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Acronis VM protect licencing

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hi for all,
i want to install vmprotect 7 for a customer. he should have only one production ESXi ( 1CPU ) Vsphere essentials and one backup ESXI ( 1 CPU ) also on Vsphere essentials.
the acronis vmprotect applicance will be installed on the backup ESXi.
how many licences are necessary ? the backup ESXi will be "on line" only in case of failure of the production one.

many thanks for your help.

and sorry for my english !

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1 cpu = 1 lilcense

your can replicate to 1 esx without vmprotect and have the backups on the otherserver

in my experience as long as you do not try to backup vm's on the backup esx box then you only need 1 cpu license.
and the vm's that you try to backup or replicate are only backed up there then you are fine.
but a 2 cpu license would still be a good idea as you can then also backup on the backup server and replicate back to anotehr server.

I think that's the case, we just need to keep it offline for the back up. can someone please confirm this?