MX67 VPN Deployment & Licensing

[PhilG]

Hi Team,

I'm actually looking to recreate a network between my central office, working-at-home employees (~10) and a distant office. Using two MX67 with VPN seems to be a nice solution. However, I have some questions :

- Can I order hardware and licences with two different email adresses (for billing purposes), but use them then in the same Meraki Organisation ?
- Does each MX67 need a licence or is one licence enough for the two routers ?

Thank you

[AjitKumar]

Hi @PhilG 

I understand ordering Hardware and Licenses with different email address shall not be a problem. I am not aware of any restriction of licenses not being usable while ordering them on different email address. You should be able add Order Number / Serial Number  in the same organization.

As we have 2 offices .ie We need to create 2 networks under the same organization. This will need us to purchase 2 Licenses. Also it is must that both the license should be of same type (Enterprise or Advance)

[MerakiDave · Accepted solution]

Hi @PhilG yes, you can order hardware and licenses using two different email addresses for your own billing purposes, and you may claim the hardware and licenses into the same Meraki Dashboard organization.

It might also prove helpful to make sure you define both of those email addresses as organization admins on the Organization > Configure > Administrators page.  The important thing is not which email address was used for ordering/shipping, but simply that you use one of your Meraki Dashboard administrator accounts to "claim" the order number into your organization on the Organization > Configure > Inventory page.  Then you would have a network defined for each of the two sites and place one MX67 into each network.  You can create a new network also under the Organization > Configure menu.  

As Ajit also mentioned, you will need to purchase the same license levels for both sites, because the Meraki licensing exists at the Organization level, not individual networks.  So if you need the Advanced Security license, then the entire Meraki Dashboard organization would be licensed for Advanced Security, so then for two sites you would purchase two MX67 appliances and two Adv Sec licenses.  

If you were going to configure the pair of MX67 appliances as an HA pair in the same network, then you would only need one license, since it would be an active/standby failover pair and only one appliance would be active at any time.  But in two networks you do need two licenses, and they need to both be the same level (Enterprise, Advanced Security, or SD-WAN).  Here is the documentation on the different licensing levels: https://documentation.meraki.com/General_Administration/Licensing/Meraki_MX_Security_and_SD-WAN_Lice...

Hope that helps.