"Cold" Backups for Disaster Recovery
The Microsoft Software Assurance "Cold" Backups for Disaster Recovery benefit helps your organization be prepared when disaster strikes by protecting and preserving mission-critical IT solutions in disaster recovery situations. With this benefit, you have access to an online backup server (a "cold" server, or one that is turned off until an emergency situation) that can be moved into production so that users can continue to access critical data and applications. This enables you to respond quickly to a disaster, minimizing the overall impact to your systems and helping you protect business information. Customers with Software Assurance for qualifying server products and related Client Access Licenses (CALs) are eligible for complimentary server licenses for those products for disaster recovery.
Eligibility
For each server license covered by Software Assurance, you are entitled to run one instance of the software on a "cold" server for disaster recovery purposes.
The following Volume Licensing programs are eligible for this benefit:
| • | Open License |
| • | Select License |
| • | Open Value |
| • | Open Value Company-wide |
| • | Open Value Subscription |
| • | Select License Software Assurance Membership |
| • | Enterprise Agreement |
| • | Enterprise Subscription Agreement |
Getting Started
To learn more about this benefit or to obtain "cold" backup server licenses, contact your Microsoft partner or Software Assurance Benefits Administrator.
Learn More
Software Assurance Support Benefits Datasheet
(Portable Document Format file, 476 KB)
Download this datasheet to learn more about "Cold" Backups for Disaster Recovery and other benefits that can help provide technical support for your organization.
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