CHAPTER 5
Managing Licenses
The Acronis Cyber Infrastructure appliance is licensed for two types of deployments:
• Hybrid cloud. Comes with a 3-year hardware warranty and requires a subscription for Acronis Backup
Cloud. After 3 years, the hardware warranty needs to be renewed for another 1 or 3 years.
For this deployment type, you will need to install a SPLA license as described in
(page 20).
• Private cloud. Comes with a 3-year license for Acronis Cyber Infrastructure and hardware warranty.
After 3 years, both the license and warranty need to be renewed for another 1 or 3 years.
For this deployment type, you will need to install a license key as described in
(page 18).
For more details on licensing options, see the
Acronis Cyber Infrastructure supports the following licensing models for production environments:
• License key. Implementing the provisioning model, keys are time-limited (subscription) or perpetual
and grant a certain storage capacity. If a commercial license is already installed, a key augments its
expiration date or storage limit.
• Services provider license agreement (SPLA). SPLA implements the pay-as-you-go model: it grants
unlimited storage capacity and customers are charged for the actual usage of these resources. With
SPLA, Acronis Cyber Infrastructure automatically sends reports to Acronis Cyber Cloud once every four
hours. If no reports have been received for two weeks, the license expires. For reports to reach
destination, the cluster must be able to access the Acronis datacenter that has been used to enable
SPLA. Make sure that TCP port 443 is open.
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