We have a third party vendor with our company that is asking a particularly weird question which honestly I don't know where he got this information, and I need some advice rather than just throwing a ticket at it which I don't think it requires one.
We are trying to migrate a lot of our backups process from tape to Nimble environments or Storage Arrays, and some of the big backups that we're doing to the storage arrays are virtual snapshots of our VM environments from our VMware. This vendor, which is not affiliated with Commvault, is stating that Commvault capability of doing VM snapshots is technically not counting towards licenses within Commvault because it is capable of providing backups of its snapshots free of service within Commvault which doesn't count towards our license.
Is this true?
For me I was told from the get-go that anything that we back up with in the Commvault environment will have a charge per terabyte whether it be file level system backups, virtual snapshot backups, sequel database backups, exchange database backups, Etc. now this is back in 2017 when we were told all this so I don't know if things have changed but any input on this information would be greatly appreciated.
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