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Criteria for Determining Licensing Limits
The following table provides the criteria that the Portal uses to determine license limits.
Note: For the purpose of this table, client is synonymous with backup unit.
Capacity Manager
When licensing APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager, the license is based on the raw amount of SAN storage in your environment. APTARE only include arrays that have been polled within the last 30-days.
Storage Array Capacity
licensing is based on the raw capacity of the storage arrays, in GB or TB, for arrays that have been polled within the last 30 days.
Backup Manager
A Backup Manager Unit License is required for each physical or virtual host that contains supported third-party backup software agent/server software. This includes, but is not limited to, master servers, media servers, and clients. A Backup Manager Unit License is required for each of the logical instances, not just one license for the physical machine.
CommVault Simpana
Client is counted if any of the following bullets apply:
the client has one or more iDataAgents configured.
the client was backed up within the last 48 hours. This includes decommissioned clients.
the client is a media server or a master server
EMC Avamar
Client is counted if any of the following bullets apply:
Avamar provided client data in the last 48 hours
it is an Avamar server
the client is not in the Avamar MC_RETIRED domain
EMC NetWorker
Client is counted if any of the following bullets apply:
the client resource is active
the client was backed up within the last 48 hours
the client is a media server or a master server
Generic Backups
Client is counted if any of the following bullets apply:
the client was backed up within the last 48 hours
for generic backups, only the jobs are captured.
HP Data Protector
Client is counted if any of the following bullets apply:
the backup specification is active
the client was backed up within the last 48 hours
the client is a media server or a master server
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)
Node’s client is counted if any of the following bullets apply:
the client is a media server or a master server
the client was backed up within the last 48 hours
counts all unique TSM clients for which any of the corresponding nodes on those clients have communicated with their TSM server/instance within the past 45 days
Symantec Backup Exec
Client is counted if any of the following bullets apply:
data was collected within the last 48 hours
the client was backed up within the last 48 hours
the client is a media server or a master server
Symantec NetBackup
Client is counted if any of the following bullets apply:
the client is part of an active backup policy and the policy exists in the NetBackup catalog (if deleted in NetBackup, the Portal does not count them)
the client was backed up in the last 48 hours. This includes decommissioned clients.
the client is a media server or a master server
Fabric Manager
 
counts licensed switch ports
For example, licensing checks if the switch has been licensed from the vendor, such as Brocade.
Replication Manager
 
counts the number of NetApp filers/arrays
For Replication Manager, you may have more arrays in your enterprise than you have Replication Manager licenses. In this case, StorageConsole reports on the first n arrays that are probed for data, where n is the license count for Replication Manager arrays.
If you are licensed for both Capacity Manager and Replication Manager, the Capacity Manager license must cover the total raw capacity of all arrays in your enterprise, including the raw capacity of the licensed Replication Manager arrays.
Virtualization Manager
 
counts the number of ESX servers
File Analytics
 
counts the total utilized capacity of all the shares and volumes
Note that once File Analytics data is collected, it cannot be removed from the license count.