Re: OT: WAAS Licensing Confusion

Hi,

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Zeeshan Sanaullah
<zeeshansanaullah_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> If anybody has some experience with WAAS please help me

OK, but this is off-topic, so please mark your message as such by
prefixing the subject with OT:

> What is the Central Manager License used for ?

The Central Manager is a required element of a WAAS deployment. It's a
separate WAE that provides management functionality for the deployed
WAEs. It's non-optional, and for any serious deployment, I really
wouldn't recommend 'getting rid of it'.

> I
> have 6 Sites. 1 DataCenter 1 DR Site and 4 Branches. At Datacenter and
> DR Site we have WAE-674 and at Branches we have NME-302 and NME-502.
> If I purchase Enterprise License for all products do we still need central
> manager license.

You need 7 WAEs, minimum -- 1 x Central Manager WAE with a Central
Manager license and 6 x Application Accelerator WAEs with either
Transport or Enterprise licenses. If you want application-layer
acceleration (e.g. CIFS, HTTP/S, EPM), you need 'Enterprise'
functionality. Without it you get the TCP optimisations and the DRE
cache, but nothing more intelligent than that. This can still make a
big difference, depending on the active protocols on your network.

> While
> using Dynamic Config Tool there was a note that with WAAS 4.1 , the
> Enterprise License will include Central Manager License ?

I think you'll find 'Transport' and 'Central Manager' licenses are $0
line items. I could be wrong, but that's my recollection. 'Enterprise'
and 'Video' (which has 'Enterprise' as a pre-requisite) cost extra. In
your case, it would be a waste of money to buy 7 x 'Enterprise'
licenses as the Central Manager WAE can't and won't perform the
functions enabled with the 'Enterprise' license.

The WAAS licensing model is currently based on an honour system. There
are no activation keys to add functionality through licenses.

cheers,
Dale

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Received on Sat Nov 21 2009 - 21:45:01 ART