Licensing during a planned fail-over migration

[Miike]

Hi all,

I've been digging for a solution but haven't had much luck so far. Knowing that the target replication environment doesn't need additional licensing, I'm looking to wrap my head around transitioning the backups during the process and keeping licensing happy.

Currently planning to migrate with planned fail-over between two VMware clusters with different SANs, all Veeam socket licenses are consumed and used on the production legacy cluster. I'd rather not big bang everything, planned fail-over has worked great in the past with sufficient licensing.

Could a legacy individual host in the cluster have it's licensed removed post VM fail-over so this can be allocated to an active host in the new cluster to facilitate backups in the environment? I am thinking this may only be possible if we remove 33% of the load and evict a host from the cluster?

Is this possible, or are additional licenses required during the transition?

Thanks!

[HannesK]

Hello,
and welcome to the forums.

Can revoke license maybe help you?


Best regards,
Hannes

[Miike]

Thanks Hannes,

Would this work if the host is still in the cluster through vCenter but not actively participating with running VM's i.e. in maintenance mode so the VM's are never on the host for backups? Would be great if I don't need to evict the host to keep everything happy!

Appreciate your response!

[HannesK]

Hi,
yes - that works. You don't even need maintenance mode. You just must not backup from that host.

Best regards,
Hannes

[Miike]

Perfect, thanks again HannesK

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