ActiveImage Protector Use Case

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.

You need to have the valid ActiveImage Protector license for both migration source physical server and target virtual server.

ActiveImage Protector license is valid to use on the migrated server only when ActiveImage Protector is licensed per migration target physical server and also when the migration source server is disposed of.

However, ActiveImage Protector licensed on the migrated virtual server provides the features of ActiveImage Protector Server, and some features of ActiveImage Protector Virtual are not available.

You need to have the valid license for migration operation.

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.

You need to have the valid ActiveImage Protector license for both migration source virtual server and target virtual server.

ActiveImage Protector license is valid to use on the new virtual server only when the migration source server is disposed of.

You need to have the valid license for migration operation on the migration target server.

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.

You need to have the valid ActiveImage Protector license for both migration source physical server and a server on target cloud service.

ActiveImage Protector license is valid to use on the migration target server only when the migration source server is disposed of. You also need to have the valid license for migration operation on the migration target server.

If you do not have a licensed ActiveImage Protector for Virtual Server

You need to have the valid license for both migration source virtual server and target server on cloud service.

If you have a licensed ActiveImage Protector for Virtual Server

When you have an ActiveImage Protector license for Virtual / Server vPack for migration source server, since the license is not valid to use on cloud services, a separate license valid for cloud service is required.

You need to purchase a licensed ActiveImage Protector for Virtual on on-premise virtual server and for Cloud on a server on target cloud service, so that migration between virtual and cloud environments is allowed without the need for replacing the licenses.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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.