Licensing needed for Virtual SmartZone?

[john_d]

I've got two sites on ZoneDirectors and one on Unleashed, each needing just a few APs but they need Mesh. To add to that complication, one site uses R730s so Unleashed is off the table. I've been evaluating SmartZone on and off and really liking it, and I've got plenty of spare hardware for deploying vSZ.

As my 90 days are coming up, I've started trying to figure out the licensing. From what I can see, I need two basic licenses:

• L09-VSCG-WW00 is the RTU license for the virtual appliance
• L09-0001-SG00 is an AP capacity license per AP

It seems like neither of these are sold without the corresponding support licenses as well.

Does this sound right? It sounds like the support licenses are yearly while the capacity/RTU licenses are buy-once?

Thanks in advance, I usually would work with a VAR on this but I've found that VARs don't really like to process these kinds of complicated orders for small deployments unless I go in with exact SKUs of what I'd like.

[john_d]

@eizens_putnins thank you for clarifying what ongoing support licenses are needed and when they are checked. I definitely want to be able to keep up to date, so I'll have to factor in the cost of maintaining support. I agree Ruckus support has been great (I spent many years on ZD with an active support license), but at the same time as a tech worker who's fairly well versed in wifi technology, I've rarely needed support unless something starts looking like a firmware bug.