[Veritas-bu] Update RE: SSO Options

Interesting.  I can only speak to my experience which is that you only
enter an SSO license key for each *server* using SSO -- not for each
tape drive, and when we purchased the SSO licenses we only purchased per
server.

We're probably out of compliance, but until Symantec can get their act
together with licensing, I really don't care.

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Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 8:54 AM
To: MacKinnon, G. R. (Gregory); Jack Forester, Jr.
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Update RE: SSO Options


FYI -
We have 3 tape libraries with 8 drives in each library.  We had to buy
24 SSO tape drive licenses because we use multiple media servers that
share the tape drives and backup many clients.  There are SSO licenses
for master/media servers and SSO licenses for tape drives.  If you have
stand-alone (can't remember the correct name) media servers, you don't
need and shouldn't have SSO licenses for your servers and tape drives.

In fact, you (I couldn't) can't configure an SSO drive without the SSO
license key.

So, either Gregg's installation isn't SSO or somehow SSO is implemented
without the license keys.

We are running 5.0 MP3 on Windows platforms.

Regards,

Rick Morris
International Game Technology - SAP Basis Administrator
775-448-7293
-----Original Message-----
From: MacKinnon, G. R. (Gregory) [mailto:gmackinn at ford.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 11:09 AM
To: Jack Forester, Jr.
Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] SSO Options

Jack Forester, Jr. wrote:

>Something else to bear in mind:  Unless things have changed recently, 
>and I have an email  from Veritas to support this, SSO licenses are 
>licensed per drive.  If you have 5 drives that you are sharing, you
need 
>5 SSO licenses.
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>If this is not, in fact, the case, I'll need to find new Veritas reps.

>I dearly wish that they'd simplify their licensing!
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Jack,

You need to get new reps. I have 4 media servers shareing 9
tape drives and had to buy 4 SSO licenses.

Gregg

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