ActiveImage Protector Use Case
1. Irregular Cases
Standby machine, a duplicate of an active machine, is deployed
Standby machine, a duplicate of an active machine, is deployed.
The standby machine, even when normally powered off, is a switch over for the active machine in the event of emergency, you need to purchase 2 licenses, one for the active and standby machines.
Migrate data from disk to disk and connect the disk to a different computer
Migrating a system from a hard disk on a computer with ActiveImage Protector installed to another machine using the Disk-to-Disk copy feature, requires an addition license.
For example if you copy a system disk and then connect it to a different machine for operation, you need to purchase additional ActiveImage protector licenses
Backing up network shared folders
There are no limitations when targeting network shared files or folders for backup from a licensed ActiveImage Protector environment, you can back them up. (Excluding Desktop and Linux Editions)
NOTE : This is only for file backup.
2. License migration between Physical-Virtual Environments
Migration of a license from physical to physical
When migrating an ActiveImage Protector licensed physical server to a new physical server, the license is valid to use on the migrated server on the condition that the migration source server shall be disposed of.
If the migration source server is running in parallel, please purchase a subscription license for the parallel operation of the migration source server.
Virtualization of physical machine
No ActiveImage Protector license required for migrated servers
By purchasing one license of ActiveImage Protector Virtual for a single hypervisor host of the migration destination, it is possible to migrate any number of physical servers to that host without licensing limitations.
When operating a source server in parallel with the virtual license, a subscription license is required for parallel operation.
ActiveImage Protector license applied to physical servers
When you have licensed copies of ActiveImage Protector on migration source physical servers, migration of the ActiveImage Protector licenses is allowed on the condition that immediately following the migration the source physical servers will be disposed.
The ActiveImage Protector features available in virtual environment are mostly equivalent to ActiveImage Protector 2022 Server’s features, and the features included with ActiveImage Protector 2022 Virtual will not be available.
In case of parallel operation of the source physical and migrated virtual machines, please purchase subscription licenses.
Physical machine redundancy
When using a licensed copy of ActiveImage Protector’s vStandby to create a redundant system on a physical or virtual server, the virtual machine is created with ActiveImage Protector installed. When using the standby system if you do not depose of the physical server, please purchase an additional server license for the standby virtual machine. If the licensed copy is ActiveImage Protector 2022 Virtual installed on a hypervisor on which the standby server is configured, you do not need to purchase an additional license.
3. Migration / Dispose / Redundancy of Virtual Machine
Migration of Virtual Machine
If you have ActiveImage Protector Virtual license
Migration of an ActiveImage Protector Virtual license to the new target host is allowed on condition that you dispose of the migration source hypervisor host.
Please purchase a subscription license for the existing hypervisor host, if operating in parallel on both hypervisor hosts,
If you do not have an ActiveImage Protector Virtual license
A licensed copy of ActiveImage Protector Virtual is applied to migration target hypervisor host. There are no restrictions on the number of source virtual servers to migrate to the single licensed migration target hypervisor host.
However, this license does not cover the migration source machine. You need to use BE media for creating the backup image of the source machine, or otherwise please purchase a subscription license.
On a hypervisor licensed with ActiveImage Protector 2022 Virtual there is no limitation to the number of virtual servers that can be migrated to that host. This does not include migration source backup. A separate subscription license is required if performing backups of unlicensed source system.
Dispose of the virtual machine on the same hypervisor host
－ActiveImage Protector Virtual on a hypervisor host－
One ActiveImage Protector Virtual license includes unlimited guest OSes and so the replacement of a virtual machine on the same licensed host is within the scope of the license and no additional license is required.
Virtual machines redundancy
ActiveImage Protector Virtual is license per host. When performing a virtual machine redundancy operation from a licensed host to a different host using vStandby, an ActiveImage Protector Server license (or higher) is required on the destination.
When doing redundancy operations on multiple system to different host, an ActiveImage Protector Virtual license is required on the new host, alternatively an ActiveImage Protector license can be purchased for each system moved to the new host.
Additional license if also required when creating redundant systems using V2V.
4. HCI / On-premise / Cloud /Agentless backup
Use backup files to deploy redundant virtual machines
When creating redundant virtual machines with image backup files using ActiveImage Protector / vStandby / HyperStandby, if the original machine is not discarded, a separate ActiveImage Protector license is required for the standby machine.
HCI Environment
On HCI environments, ActiveImage Protector 2022 Virtual licenses is required on all configured hypervisors.
If a virtual machine is migrated to an unlicensed hypervisor, backups will not be possible.
Machine migration between on premise and cloud
When migrating an environment from an on premise location to either AWES or Azure, in order to preform backup/recovery operations in the cloud environment an ActiveImage protector cloud license is required.
Vice versa when moving a machine on a cloud service to an on-premises environment, an on-premises license, such as ActiveImage Protector 2022 Server/Virtual, is required.
Cluster environments configured with three or more nodes
Additional node licenses are required for cluster environments having 3 or more nodes in the same group.
Additional node licenses cannot be activated on different cluster groups.
Redundancy of virtual machines backed up using agentless backup
When performing agentless backup of virtual machines using HyperAgent, ActiveImage Protector is not installed on the virtual machines and is not contained in backup image files.
Therefore, no additional license is required even when a redundant machine is created with HyperStandby.
However, when backing up a redundant virtual machine, if the hypervisor of the redundant machine is unlicensed a separate license is required.
5. License migration between Hypervisor hosts
Migration of ActiveImage Protector License between virtual machines
When replacing virtual machines on hypervisor host licensed with ActiveImage Protector Virtual, no additional license is required.
When agent-based backup requires installation of ActiveImage Protector 2018 and 2022 agents to support different OSs, no additional license is required.
When migrating a hypervisor host which licensed with ActiveImage Protector, if the migration source is operated in parallel for a period of time, the license applied to the source host is migrated to the new host and the license becomes invalid on the source host.
In order to operate the migration source host and target host in parallel, please purchase ActiveImage Protector subscription license.
6. Backing up HyperAgent
Backing up a hypervisor host machine on which HyperAgent is installed
When using ActiveImage Protector Virtual, for product key activation and virtual guest backup at least one machine that connect to the host must have HyperAgent installed.
When HyperAgent is installed on a host or on a virtual machine on that host, you can perform backup of the HyperAgent itself up to the number of owned licenses.
When installing HyperAgent on virtual machines configured on a different hypervisor host or physical server for agentless backup, agent-based backup of the hypervisor hosts on which HyperAgent is installed is allowed for the number of ActiveImage Protector 2022 Virtual licenses you have.
NOTE : If you do not back up by using HyperAgent, you are not allowed to back up the hypervisor host machine on which HyperAgent is installed.
7. Actiphy Boot Environment Builder and ActiveImage Protector IT Pro
Restrictions on the use of BE media created by using Actiphy Boot Environment Builder
BE media created by using Actiphy Boot Environment Builder included in ActiveImage Protector is allowed to boot up the system and use on the machine which ActiveImage Protector license is applied.
Linux-based boot media can be used only on Windows / Linux OS machine, while Windows PE/RE-based boot media can be used in Windows OS licensed environment (every features including System Recovery / Cold Backup / File Recovery are supported.)
Licensed use of ActiveImage Protector IT Pro
For one year, a single IT Technician is licensed to perform unlimited backups on virtual or physical servers and desktop PCs.
There are no restrictions on the number of machines that the technician can backup / restore / migrate.
However, the licensed IT Technician is not allowed to create multiple copies of boot media for use at the same time.
The licensed IT Technician is not allowed to lend or transfer the license to other engineers.
