[Veritas-bu] Netbackup and VMWare Licencing

FYI (here's what I got straight from the monkey's mouth... ;-)

Maybe this clears something up?  Haven't been following this thread
really...

Cheers,
J _D_

{Paul, I shed the JR when the old man retired ;)



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MULTIPLE DOMAIN OR VIRTUAL MACHINE SYSTEMS

NetBackup components (servers, clients, and database agents) for UNIX,
Windows, NetWare, and Linux are each licensed

once per physical machine. If a physical machine runs multiple Operating
Systems and Databases, then the physical machine

requires one NetBackup component for each Operating System and Database
type. Please note that this policy supersedes

previous licensing policies that were communicated before the date of
this document.

Exception: NetBackup Clients installed on IBM zSeries (OS/390) should be
licensed once per virtual machine. This is an

exception to the standard NetBackup policy of licensing clients once per
physical machine.
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-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Paul
Keating
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 11:57 AM
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup and VMWare Licencing

We were as Scott.

Each client *TYPE* needs a license....

As Scott said, if you have 5 NetWare, 5 Windows and 5 Linux, you need a
license per OS type....
I didn't think it was limited to 5 though...I was under the impression
for a given host, you need one license for the host, then 1 license PER
client TYPE.

Ie, a vmware ESX host running linux with 10 linux VMs running would be 2
linux licenses.

A vmware ESX host running linux with 10 windows VMs would be 1 linux and
1 windows, etc,

Paul

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Bobby 
> Williams
> Sent: September 19, 2006 11:43 AM
> To: Scott Jacobson; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Hampus Lind
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup and VMWare Licencing
> 
> 
> That is not what I "infer" from the support matrix (5.X) 
> http://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_
> Enterprise_Server/263839.pdf
> 
> It indicates that the VM host needs a license and each client needs a 
> license.
> 
> If you have something that shows this better than the support matrix, 
> please let us know.  We are way over purchasing licenses if you are 
> correct.
> 
> Bobby.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
 
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