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posie80
Level 4
14 years ago

Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 licensing

Hi all! I'm in the middle of procuring a few new servers, which will need Veritas Storage Foundation standard on them. I've been getting outrageous quotes from the vendor and also some confusin...
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  • Gaurav_S's avatar
    Gaurav_S
    14 years ago
    for 1,  have a look at

    https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/faqs-and-myths-storage-foundation-keys

    Hope this helps


    Gaurav
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Gaurav_S
Moderator
14 years ago

I will need to look a bit for question 1.. however here are answers for 2 & 3

2)  4.0 licenses will work with 5.1 as well.... you shouldn't have any issues there.... however if your 4.0 server also had old licenses (belonging to 3.x version) then there might be an issue, you need to contact symantec & get your licenses replaced with new ones.... easy way to identify is, old 3.x licenses were numeric however new licenses starting 4.0 were alpha-numeric.....

3) yes, 5.1 provides built in eval license for 60 days..... & once you get your own license key, you can install it simply with "vxlicinst" command... this doesn't need any downtime..

I will come back for que 1...



Gaurav