How the CTERA Portal License Works
The CTERA Portal license specifies license quotas for each of the following:
• CTERA Virtual Gateway Licenses
This license quota specifies the number of CTERA Virtual Gateway licenses that can be provisioned. A CTERA Virtual Gateway license is consumed by a CTERA Virtual Gateway connected to a CTERA Portal user account.
• CTERA Server Agent Licenses
This license quota specifies the number of CTERA Server Agent licenses that can be provisioned. A CTERA Server Agent is a CTERA Agent installed on a Windows or Linux Server.
• CTERA Workstation Backup Licenses
This license quota specifies the number of CTERA Workstation Backup licenses that can be provisioned. A CTERA Workstation Backup allows Cloud Backup of a single desktop or laptop machine.
Note: The CTERA Workstation Backup license includes the Cloud Backup Service only. For file sync and share services, a Cloud Drive license is required.
• CTERA Cloud Drive Licenses
This license quota specifies the number Cloud Drive licenses that can be provisioned. Each CTERA Cloud Drive license allows the enabling of the Cloud Drive service for a single user account.
This 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 will be allocated quotas for 10 Virtual Gateway, 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.
