Okay what you are talking about is taking a physical machine that crashes. You take your backup restore to a Virtual machine correct??? Jon Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 11:12:59 +0000 From: [email protected] To: [email protected]
Hi At the moment we have nothing in place, So am just looking at options available, The hope was we could restore the faulty machine to Hyperv host that will have 2008 server on and run them for upto 3 days, until the old hardware was fixed, or a replacement ordered we have a DR contract that could run the machine for longer but this will be a short term Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:[email protected] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jon Harris Sent: 28 January 2014 10:21 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines Then how are you licensing your DR machine? Jon Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 10:14:07 +0000 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Hi Your first Option is correct The Dr machine will only be live when the Physical machine is down; due to hardware failure Of course because we are buying the license as an oem with the server I believe if the motherboard fails then the license also is dead! And not transferable Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:[email protected] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jon Harris Sent: 28 January 2014 09:28 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines Licensing is something to take up with Microsoft but it sounds like maybe the original will be offline due to failure when the DR is live but if you are talking about a Hot DR you will need separate licensing for the host machines and possibly the virtual machines as well. Jon > Subject: [NTSysADM] Virtual machines > Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 09:10:30 +0000 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Hi > Looking for option for Disater recovery > We use backupexec that can create hyperv machines and they work faultlessly > > Also thinking about not spending money unless we have to! > > The hyper v machines with 2008 comeback however they need re licensing, from the test we have completed they work ok for a day However is there a way to transfer the licence (I don't want to break any licensing agreements) so if it means we have to buy another x number of 2008 server licenses then that's what we will do, it would be just to run the machine as a virtual machine for as long as it needs to repair the hardware and have the machine back up and running physically. > > Having mirrored servers would be out as the cost would be to high > All servers have a 24 hour 4 hour response > Some are older servers running proprietary software so they are windows 2000 these come back no problem > > Would something like veam be able to transfer the physical license to a virtual machine and then back or is this breaking licensing agreements with Microsoft > > Again I don't want to break any licensing agreements but have to do this "cheaply" > The backup software we have creates the virtual machines and works fine, they restore to physical or virtual servers without problems, just the licensing > > OR > How long can I legally run a transferred 2008 server, do you get 30 days? If so this would be more than enough to have the hardware back up, > > Nigel Parker > Systems Engineer > Ultraframe (UK) Ltd > Tel: 01200 452329 > Fax: 01200 452201 > Web: www.ultraframe.com > Email: mailto:[email protected] > > > > Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. > > The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. > This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is sent out only for intended recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and unlawful. > > > Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. 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