Backup Exec V-Ray Edition
Hi,
We plan to purchase BE2014 V-Ray Edition for the following working Environment:
2 Clustered Hyper-V Host with 2 Processors having 8 cores each
Each host has 3 Virtual Machines:
File Server using 4 cores
Management using 2 cores
AD using 2 cores
We would like to back the images of the virtual machines and the files and folders in the File Server Virtual Machine
Appreciate if you enlighten as to how many licenses should we need to pruchase;
Thanks,
PTU
The V-Ray edition is licenced on a per occupied CPU socket basis. In your case, you would need 4 licences.
I don't know what you mean by Management, but if those servers do not have any applications and databases. It might be cheaper to just buy 2 Hyper-V agent licences which would also entitle you to load RAWS onto your VM.
Using the Hyper-V agent and with a single backup (where GRT is enabled), you can restore complete VMs (.vhd) and also restore individual files and folders. I would recommend you to have a look @ the Hyper-V agent whitepaper for a detailed understanding on the agent's features - https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/backup-exec-2014-technical-white-paper-protecting-hyper-v-environments
So there is no need to buy any extra agent for the VMs since they are included. You'll need agent for windows license only if you are planning to backup physical machines.