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1. I plan to use NDMP option for my NAS heads, since all four (4) NAS heads are active at the same time do I need two (2) NDMP or four (4) NDMP options?
NDMP tiered and are licensed per active controller Hence if your NAS has 4 active controllers so you should buy single NDMP tier 4 license. (Do verify with Sym representative for NDMP tiering)
2. I plan to deploy two (2) backup servers. I understand I need two (2) Enterprise Server options for this. How many tape drives are supported for each server ? Do I need to purchase additional tape drive options similar to BE 2012 LEO? (Got sevral HP MSL4048 and 2024 tape libraries)
2 x Backup server. (presuming it is master server , then yes 2 enterprise server license would be required
there is no tape drive complement here same as BE.
NBU charges you on per tape drive being used and shared.
e.g. 8 drive tape library with 4 drive being shared with other NBU servers
tape drive license x 8
share storage option x 4 (per drive shared)
3. I plan to get Enterprise Disk Option, how is this licensed ? Per Backup server or storage capacity ?
Enterprise disk are licensed per front end terabyte
4. How are Hyper-V agents licensed ? per host or per vms ? Got 31 blades all running Hyper-V, Will I need 32x Hyper-V agents ?
NBU is best for Virtualization
1 x enterprise client = Per Physical hypervisor server
1 x app db pack = per physical hypervisor (protect unlimited guest vms with app abd db awareness e.g. Exchange, sql, oracle, ad, sharepoint etc.)
in your case if you have 32 Physical Hyper-V servers with xx Guest running inside ..
32 x enterprise client
If application aware ness backups are required for guest vm then instead of buying for individual guest you can buy license for physical host and protect all guest
5. We want all backups to pass through the SAN (Fibre Channel) instead of the LAN. Do I need SAN client or SAN media server for this ? How is this license per host, per vm or capacity ?
for SAN based backups enterprise client license are required
NBU offers two option
SAN media server (backups local data over SAN, no remote client streaming to SAN, no Disk based SAN backup supported)
FT media server (No local data can be backed up over SAN, only remote clients can be streamed over SAN, both disk and tape can be destination)
FT media server requires Q Logic family HBA and OS must be RHEL/SLES
This would be best if in case more number of clients are to be streamed over SAN
Hope this helps
