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Service Provider Licensing and Billing for Virtualization

Updated Monday, September 19, 2022

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Virtualization license usage is calculated depending on whether you purchased a capacity-based or entity-based license:

VMs protected by VSA with supported applications count to Advanced VMs
VMs protected by VSA with non-supported applications count to VM Only + Application Server
VMs not protected by VSA with supported applications count to Application Server
VMs not protected by VSA with non-supported applications count to Application Server

The following VM protection scenarios appear in the Subclient Peak License report under the indicated license types.

VM Protection	License in Reports
VSA: No other agents present	VM only
VSA A separate file system (FS) not through VSA	VM only FS only VM
VSA A supported app-aware agent like SQL protected through VSA	Advanced VM
VSA A supported app-aware agent like SQL protected through VSA A separate FS protection not through VSA	Advanced VM FS only VM
VSA A supported app-aware agent like SQL that is separately protected (not through VSA)	VM only Application server
Protected by VSA A supported app-aware agent like SQL that is separately protected (not through VSA) A separate FS protection not through VSA	VM only Application server: Both SQL and FS jobs are counted under application server
VSA A non-app-aware supported agent like Informix separately protected (not through VSA)	VM only Application server
VSA A non-app-aware supported agent like Informix separately protected (not through VSA) A separate FS protection not through VSA	VM only Application server: Both Informix and FS jobs are counted under application server
Not protected by VSA FS	FS-only VM
Not protected by VSA Any application protection (supported/unsupported) like SQL or Informix	Application server
Not protected by VSA Any application protection (supported/unsupported) like SQL or Informix FS Agent	Application server: Both SQL/Informix and FS jobs are counted under application server