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Ghost VAR and Ghost Corp licensing - differences

Learn about the differences between Corporate and VAR licenses for Symantec Ghost software, including deployment limitations, recovery solutions, and licensing implications in various scenarios.

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Ghost VAR and Ghost Corp licensing - differences

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  1. Ghost VAR and Ghost Corp licensing - differences

  2. Introduction • There are only two license types for Symantec Ghost x.x and Symantec Ghost Solution Suite. They are: • Corporate license – a per machine license that allows the customer to create an image or deploy an image to one machine an unlimited number of times • VAR license – a single use license that allows the customer to deploy a single image to a machine once. After this action, the VAR license is consumed. • Also associated with a VAR license is the right to provide a recovery solution. See the following slides for more detail. • DeployCenter Library adopted this approach when it was bought by Symantec – ie, having a corporate and a VAR license.

  3. Corporate License • With corporate licenses, the license is effectively associated with a specific machine. If a customer has 10 licenses, then they are allowed to image/restore a total number of 10 machines. • The customer cannot use the 10 licenses on 100 machines if they only image 10 machines at a time. To image 100 machines, even 10 at a time, they need 100 licenses. • The customer can install a Ghost client onto any machine that has a Ghost license. This client can then connect to a Ghost Console. The customer is not permitted to install a Ghost Client onto more machines than they have licenses for • The only way a Ghost license can be “freed up” is to permanently decommission that machine. To decommission a machine, the hard drive of the machine must be physically wiped, and not used with Ghost again (ie, you can’t just deploy a new Ghost image onto a machine that has been decommissioned).

  4. VAR License • System Integrators/Manufacturers are the principal target of VAR licenses. • The license is a single use license. Once an image has been deployed to a machine, a license is consumed. If the customer then deploys a NEW image to that same machine, another license is consumed. • Eg – if a customer has 100 VAR licenses, they are entitled to deploy 100 images to 100 machines. If they want to then deploy a new image to these machines, they need 100 more licenses.

  5. Disaster Recovery solution • The current Ghost VAR license permits a single disaster-recovery image, along with a modified Ghost executable to be given to the end-user. • This recovery image is the same image that is on the machine – it can’t be a newly created image • Even if a customer onlywants to offer a disaster recovery solution (but doesn’t use Ghost to deploy the initial image), the cost of the recovery solution doesn’t change (ie, just because they don’t choose to deploy an image doesn’t mean that we charge less) • The new Ghost Solution Suite VAR license continues to permit a single disaster recovery image.

  6. Scenario 1 • Customer A wants to build 1,000 new machines for a customer using a specific Ghost image (provided by the end user). • Customer A would need 1,000 GSS VAR licenses. They would deploy the image to all 1,000 machines, consuming the 1,000 VAR licenses. • Customer A would then transfer those machines to the end user. No recovery solution is provided (a decision made by the manufacturer). • The end user may/may not choose to purchase 1,000 corporate Ghost licenses to manage these new machines.

  7. Scenario 2 • Customer B is using Ghost Solution Suite to manufacture 1,000 machines, and wants to provide a recovery disk to their customers for each of the 1,000 machines. • Customer B would need to purchase 1,000 VAR licenses to deploy a single image to the 1,000 machines. • Customer B would then be able to create 1,000 recovery solutions specifically for those 1,000 machines (using the same initial image) to the end user. • The end user will not have any ability to create a new images. Should they wish this functionality, they would need to purchase a Symantec Ghost Solution Suite corporate license. • The end user could then restore their machine back to the factory state.

  8. Scenario 3 • Customer C has 1,000 machines manufactured using some method other than with Ghost, and wants to provide 1,000 recover solutions so that end users can restore back to factory settings • Even though Customer C has not used Ghost to deploy the initial drive layout to each of the 1,000 machines, if they want to use Ghost for a recovery solution, they will need to purchase 1,000 Ghost VAR licenses in order to create a recovery solution for each of the 1,000 machines. • To reiterate – Ghost VAR licenses are required even for a recovery-only scenario.

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