Craig,
  Thanks for stating this, today I did the 7.5.1 upgrade and it was a breeze
literally.  I was then able to do exactly as you state...  I started ticking
off Virtual Client on all my defunct servers, and give them my first ESX
node and voila, all their licenses were freed up, even their MSSQL licenses
and Exchange licenses got squished down to one instance for the ESX node.
All in all I freed up 36 licenses, this is great news for sites that have a
lot of defunct servers in their client pool and still need them browseable.

  I highly recommend the jump to 7.5.1 if you're on a 7.4.2 system
everything just works and seems to work better so far.  The improved
reporting on active sessions and the ability to probe a client for savesets
is a godsend.

  Does anyone know if its against RTU if we backup a client, and then switch
it to a virtual client as part of our server decomission strategy?

Alec

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Craig Faller <craigf AT xsidata.com DOT au> 
wrote:

> if you have already applied the VCL (virt client lic), then going into the
> current client definition and ticking "virtual" and entering the ESX servers
> name, will automatically free up the currently allocated Client connection
> lic and begin to use the new VCL
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion on behalf of Anacreo
> Sent: Sat 8/08/2009 6:45 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] Virtual Client Licenses, how do they work?
>
>
>
> I'm looking at making the leap from NetWorker 7.4.2 to NetWorker 7.5.1 so
> that I can license my VMWare farms.  But I need to juggle licenses around
> to
> make this work under project budgeting.
>
> If I have a few defunct clients that are still taking up client
> connections,
> is it possible for me to just create a VMWare guest of the same name,
> install NetWorker on it and run a simple adhoc backup to free up the client
> connection its using and making it a virtual license?
>
> Alec
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