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lelei90343's avatar
lelei90343
Level 4
10 years ago

NBU license question

I want to ask a questioni, about NBU license. my customer has 1 master server(linux 7.5.0.5), 2 media servers, 10 file servers, 7 oracle databases servers, 2 MSSQL servers. 3 EXSi servers. 2 tape lib...
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  • Andrew_Madsen's avatar
    Andrew_Madsen
    10 years ago

    You are missing the standard client for the 10 file servers, 7 Linux, and 2 MS Windows, that is if your Oracle server is running on Linux. For database servers the license is needed to backup the file system and a different one for the database on a database server. As Adonis pointed out the Tiering is based on how many CPU the all the machines have. For instance in your example the Tier 3 license covers 4 - 7 sockets on a Windows box and 5 - 12 sockets on a Linux / Unix box.

Adonis_Manansal's avatar
Adonis_Manansal
Level 6
10 years ago

Hi lelei,

Based on the above servers you provided, below is the initial BOM.

  • 3 units NBU Server Tier ? (please verify the number of cores for tiering purposes)  + maintenance = 1 unit for master server and 2 units for media server
  • 16 units NBU Option Library Tape Drive + maintenance = For the tape drives
  • 16 units NBU option Shared Storage + maintenance = for each tape drives that is shared
  • 10 units NBU Standard Client Tier 3 + Maintenance = For the File Servers
  • 3 units NBU Enterprise Client + maintenance = license for the 3 exsi Host Server
  • 7 units NBU Standard Client Linux Tier 3 + maintenance = NBU Client license for the 7 Oracle Server
  • 7 units NBU Application and Database Pack + maintenance = licenses for 7 Oracle database
  • 2 units NBU Standard Client windows Tier 3 + Maintenance = NBU Client license for the 2 Windows Server
  • 2 units NBU Application and Database pack tier 3 + maintenance = for the MS SQL Database

To come-up with the proper licenses, you can contact your reseller or you may refer to Symantec Customer Care, they are the ones who handle licenses.

 

Regards,

Adonis