After you set up VMware Live Site Recovery, you must select a subscription plan.
You can create a VMware Live Recovery subscription for either protected VMs, protected capacity, or both. See Setting Up VMware Live Recovery in the VMware Live Recovery Documentation.
When you create a protected VM or protected capacity subscription, you can choose a one or three year term, and pay the full amount up front, monthly, or as you go with on-demand. Paying the full amount up front saves considerable costs.
When you activate VMware Live Site Recovery your existing Site Recovery Manager license is converted to VMware Live Site Recovery license. You are no longer required to provide Site Recovery Manager license key.
VMware Live Site Recovery Subscriptions and Protected and Recovery Sites
VMware Live Site Recovery requires a subscription on any site on which you protect virtual machines. For more information, see the VMware Live Recovery FAQ.
VMware Live Site Recovery checks for a valid license whenever you add a virtual machine to or remove a virtual machine from a protection group. If licenses are not in compliance, vSphere triggers a licensing alarm and VMware Live Site Recovery prevents you from protecting further virtual machines. Configure alerts for triggered licensing events so that licensing administrators receive a notification by email.
VMware Live Site Recovery Subscriptions Required for Recovery and Reprotect
For example, you have a site that contains N number of virtual machines for VMware Live Site Recovery to protect.
- For recovery, you require a subscription for N number of virtual machines on the protected site to allow one-way protection from the protected site to the recovery site.
- For reprotect, you require a subscription for N number of virtual machines on both the protected and the recovery site to allow bidirectional protection between the sites.
You have two sites that contain N virtual machines each for VMware Live Site Recovery to protect.
- For reprotect, you require a subscription for at least 2xN virtual machines for each site to allow bidirectional protection between the sites.
