RE: OT: WAAS Licensing Confusion

Hey Dale,

Thanks for the reply. If its a waste of money to buy 7 Enterprise Licenses
then would do I do.
I have two WAE-674 ( one at DC and one at DR ) and NME-WAE-502 Router modules
at 4 Branches. How do I come up with the licensing ?

Do I need one extra WAE-674 with Central Manager License and 6 Enterprise
Licenses for each device

Thanks

Zeeshan

> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:45:01 +1100
> Subject: Re: OT: WAAS Licensing Confusion
> From: dale.shaw_at_gmail.com
> To: zeeshansanaullah_at_hotmail.com
> CC: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
>
> 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
Received on Sat Nov 21 2009 - 20:35:03 ART