licenses

[Ashz_Tomz]

We wish to go for Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 for our  DR site  (there are 4 windows servers in primary backing up and we  need this to  be restored in DR site ) and its Virtualized DR Solution .

Could you please let me know if we just need only one backup exec server license ?

do we need any remote agent licenses to be purhased

what is this live state recovery ?

[MitchR]

You probably want to talk to Symantec Sales about this, but I'll give my best guess.

You'll need a BE server license for every server it's installed on - even if it's a DR server you (hopefully) never use.  Ditto for any agents at your DR site - if it's installed, you need to pay for it.

As for Virtulazation, last I've heard is that you buy an agent for each machine - real or virtual.  It's possible to have an agent on the host server, plus an agent for each VM that's on that server.

Think of it as the same as OS licenses.

[MitchR]

You probably want to talk to Symantec Sales about this, but I'll give my best guess.

You'll need a BE server license for every server it's installed on - even if it's a DR server you (hopefully) never use.  Ditto for any agents at your DR site - if it's installed, you need to pay for it.

As for Virtulazation, last I've heard is that you buy an agent for each machine - real or virtual.  It's possible to have an agent on the host server, plus an agent for each VM that's on that server.

Think of it as the same as OS licenses.

[ricdanger]

You should give a quick look at the EULA that ships with BE (also with the evaluation version).
If you license AVVI or AMVS on each virtualizaed server you will be able to deploy multiple RALUS and RAWS inside the VMs without cost. You will still have to buy the agents for applications like Exchange and SQL.

[Ashz_Tomz]

Yes that is right mitchr. I guess i figured it right...

thank u so much