How CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby Licensing Works

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How CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby Licensing Works

CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby contains the following licenses:

CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby-Physical
CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby-VMware
CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby-Hyper-V

All of the licenses are count-based. CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby verifies and grants licenses to CA ARCserve D2D nodes based on the following criteria:

CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby applies CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby-Physical licenses to all CA ARCserve D2D nodes that you add by Name/IP address or import from a file. CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby grants CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby-Physical licenses to the nodes after you apply a policy to the nodes and start the virtual conversion process.
Note: This is the default behavior for CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby licensing.
CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby applies CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby-VMware licenses to all CA ARCserve D2D nodes that you add by Name/IP address or import from a file, and are VMware virtual machines that reside on ESX Server systems or vCenter Server systems. However, before CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby can apply the CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby-VMware licenses to the nodes, you must associate the nodes with a specific ESX Server system or vCenter Server system.
Note: For more information, see Specify the ESX Server or vCenter Server System for VMware-Based Nodes.

CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby grants the CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby-VMware licenses to each ESX Server system after you apply a policy to the nodes and start the virtual conversion process.
CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby applies CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby-VMware licenses to all virtual machine nodes that you import from a CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup system. CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby grants the CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby-VMware licenses to virtual machine nodes after you apply a policy to the nodes and start the virtual conversion process.
CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby applies CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby-Hyper-V licenses to all CA ARCserve D2D nodes that you add by Name/IP address or import from a file and reside on a Hyper-V hypervisor. CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby detects the presence of the Hyper-V server when you add by the nodes by Name/IP address or import the nodes from a file. CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby grants the CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby-Hyper-V licenses to CA ARCserve D2D nodes after you add the nodes by Name/IP address or import the nodes from a file.

Count Mechanism

The following table describes the quantity of CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby licenses required for a given scenario.

Type of D2D Node	License Required	Count Mechanism
Physical node	CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby-Physical	One license for each node
VMware virtual machine	CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby-VMware	One license for each ESX/vCenter Server system
Hyper-V virtual machine	CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby-Hyper-V	One license for each Hyper-V system

Examples

CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby is protecting five physical CA ARCserve D2D nodes. Five CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby-Physical licenses are required.
CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby is protecting three VMware virtual machines that reside on one ESX Server system. One CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby-VMware license is required.
CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby is protecting 100 VMware virtual machines distributed on ten ESX Server systems. Ten CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby-VMware licenses are required.
CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby is protecting 20 Hyper-V virtual machines distributed on five Hyper-V systems. Five CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby-Hyper-V licenses are required.
CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby is protecting three Hyper-V virtual machines that reside on one Hyper-V system and three VMware virtual machines that reside on one ESX Server system. One CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby-VMware license is required and one CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby-Hyper-V license is required.
CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby is protecting five VMware virtual machines that were imported from CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup and reside on one ESX Server system. One CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby-VMware license is required.

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Release Licenses from Nodes