Licensing of Backup Exec

[Andre_Nunes]

Hi,

in customer that have this scenario bellow:

1 Host VMware with 4 VM's:

VM1 = SQL

VM2 = SQL

VM3 = Exchange

VM4 = AD;

And he has EMC Data Domain to do backup to disk.

My mode of licensing bellow is correct ?

- Deduplication option, to permit do Backup To Disk using EMC Data Domain. Or none option is necessary to use EMC Data Domain ?

- 4 agents of Application and Database to protect all of 4 applications.

Regards

[CraigV · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Best bet is to confirm this all with the Symantec licensing department, but you should need the dedupe agent for the Data Domain.

You can either use the VMware agent to backup the VMs entirely, or the application agents to backup the agents (with each app agent including a remote agent). For this you'd need 4...

As before, confirm with the licensing department before purchasing.

Thanks!

[pkh · Accepted solution]

Regardless of whether you backup the VM's as VM's or as physical machines, you would need 4 Agent for Applications and Databases licences.

If you want to backup the VM's as VM's, then you would need a VMware agent licence for the host.

If you are licenced for the DD Boost option and want to use the Data Domain as a dedup appliance, then you need to get the dedup licence for BE.