31 Servers, The EBS Way
Ever wonder how many servers can exist in an Essential Business Server environment?
To be honest, as many as you want. The sky’s the limit…until you start talking about actually managing those servers using EBS and SCE.
Since SCE requires a server management license AKA SML for each server OS instance it manages, that imposes a hard limit of 30 SMLs.
In the box, EBS ships with a certain number of SMLs included, depending on which flavor of EBS you have:
- Standard = 12 SMLs
- Premium = 15 SMLs
The Management Server, which hosts the SCE instance for EBS, doesn’t require an SML. But the Security and Messaging servers DO use up 1 SML each. Same goes for Premium’s extra server.
So, once you take out the overhead SML cost of each version, here’s the number of usable SMLs you have left:
- Standard = 12 SMLs – 2 = 10 SMLs free
- Premium = 15 SMLs – 3 = 12 SMLs free
And if you need more than that, you can add SMLs up to the max of 30.
So how do you get a max of 31 managed servers?
Since the server hosting SCE doesn’t require an SML, you actually get a +1 freebie. As in the SCE server itself gets managed by SCE gratis.
In EBS, the Management Server is the +1 freebie, at least as far as SCE is concerned.
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