Showing posts with label VMware Heartbeat Licensing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VMware Heartbeat Licensing. Show all posts

Tuesday 19 March 2013

VMware vCenter Heartbeat Licensing

VMware Heartbeat Licensing?  It's a tricky question and one I have the answer to.  1 single license (yes that's just ONE) will entitle you to run Heartbeat on a vCenter Server AND a separate MS SQL server.  The caveat being that you are only supposed to protect VMware related databases (this could mean running VMware databases on a separate instance).  The other fact to note that if you have this type of setup, you will have 4 instances of the Heartbeat software running, 1 on the primary vCenter server, 1 on the secondary vCenter server, 1 on the primary Database server and 1 on the secondary Database server.