Hi, do i need to license vmware VMs in the same way that i would do
> > for physical machines? For example, if i have 3 Windows VMs should i
> > have 3 networker client licenses.
> >
> > Additionally, if the windows VMs are configured as a Windows Cluster
> > running SQL do i need to license for windows cluster client connection
> > per node and 1 * SQL agent?
> >
> > Thanks for any help on this.
> >
> > Mark Wragge
> >
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