VMware SRM Licensing

[Marcobraw]

I have 2 standard SRM licenses to cover 50VMs however my usage has exceeded to 75VMs. The 75VMs are all in protection groups. Am I able to failover all the 75VMs to my DR with my current licenses?

Some VMware information on VM based licensing seems to suggest I can. Please advise...

https://www.vmware.com/latam/support/support-resources/licensing/per-vm.ht

[ashilkrishnan]

Hi @Marcobraw ,

SRM license usage is based on the number of VMs you have protected. If you have exceeded the capacity, modifying properties of these VMs in SRM or performing a failover will report licensing related errors.

If you have 2 x 50 VM licenses, I would suggest combining them to a single 100 VMs license and applying the same license at both sites.

Hope that helps.

[Marcobraw]

Thank you ashilkrishnan for your response.

• If the average usage over time exceeds 150 VMs, you will receive an alert through VMware vCenter Server, but will be able to continue managing the environment without restrictions.

Perhaps for my understanding, are you able to advise at what point the above apply? That is in the event you exceed your capacity.

[ashilkrishnan]

@Marcobraw ,

If you are referring this document --> https://www.vmware.com/latam/support/support-resources/licensing/per-vm.html , this seems more of cost and billing related document.

This is a very old document and the license which you have is for per-vm and is the current model. This is the document for latest FAQs on SRM license --> https://core.vmware.com/resource/site-recovery-manager-faq .

[vFouad]

Please note you are running SRM Standard... There is a 75 VM limit on that version

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2000394

you will need to upgrade to SRM enterprise to support more than 75 VMs.