Just a quick follow-on to what mitch808 said, in that the "Nbu Clt App and DB 
Pk"
is also priced on a per physical server basis now as opposed to per guest basis.
So with some reorganization of you're guests down to fewer physical servers you
could probably drop the licensing costs down a bit.

-John

On 05/26/2011 05:51 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) wrote:
> HEre is the problem I have...
> 
> We have in excess of 30+ ESX Hosts, all have 4 CPU's
> We also have SQL Clusters, Oracle, Exchange, SAP, on VM and you also
> need to be licensed for them, and from the comments of the Sales guy, I
> needed a price for each DB Client too !
> 
> It has added up to a huge bill !
> Simon 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of 
> mitch808
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 7:49 AM
> To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by Veritas
> Netbackup.
> 
> Symantec changed the licensing where if you had 10 Windows guests and 10
> Linux guests, you USED to need two Enterprise Client licenses.  This was
> a 6.5 limitation.
> 
> In NBU 7, no longer.  Way to go, finally something right in licensing.
> It's an Enterprise Client per PHYSICAL host, regardless of guest OS
> type.
> This is licensed per physical CPU or tier.
> 
> Because you have Enterprise clients, you need to have an Enterprise
> master and enterprise media servers.  Again per CPU/tier, and that price
> adds up.
> 
> Point being, buy as many cores as you can afford!  Don't buy a quad CPU
> box.
> 
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