{"id":884,"date":"2012-03-08T17:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.data-protector.org\/wordpress\/?p=884"},"modified":"2015-12-09T22:07:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T21:07:55","slug":"drive-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.data-protector.org\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/drive-licenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive Licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A topic I always receive mails for: Which license is needed for drives when a FC library is used for the backup in a Windows \/ Linux environment and the drive is attached to one (1!) server only? The answer is simple: As long as the drives are not shared by more than 1 server and the feature &#8220;Multipath device&#8221; is not used for the drives in Data Protector, then you can stay with the much more cheaper Windows drive license. In this case this Point to Point connection is not counted as SAN, even if you are connect the library to a SAN switch instead using arbitrated loop.<\/p>\n<p>{:en}<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from the QuickSpecs<\/p>\n<p>In case that multiple systems access the drive in a SAN, the drive extension for UNIX, NAS, SAN (B6953AA) is required. A Fiber Channel point-to-point connection is not considered a SAN.<\/p>\n<p>All the details can be read here: <a href=\"http:\/\/h18004.www1.hp.com\/products\/quickspecs\/11671_div\/11671_div.HTML\">http:\/\/h18004.www1.hp.com\/products\/quickspecs\/11671_div\/11671_div.HTML<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Christian vanHaut, he requested the official answer from HP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A topic I always receive mails for: Which license is needed for drives when a FC library is used for the backup in a Windows \/ Linux environment and the drive is attached to one (1!) server only? The answer is simple: As long as the drives are not shared by more than 1 server [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.8.8","language":"en","enabled_languages":["en","de"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"de":{"title":false,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28cjj-eg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":126,"url":"https:\/\/www.data-protector.org\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/enhanced-automated-disaster-recovery\/","url_meta":{"origin":884,"position":0},"title":"Enhanced Automated Disaster Recovery","date":"6. 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Bleibt zu erw\u00e4hnen das nachfolgende Hinweise f\u00fcr anst\u00e4ndige Hardware - HP - gelten. Wenn man gezwungen\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;HowTo&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":313,"url":"https:\/\/www.data-protector.org\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/eadr-mit-windows-2008-r2\/","url_meta":{"origin":884,"position":2},"title":"EADR with Windows 2008 R2","date":"21. January 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"{:de}In einen fr\u00fcheren Artikel hatte ich \u00fcber die Wiederherstellung eines Windows 2003 Servers mit Data Protector berichtet. Nachdem Windows 2008 auch immer mehr in Rechenzentren betrieben wird zeige ich nachfolgend die Wiederherstellung eines Windows 2008 R2 Servers mit Data Protector und der Enhanced Automated Disaster Recovery Funktion. 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