How the CTERA Portal License Works

The CTERA Portal license specifies license quotas for each of the following:

• CTERA Portal License
  The amount of storage allowed, in blocks of 50TB.
  The storage considered towards the licensed storage allowed is the data existing in the current snapshot for all cloud and backup folders before deduplication and compression.
• CTERA Virtual Gateway Licenses
  The number of CTERA Virtual Gateway licenses that can be provisioned. A CTERA Virtual Gateway license is consumed by a CTERA Virtual Gateway, H-Series or X-Series gateway connected to a CTERA Portal user account.
• CTERA Drive Server (or Server Agent) Licenses
  The number of CTERA Drive Server licenses that can be provisioned. A CTERA Drive Server license applies to a CTERA Agent installed on a Windows or Linux server.
• CTERA Drive Protect (or Workstation Backup) Licenses
  The number of CTERA Drive Protect licenses that can be provisioned. A CTERA Drive Protect license allows Cloud Backup of a single desktop or laptop machine.
  Note

  The CTERA Drive Protect license includes the Cloud Backup Service only. For file sync and share services, a Cloud Drive license is required.
• CTERA Cloud Drive Licenses
  The number of Cloud Drive licenses that can be provisioned. Each CTERA Cloud Drive license enables use of the Cloud Drive service for a single user account.
• CTERA Cloud Drive Connect Licenses
  The number of Cloud Drive Connect licenses that can be provisioned. This license is a subset of the full Cloud Drive license and entitles a user per license to access the portal without full sync and share capabilities. This is useful for users who do not need to collaborate on shared documents and folders with other users, for VDI users, for mobile users, and for access after an edge filer disaster (disaster recovery).

The license is subdivided when you allocate quotas to virtual portals, by assigning the virtual portals to global plans and add-ons. For example, if the CTERA Portal license includes 20 Virtual Gateway licenses, 20 workstation backup licenses, 20 server agent licenses, and 20 cloud drive licenses, and there are two virtual portals, you may choose to allocate half of the Virtual Gateway, workstation backup, server agent, and cloud drive quotas to each virtual portal. In this case, each virtual portal is allocated quotas for 10 Virtual Gateways, 10 workstation backups, 10 server agents, and 10 cloud drives.

With each virtual portal, the CTERA Portal license can be further subdivided, when quotas are allocated to user accounts via plans and add-ons. For example, if a virtual portal is allocated quotas for 10 Virtual Gateways, 10 workstation backups, 10 server agents, and 10 cloud drives, and there are up to ten user accounts, the reseller portal owner may choose to define a plan that includes quotas for 1 Virtual Gateway, 1 workstation backup, 1 server agent, and 1 cloud drive. These quotas are then allocated to the user accounts in the virtual portal. The following figure shows an example of what a CTERA Portal license might include and how its quotas might be divided.