Enterprise Vault FSA Licensing

[ia01]

Product:SYMC ENTERPRISE VAULT FILE SYSTEM ARCHIVING - ARCHIVING & SEARCH 9.0 WIN PER TB STD LIC REWARDS BAND E License Quantity:15

Can anyone please explain what that Quantity:15 means? Called Symantec Sales but they are unable to provide a clear guidance. 

Does it means 15TB? If yes, that 15 TB is for archived data or targetted data?

If 15TB is targeted data for example, then we may already have 10TB in archive already and now targetting 15TB, is that possible, how does it count?

Mnay Thanks

[Rob_Wilcox1]

It's per user...

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/ev-fsa-licensing

[Rob_Wilcox1]

Okay, well, your licensing quote there is Tb... but I think it's changed to per user now?

[ia01]

I guess this particular license is based on per TB. Now very confusing how exactly you calculate this TB.

[TonySterling]

Symantec has changed the FSA licensing model a few times over the years.  I believe the 15 TB was supposed to be the original size of the data in the archive. 

[ZeRoC00L]

Correct, the exact definition from the licensing guide:

Total Terabytes (TB) of uncompressed , non-deduplicated files that are under management by EV/FSA/SharePoint

[ia01]

Thanks guys, now the question is if we have lciense for 15TB FSA

In Archive we already have 10TB.

However in file servers we have 15TB targetted data from whcih maybe 5TB or more will get archived.

Do we need more license or we are ok as total targetted data is 15TB?

Many Thanks

[Darren_Locke · Accepted solution]

Yes, that license is a capacity license for 15TB. It is for front end capacity, not the size of the archived files in EV. You can get the original size of the files already archived by looking at the storage reports. In 10.0.04 which is due out soon, there will be a new 'usage and licensing true-up' report to help in these exact situatons.

You do not need to license for the complete size of the file server, just the size of the data to be archived. So in your scneario, 15TB on the file server, 5TB to archive, then you would need to ensure you had 5TB of unused FSA license. Remember to factor in what you are going to archive on an ongoing basis as well.

Darren

[ia01]

Thanks Darren.