How many licenses do I need?
Question / Problem
How many licenses of SpaceObServer do I need?
Answer / Solution
One license of SpaceObServer covers one installation. SpaceObServer can scan mutiple local, network and cloud paths. So, you can install SpaceObServer on one machine to observe multiple volumes. Because of the performance and the workload of this machine and the size and update intervals of the scanned paths it may be neceesary to have more than one instance running. If you are using SpaceObServer in a clustered environment, you need one license per node you install SpaceObServer on. For the correct usage of SpaceObServer on a clustered environment see this FAQ entry.
The performance of SpaceObServer is influenced most by these factors:
- Latency of the connection to the storage
- Performance of the SQL server
- The total number of file and folders
- Frequency of the scans (daily, weekly, monthly)