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If the agent connects to the license server but does not find the acquired license, it tries to acquire

another license. If no license is available, the agent stops doing backups (except for online backups)

until a license is successfully acquired.

By default, the agent tries to connect to the license server every day and keeps working without a

license server for 30 days.

1.4.1 How many licenses do I need?

Assume that your company network includes a server and five workstations running Windows. All

the machines are backed up by the administrator who prefers setting up and monitoring backups

from a single place. Therefore, you consider licenses for advanced editions. A license cost depends on

the operating system the software is installed in.

To protect all the machines, you need:

 Five licenses for Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Workstation

 One license for Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Server or Advanced Server SBS Edition,

depending on the operating system your server is running.

1.4.2 Licensing for virtual machines

Acronis offers a special licensing policy for virtual machines.

 An Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Server license enables the backing up of a physical

host and four virtual machines.

 An Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition license enables backing up a physical host and

an unlimited number of hosted virtual machines. You can install the product into the guest

systems, back them up from the host, or combine both methods.

For a VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V cluster, you need as many licenses as there are

nodes in the cluster.

The following table enables you to define which Virtual Edition license is required for your

virtualization platform.

License name

Virtualization platform