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Per Terabyte licensing

goodierocks
Level 2

Hi

Newbie to this site, i was trying to find the answer to the following question. I have 2 x 5220 appliances. I am backing up 2tb with ddup. I am licensed for 4tb in total. with my retention policy i am running low on space. is the license for the size of data being backed e.g the server data size or is it the data stored on the appliances.

If my server has 1.8tb of data and i back that up twice using full backup that would be 3.6tb on stored data on appliance what licence do i need, 1.8tb or 3.6tb

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Marianne
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You license capacity that exist on your clients.
In other words, the equivalent of one full backup of all your clients.

You license per TB. So, for 1.8TB on your clients, you need to license 2TB.

Even if you backup the 1.8TB a hundred times, you still need to license 2 TB.

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Marianne
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Partner    VIP    Accredited Certified

You license capacity that exist on your clients.
In other words, the equivalent of one full backup of all your clients.

You license per TB. So, for 1.8TB on your clients, you need to license 2TB.

Even if you backup the 1.8TB a hundred times, you still need to license 2 TB.

Jim-90
Level 6

To get spreadsheet on your capacity license status run:

nbdeployutil --gather --capacity

Followed by

nbdeployutil --report <file generated by the previous command>

probably best to give the absolute path name of the file.