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Installation and activation

The installation and activation for Double-Take servers is a two-part process. First, you will have to install the software on your servers. Second, you will have to activate your licenses. Choose how you want to install and activate your servers using either of the following methods.

Single server installation and activation—You can install and activate your servers one at a time. In this scenario, you will install Double-Take on one server and then you will activate the license on that server. You can repeat this process for other servers.
Multiple server installation and activation—You can install and activate multiple servers at one time. In this scenario, you will need install Double-Take on all of your servers and then you will activate the licenses for all of the servers at once.

The term installation is being used generically to represent a new Double-Take installation or a Double-Take upgrade.

If you have received an evaluation activation code in order to test Double-Take before purchasing a license, you will not need to perform the activation steps. Your evaluation activation code will automatically disable all Double-Take functionality when the evaluation period expires. You will then need to update to a valid license and go through the activation process.

If you are going to be creating a V to Hyper-V or V to ESX job (see Selecting a protection type for details on which job to create), the job creation process can automatically push the Double-Take installation out to the servers, if you have the Double-Take Availability Virtual Guest Edition license. After the job is created, you will have 14 days to activate the licenses using either the single server method or the multiple server method. If you do not have a Double-Take Availability Virtual Guest Edition license, you will need to perform the installation outside of the job creation process using the single server or multiple servers method.

If you protecting a GeoCluster configuration, where data is stored on volumes local to each node and replicated to each node in the cluster, you should confirm or configure your cluster configuration before beginning the installation. See Configuring your cluster for GeoCluster installation.

See Installation and License management and activation for details on the various installation and license and activation methods.