Re: OT: WAAS Licensing Confusion

Zeeshan,
As far as I remember, on NMEs - Enterprise license was only required for
CIFS (File/Print servers) and acceleration of some specific applications
like Oracle suites/SSL/HTTP and so on... Expensive but in most cases
required.

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Sincerely,
Shawn Zandi
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On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Zeeshan Sanaullah <
zeeshansanaullah_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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