Rapid Recovery License Portal 6.0.1


	NOTE: Depending on your license pool settings and group types, you might see four categories of License Pool information, including information about licenses allocated for physical and virtual machines or capacity-based licensing. Therefore, this page can potentially display a Total License Pool, Physical License Pool, Virtual License Pool, or Capacity License Pool.

For Software Capacity/appliance groups, the License page also shows license constraints. For appliance-based licensed Cores, you will only see the constraints for total repository size.

For more information about license pools and how licenses are allocated among groups, see the topic, Understanding License Pools.

For information about changing license pools for subgroups, see the topic, Changing the License Pool for Software Groups.

Changing the License Pool for Software Groups

As business drivers change, you can reallocate software licenses between subgroups as needed. Two things to consider when redistributing license pools are:

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You cannot reduce the size of the license pool to a number that is less than the sum of the combined and allocated group and subgroup licenses.

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You cannot reduce the license pool to a number that is less than the sum of the license pool for subgroups.The maximum value for the license pool for a subgroup is calculated in the same way.

For more information about license pools and license pool consumption, see the topic, Understanding License Pools.


	NOTE: Only users with administrative rights can change license pools for a subgroup. An administrator can edit license settings at the root group only when adding a new license number.

To change the license pool

Ensure that the group for which you want to modify the license pool is currently selected.

On the Licensing page, in the License Pool menu, select and configure one of the following options as needed.

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Reserve - Specify a number of licenses to hold in reserve for the group. This number cannot exceed the number in the parent group.

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Draw from Parent - (For subgroups) Select this option to allocate licenses from the available licenses in the parent group.

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Disabled - Select this option to disable the license pool. If you select this option, you will not be able to add agents to the group, and licenses cannot be consumed by this group. An agent would be added with a trial license in this case.

Click Apply Changes.

Allocating Virtual and Physical Licenses for MSPs

If you have an MSP license type for a software group and have a limited number of virtual and physical machine licenses, you can reallocate the number of licenses reserved for virtual and physical machines as needed. You can adjust the licenses at the root group level only. For more information about license pools and license pool consumption, see the topic, Understanding License Pools.


	NOTE: Only users with administrative rights can change license pools and allocate licenses. An administrator can edit license settings at the root group only when adding a new license number.

To adjust the number of licenses reserved for physical and virtual licenses

Ensure that the root group is selected.

In the left navigation area of the License Portal, click Licensing.

Do one of the following to adjust license allocation:

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In the Physical License drop-down and/or in the Virtual License drop-down, specify a number for the Reserved license count.

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Using the slider, move the slider to adjust the number of licenses to allocate to virtual or physical licenses. Moving the slider left allocates more virtual licenses; moving the slider right allocates more physical licenses.

Changing the License Type for a Subgroup

Complete the following steps to change the license type for a subgroup. For more information about the available license types, see the topic, About AppAssure Software License Types.


	NOTE: Only users with administrative rights can change license types for a subgroup. An administrator can edit license settings at the root group only when adding a new license number.

To change the license type for a subgroup

Ensure that the group for which you want to modify the license type is currently selected.

On the Licensing page, in the License Type drop-down, select Enterprise, Trial, or Subscription.

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For a Subscription license type, you can click Never Expires or click Expires On to select an expiration date.

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To apply the Subscription license type to all related subgroups, click Apply to all subgroups.