Alright! In previous post, we explored about the Introduction of VMware SRM 8.1. Now we are all set to explore Licensing part of VMware Site Recovery Manager which is an key area where most of the VMware Admins stuck.

You are looking for a VMware SRM Solution in your environment. Now first question is, what all licenses you required from Virtualization prospective!!

Before proceeding specific to VMware Site Recovery Licenses, you must have vCenter Server and vSphere licenses. Next to this, focusing on VMware SRM licenses which is required.

Site Recovery Manager is not included as part of any VMware vSphere editions. SRM requires an additional purchase.

Site Recovery Manager is priced per virtual machine basis it means that you need to buy Licenses on the basis of count of your Virtual Machines you want to protect.

Licenses comes in a bunch of 25 Virtual Machines. It means if you have 26 VMs need to protect, you have to buy pack of 25+25=50 Virtual Machines license for VMware SRM.

If you are using bi-directional method, means protect and re-protect, you need to buy double licensees. Let’s take an example, you have a site that contains 25 virtual machines for Site Recovery Manager to protect.

• For recovery, you require a license for at least 25 virtual machines, that you install on the protected site to allow one-way protection from the protected site to the recovery site.
• For re-protect, you require a license for at least 25 virtual machines, that you install on both the protected and the recovery site to allow bidirectional protection between the sites.

After installing VMware Site Recovery Manager, it will be in evaluation period of 60 days. After the evaluation license expires, existing protection groups remain protected and you can recover them, but you cannot create new protection groups or add virtual machines to an existing protection group until you obtain and assign a valid Site Recovery Manager license key.

There are two types of VMware SRM Licenses: –

1. Standard License
2. Enterprise License

You can check the costing and obtain VMware Site Recovery Manager licenses from Site Recovery Manager Product Licensing Center at http://www.vmware.com/products/site-recovery-manager/buy.html

That’s all from this topic. Hope it cleared your licensing doubts. If you have any further query which I couldn’t recall or if you have any inputs on this, please do not hesitate to share in comment box.

Once again thank you so much for showing your trust in Cloud Pathshala’s Blogs. Stay tuned for next article which will be on Install, Configure, and Manager of VMware Site Recovery Manager.

Take a look in below topics, explore and learn Site Recovery Manager: –

• Learn SRM – Part 1 – Introduction of VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.1
  

• Learn SRM – Part 2 – Understand VMware Site Recovery Manager Licensing

• Learn SRM – Part 3 – Understand Minimum Requirement for SRM in your Home Lab

• Learn SRM – Part 4 – Prepare for Replicated Storage in you Home Lab (Ignore this step in Real Environment. You need to interact with Storage team for all these tasks in real environment)

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.1 – Deploy HP VSA in Both Site

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.2 -Configure HP VSA Appliance Networking in both Site

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.3 -Install HP CMC Management Console

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.4 -Add Appliance in HP CMC

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.5 -Create Management Group in HP VSA

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.6 -Create Cluster and Volumes in HP VSA

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.7 -Find and Add ISCSI Initiator in ESXi Host

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.8 -Assign Volume to ESXi Host

  • Learn SRM – Part 4.9 -Scheduling Array Based Replication

• Learn SRM – Part 5 – Install VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.1 (SRM)

• Learn SRM – Part 6 – Install SRA (Storage Replication Adapter)

• Learn SRM – Part 7 – Configure Site Pairing for both Protected and Recovery Site
  

• Learn SRM – Part 8 – Configure SRM Array Manager Pairing

• Learn SRM – Part 9 – Configure Resource Mapping in VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 10 – Create Placeholder Datastore in VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 11 – Configure Protected Groups in VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 12 – Configure Recovery Plans in VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 13 – Perform Test Drill using VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 14 – Perform Cleanup Activity in VMware SRM
  

• Learn SRM – Part 15 – Perform Cleanup Activity in VMware SRM

Thanks for visiting here. Share if you found it useful.