2022 Per Socket License End-of-Sale Announcement

This should be interesting to see when that happens and reactions.

Then one of my customers who does not want to change from his socket licenses will have no choice anymore.

Actually, most of my customers who do not want to change the socket licenses in my region.

Most of my customers are using our hosting instance licenses.

Same with us as well.  We use Pulse to issue licenses to many clients. 

How to convince them to migrate the socket licenses to instance licenses in day one?

Exactly This a very comfortable method to manage the licenses. I like it….

And we are implementing VSPC v6 now which makes things even easier with the link to Pulse too. 

Most customers were glad that they had not to care about the backup software licenses by themselves. So it was not much convincing...

In my region, all customers care the number of backup software licenses, especially government and casino.

You don't have to migrate to VUL. Existing licenses can still be renewed, you just can't order new Socket licenses.

Yes, you are right.

This customer is growing and buys more licenses every year. And this will not be possible anymore…

Sorry for being not clear enough 😎

That why, some customers do not want to change the instance licenses.

Apparently I’m the dumb one in the room.  We have 8 CPU socket perpetual licenses for B&R.  We have everything on-prem at 2 locations other than some immutable backups in Wasabi (primary and DR sites) and we have VM’s being replicated over our VPN.  Can someone help me understand what we gain or lose by switching to the new licensing model?  I’ve looked it over multiple times, but it just doesn’t make any sense to me.

You can keep using your existing licenses. You just cannot buy new socket licenses if you need more of them. Then you have to switch to the instance licenses or VUL.

That part I did understand.  What I don’t understand is the pros/cons of switching.  It seems like it is a LOT more expensive (3x) to switch, and I would lose my perpetual CPU licenses.

This depends on your workload. If you have many small VMs per socket with a moderate amaount of sockets in the cluster the VUL or rental licenses can be more expensive than the socket licenses. If you have big VMs and many sockets in your cluster then the VUL and rental licenses are probably cheaper.

Thanks.  We have a few hosts with many VM’s, so it sounds more advantageous to just stick with our socket license - all other things being equal.

As long as you don't need more licenses after June 2022 and your support time you have bought is long enough for your environment you can stick with them.

If you need yomethinh new, then you will have to switch to one of the newer license models. And new functions or products will probably not be licensed with the old socket licenses.

Hi! If I use  Backup and Replication 11 and I change licence from Per Socket License to new concept. Can I need to change backup software?

You can use the same Backup Software - VBR 11. But you will have to count your workloads (VMs, Agents, Plugins,  NAS Backups per 500GB)