# Information on licensing for DR Site

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/information-on-licensing-for-dr-site/35296>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [September 25, 2020, 5:59am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/information-on-licensing-for-dr-site/35296 "2020-09-25T05:59:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![julio.leveque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e79b87/32.png) [@julio.leveque](https://forums.suse.com/u/julio.leveque)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 5:59am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/information-on-licensing-for-dr-site/35296/1 "2020-09-25T05:59:17Z")

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Hello,  
Grateful if someone can help me. I have a production site under VMware ESX consisting of 13 VMs running SLES 15 SP1 as guest O/S. I need to have a DR Site that will host 2 of the 13 SLES VMs and I wanted to know if i need to cater for licenses/subscriptions for these 2 VMs. To be noted that these 2 VMs will be passive and will be start manually if the production site fails.  
Thank you.

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**Author:** ![skornegay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@skornegay](https://forums.suse.com/u/skornegay)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 5:07pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/information-on-licensing-for-dr-site/35296/2 "2021-02-17T17:07:22Z")

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Seems like if they are basically clones of one another that a second license would not be needed. Especially if only one was running at a time.