Licensing Exchange CAS and DAG

[Ahmad54]

Hello,

There is a customer who has 2 physical Exchange CAS load balanced using NLB, and 2 physical Exchange Mailbox servers participating in a DAG. Using Backup Exec 2014, how many licenses are required for such setup? I read in the Backup Exec 2014 Licensing Guide that: "The Agent for Windows is required to be installed on each Exchange Client Access Server (CAS) in order to perform granular recovery. As this is a Backup Exec granular recovery technology specific requirement for Exchange we do not require the purchase of the Agent for Windows (AWS) for the CAS servers, just simply install AWS to each one ". Download link found here.

Does this mean that only two Agent for Applications and Databases licenses are required (for the mailbox servers)? If so, does this entitles the customer to take a backup from those CAS servers, since they will have Agent for Windows Server installed?

Thank you!

[VJware]

Afaik, one must enter an Agent for Applications & Databases license on the Backup Exec server for each Exchange Server in the DAG that you want to back up. You must then install the Agent for Windows (which is included with the Agent for Applications & Databases) on all the servers in the DAG.

Best to confirm with the licensing dept though - http://www.symantec.com/support/assistance_care.jsp