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BackupDawg
Level 4
9 years ago

CASO & MMS Licensing

Hi,   I thought I had a handle on the Backup Exec licensing model, however after a long conversation with the 'offshore' support agent, they have completely confused me. I have a CASO and an...
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  • VJware's avatar
    VJware
    9 years ago

    Backup Exec Server licenses are installed at ALL media servers. These licenses already include the agent license for backing up itself. The Enterprise Server Option which includes the CASO-MMS functionality is installed on the primary media server which will be designated as the CASO.

    Remote Agent licenses are installed on the media server which is going to do the actual backup of the remote server. It can either be the CASO or MMS or both depending upon which media server you will use for the backup. Since in your case, the MMS server will do the actual backup of the file server, the Remote Agent license will be installed at the MMS.

    To summarize in your setup -

    1) CASO server will have the BE server license + Enterprise Server Option.

    2) MMS server will have the BE server license

    3) MMS server will have the RAWS license

VJware's avatar
VJware
Level 6
9 years ago

Backup Exec Server licenses are installed at ALL media servers. These licenses already include the agent license for backing up itself. The Enterprise Server Option which includes the CASO-MMS functionality is installed on the primary media server which will be designated as the CASO.

Remote Agent licenses are installed on the media server which is going to do the actual backup of the remote server. It can either be the CASO or MMS or both depending upon which media server you will use for the backup. Since in your case, the MMS server will do the actual backup of the file server, the Remote Agent license will be installed at the MMS.

To summarize in your setup -

1) CASO server will have the BE server license + Enterprise Server Option.

2) MMS server will have the BE server license

3) MMS server will have the RAWS license