Meraki VMX100 in HA licensing question

SS2023
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Meraki VMX100 in HA licensing question

Hi,

 

Following the link:

Deploying Highly Available vMX in Azure - Cisco Meraki

 

It shows each VM set up in a different zone for HA availability. 

 

When we purchased the licences we were told that we only needed one license as in HA only one instance would be running at a time. Does the different zoning effect this? Could we put both in the same zone for example and still only use one licence? 

 

Thanks!

 

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alemabrahao
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Kind of a big deal

Take a look at this information:

 

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I am not a Cisco Meraki employee. My suggestions are based on documentation of Meraki best practices and day-to-day experience.

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SS2023
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Thanks for your reply. So are we saying that for warm spare both need to be on the same zone? Thanks!

CptnCrnch
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Kind of a big deal

You'll need to license both vMXs, even if they'd be in the same time zone. Only physical MX warm spares don't need their own license.

MyHomeNWLab
A model citizen

Meraki MX (Physical Device) is one license per set (Single Device or Warm-Spare Pair).

 

Meraki vMX (Virtual MX) is one license per device.
Therefore, Availability Zone is irrelevant.
As a reminder, vMX (Virtual MX) does not support Warm-Spare.

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