Which version of Backup Exec ? - V-ray or other

Hi Roger,

Vray is going to give you a number of benefits like backing up VMs in their entirety while allowing GRT-based backups and restores of said-VMs. "Vanilla" Backup Exec will only do this on a file-/resource-level basis so there is merit for going the Vray route.

Read below for more information:

http://www.symantec.com/en/uk/backup-exec-vray-edition/

https://www.veritas.com/community/blogs/whats-included-backup-exec-v-ray-edition

Another major benefit is the licensing (per physical socket) that includes all agents such as SQL, SharePoint etc, meaning you don't have to purchase these additional licenses for your environment.

Thanks!

You should compare the cost of V-Ray with the Capacity Edition as you might find Capacity is more cost effective and Capacity also allows you to backup the odd physical machine where v-ray needs extra licenses added for that scernario.

So your choices that need comparing are

a) Backup Exec Server license, with correct mumber if virtula agent license, database agent licenses and windows agnet licenses (if needed, along with any other requirements that you have not thoguht to mention)) - basically the traditonal or standard license model

b) V_ray licenses - where you may still need some further licenses depending in ecerythign in youyr backup environment (but will need less than option a )

c) Capacity Edition Licenses - which enable everything you just have to understand how capacitt is calcualted to make sure you have designe in for respnable expansion - although you can expand later)

d) Capacity Edition lite license (which has some limitations - no CASO setup, no deduplication etc, but otherwise is same as Capacity Edition)

So, i'm familiar with how the versions of Backup Exec operate and as far as i know there are three main versions, what i'm not clear on is how the licensing works for Capacity & V-ray (maybe there are other editions as well ?)

Capacity edition - based on amount being backed up. Includes all required agents. This seesm to be on a per TB license model ?. So i'd need say at least a 6 TB edition  for comfort ?

V-Ray edition - not completely clear on licensing, esopecially for more than server, so is it *both* sockets and cores that are counted and then just total these for the maximum number to find out how many licenses required ?. Ie for my scenario, there are a total of 16 cores and 4 sockets spread across two servers, so do i need a v-ray license per socket for the correct number of cores ?

Standard edition - For my scenario i'd need one standard server and 3 database and application agents (yes i would want granular backups - apologies for not making this clear in the original post). Fairly clear on this model since it is the way we have gone before.

Anybody like to confirm or offer advice ?

Roger

1) Approximately yes.

2) V-Ray comes in two tiers ~ V-Ray Edition 2-6 cores and the V-Ray Edition 8 plus cores

So for a host with 2 sockets with 4 cores each, you would need two (2) V-Ray Edition 2-6 cores.

VJware

Thanks, so essentially v-ray license is per socket and then based on number of cores ?.

Are there capacity ranges for the capacity edition (ie 1 Tb, 2-4 TB etc) or is it just a 1 TB, 2 TB, 3 TB etc

Roger

Yes.

Capacity editions also has tiers as follows -

1 TB
2 to 5 TB
6 to 15 TB
16 to 25 TB
26 plus TB

The ranges for TB count for disconuted licensing for capacity edition are mentioned/discussed in the content of both of the links I posted earlier