If you are backing them up as if there were physical machines then you
will need one license for each machine.  NetBackup does not license
differently for virtual machines.

In fact you are better of going this way as the vcb backup method can
cost you more in licensing.

Regards

James

mark wragge wrote:
> Hi,
> I have purchased Netbackup Starter Pack with 5 standard client license.
> I would like to backup some Virtual Machines (win2003, winxp and linux).
> I have 10 VMs in total.
>
> Does each VM have to be licensed if i back it up? Are the client
> licenses treated the same as physical server backups?
>
> I will not be using VCB backups.
>
> Thanks for any help, Mark
>
>
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