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The Citrix provisioning system has a few VMs that handle the fucntion of deleting and re-creating the VMs that reside on the same cluster. Second we have a 50 host/300 VM VMWARE cluster dedicated for Citrix server provisioning (re-creates 300 VMs daily from a golden image).

I had opened case about it and was told it was a known issue with VMWARE. This is a VMWARE issues and not a Veeam issue. Since these servers are part of our host based backups using socket license, they show up in instance licensing but count as 0 not 1. One is for Microsoft SQL Alwayson cluster servers that cannot tolerate snapshots that cause cluster to have issues such as trying to fail back but cannot. We have two scenarios where we were using windows agent backup instead of host based.

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