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Licensing a Hyper-V based virtual environment

gmunyadzwe
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I am getting conflicting answers on how to license the following environment for backing up with Backup Exec 2012. This is an e-flex license model.

 

14 Hyper-V hosts running Windows Server 2008 R2

45 Virtual Machines - Windows Server 2008 R2

4 node Exchange DAG – Exchange 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2

2 Node SQL 2008 cluster

 

The 45 VM's comprise of a mixture of highly available AD, System Center 2012, SEP 12.x, File and Print, and the other Exchange roles, among others. May you please point me the right direction on how many agents and of what type.

 

1. Agent for Hyper-V and VMware

2. Agent for Applications and Databases

3. Remote Agent for Windows Servers

4. etc

 

Note that the BE server is physical and dedicated solely to BE 2012

 

 

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CraigV
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Hi,


Check below and you will get a better understanding:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH178479

http://eval.symantec.com/mktginfo/enterprise/other_resources/backup_exec_licensing_guide_21223660.en...

As always, Symantec's licensing department is the final authority on licensing so maybe contact them too.

Thanks!

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CraigV
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Hi,


Check below and you will get a better understanding:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH178479

http://eval.symantec.com/mktginfo/enterprise/other_resources/backup_exec_licensing_guide_21223660.en...

As always, Symantec's licensing department is the final authority on licensing so maybe contact them too.

Thanks!

Colin_Weaver
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For licensing queries please speak to our customer care team

http://customersupport.symantec.com/

 

Just a technical point though - distributed database applications within virtual machines cannot do Granular Recovery enabled backups using a virtual agent backup, you have to use a tradtional agent process instead (although the virtual agent process with GRT disabled can be used for DR)

As such the Exchange DAG, and possibly your SQL cluster if that is virtualized, will need to be backed up with a GRT enabled traditional agent based jobs.

I am not sure this changes the licensing  as you would need Application and Database Agent licenses anyway.

pkh
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Since you have a large virtualized environment, you might want to look at the V-Ray licenses which gives you an unlimited number of Agent for Applications and Databases licenses