About chargeable deployed licenses
A deployed license is chargeable based on factors such as the type of the license, the edition, the version, and the feature set of the license.
When a single license is deployed on a host, that license is always marked as chargeable.
Consider the following situations in which a host has multiple redundant licenses for the same product, but either the version or the edition is different:
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If a host has multiple licenses for the same product with different editions, but same versions, the license with the highest edition is marked as chargeable. For example, if Storage Foundation version 5.0 Standard edition and Storage Foundation version 5.0 Enterprise edition are deployed on the host, then Storage Foundation Enterprise edition is chargeable.
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If a host has multiple licenses for the same product with different versions, but same editions, the version of the corresponding package is considered to mark the license as chargeable. For example, if you have deployed Storage Foundation 5.0 Standard and Storage Foundation 5.1 Standard on one of your hosts, Storage Foundation 5.0 Standard license is chargeable if the VRTSvxvm 5.0 package is installed on the host.
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If a host has multiple licenses for the same product with different versions and different editions, then the license with the highest edition is chargeable. For example, if Storage Foundation version 4.1 Enterprise and Storage Foundation version 5.0 Standard are deployed, then Storage Foundation 4.1 Enterprise is chargeable.
When a host has multiple products deployed, with different versions and different editions, then the license for which product evidence is found is marked as chargeable. Else the product with the highest license is chargeable.
The overlapping of the feature set of the licenses also determines license accountability. For example, if Volume Replicator Standard edition and Storage Foundation High Availability Enterprise edition are installed on a host, then both the licenses are marked as chargeable, and the host is marked as "Host having improper licensing".
All point product licenses, for example ApplicationHA licenses or Database licenses are always chargeable.
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