Good point. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: william.d.brown AT gsk DOT com [mailto:william.d.brown AT gsk DOT com] 
> Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 12:41 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] RE: VMWARE
> 
> Veritas have changed the licencing for VMware fairly 
> recently.  Check it applies to your version....
> 
> Basically if you backup the ESX server you need a redHat 
> client licence as per the actual hardware.
> 
> Then you need (assuming you are using...) one client licence 
> per OS type you run as VMs on that ESX server (*does not 
> apply to IBM mainframe class *).
> 
> So if you have say a HP proliant...with 8 Windows VMs and Two 
> Linux VMs...
> 
> One RedHat client for the ESX server
> One Windows client
> One Linux client
> 
> Cheap...
> 
> But BWR if you run parallel backups of several VMs on one 
> physical server, don't expect good throughput.
> 
> William D L Brown
> 
> 
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