MDS in High Availability and domains licensing

[Aroma2118]

Hi,

We are setting up MDS environment in HA (active/standby). We will have 5 separate domains.

The question is will we need one license that covers 5-domains or two CPSB-DMN-5  licenses for each physical MDS server?

Regards,

[Chris_Atkinson]

Each machine will require its own domain license for the necessary quantity.

Refer also sk39345

[Aroma2118]

It means that the official Support AI is not providing correct information when the same question was asked?

This is the reply:

You do not need two separate domain licenses for each Multi-Domain Server in a High Availability (HA) environment.

How Domain Licensing Works in MDS HA

• Domain licenses are associated with the domains (CMAs), not with the physical Multi-Domain Servers (MDS) themselves.
• When you set up Multi-Domain Security Management in HA, you have a Primary MDS and one or more Secondary MDS.
• The domain licenses are installed and managed centrally, and are distributed to all relevant servers in the HA environment.