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Cloud endpoint protection Licencing on VM's

CharlesHobbs

A client is looking at moving to Sophos Clound endpoint protection, as well as a number of laptops, they have three physical servers. One of the physical servers is runnning VMware with 3 or 4 VM's that are runnning 100% of the time, and a handfull of VM's that are stoodup/down as required.

How many endpoint licences do they require? do we need a licence for every configured VM or for every running VM?

Does the Vshield endpoint protection product make any difference to the way licencses are managed (we are not doing any desktop virtualisation, just server).

Cheers

Charles

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    Hi Charles,

    Sophos Cloud is licensed the same way as the user-based on-premises endpoint licenses if you're already familiar with that. This means that:

    1. you need one license per protected user

    2. you need one license per protected server (assuming that the number of servers is less than 25% of the number of users)

    Example: 20 users with 3 servers requires 23 licenses.

    We don't differentiate between currently online and currently offline license usage. For instance, if an employee is on holiday then the customer doesn't drop the license count. The same principle applies to servers that might be on or off; they need to license each one that is protected.

    Note: non-server computers are covered under the user license, so any VMs which are not servers don't matter.

    Sophos cloud doesn't yet manage/license vshield; that's a separate license. We are working on a server protection feature for later this year (aim is around September time) which will add server (computer) based policies and other server related improvements, like help with exclusions. We will bring vshield management into this, but it will very likely be in a later release. All the details are still being worked on (e.g. what the exclusion improvements will be, how licensing will work), but I thought you'd like to know as much advance info as we have right now. 

    Hope that helps,

    Jon

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    Thanks Jon, that does clarify part of the problem... Just wondering about the 25% bit...

    So with theircurrent setup:

    • Users: 7
    • Physical Servers: 4 (2 in London, 1 in France and DEMO PC)
    • Virtual Servers: 25

    They have a lot more than 25% servers to users... How does that affect licence numbers?

    Cheers,

    Charles

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    Until the server protection feature (around September) there isn't a "per server" cloud license (as there is with the on-premises product; note that this costs around 10x a user license).

    So, in the meantime Cloud customers with more than 25% servers to users need to buy additional users to drop the server % below 25% again.

    Using your example, this means that for their 29 servers they need to have 29x4 = 116 user licenses, to be able to add on the 29 servers (= 145 licenses total) while fitting within the 25% rule. The 7 actual users are covered within the 116 licenses for users, so the total remains 145 licenses for your specific example.

    We appreciate this isn't simple or intuitive, so a key part of the server protection feature is to address the licensing mechanism, as we expect it to become much more common to see customers with all/predominantly servers.

    Thanks,

    Jon

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