IQ Spiral is a company founded by Brian Williams. The idea behind the IQ and the Spiral is something akin to Intelligent Design mixed with Elegance. That complicated in the micro, should be abstracted to simple in the macro. I think of how nature works and the complexities of wave mechanics or the design of flowers and sea shells. Deep down, it’s all math and complicated, but that which meets our eyes is beautiful.
Another way of thinking of it, is an investment of time and effort packed into a solution that delivers an amazing result. I think of code as like a loaded spring. It’s hard to put that energy in to the system, but once it’s there it releases all at once with all your effort and force upon the object for the result intended.
Hi,
Tried to purchase application from Australia, however payment wont go through due to your form having no item in the “Billing State/Province” field suitable for Australia
Please advise
Checking in to the problem now! Thanks for letting me know!
—Update:
I believe the problem is that the ‘Billing Country’ is not set to Australia. Once that is set, you can choose 1 of the 8 State/Provinces. After selecting that, I found the usual items Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, etc…
Hi Brian,
Just wondering when I might receive the licence file.
Keen to get the application installed
Regards
Taylor
Hi Taylor,
Best I can tell is perhaps a spam filter blocked your license file. Logs indicate the license was sent at 21:46 Central Time US. I have resent from my email address. Hopefully you received that one!
Thanks again,
Brian
Update–
User indicates the license file was received. Issue resolved.
I wanted to know whether we require a license for each Hyper-V server? or can we use 1 licence for multiple? If it is just for 1 server then it will work out very expensive as we have multiple Hyper-V servers.
It is licensed per Hyper-V server, not per VM. How many Hyper-V Servers do you have? One cost saving measure is to license only 1 side of the replication scheme. Thus, if you replicate to a destination server, you can consider licensing only the ‘receiving’ server, though I recommend running the program on both sides.
We have 7 Hyper-V servers and 6 backup servers where the VMs get replicated to. Would we need to monitor both sides or just Primary side?
I typically recommend monitoring the backup side. This monitors the replication health, and also, helps you know if the primaries have failed (as in gone offline). By default the program will send you a daily status report (which I use), to help me know if the service has stopped for some reason or the server has gone down. With daily status reports, you get positive feedback that the reporting is working. In this case you would only need 6 licenses.
Do you offer any discount for 6 licences? or have a trial we can use to test out the product?
Unfortunately, there is no discount as the software is already discounted at the current price. As far as the trial is concerned, the web site gives all the information about how the software works in the “User Guide” section. No one has ever asked for a refund or found that the software does not do what it says it does.
The price is a onetime fee or annual fee? Do you update the software with new features? are they included in the cost?
Hi Sameer, The price is a one time fee for a lifetime license to the current major version. The software has been updated several times (for free) to the feature set it currently has. When there are fixes or minor feature updates they are free. If there were a major re-write, like a new version that did something like a cloud-enabled monitoring of service, with like a dashboard, that would likely be a new version and require an upgrade license. However, at this time, I have no plans to do anything more than just continue to support the current release.… Read more »
You recommended we only need to install it on the backup Hyper-V servers, we don’t need for Primary? or if we were to host all our VMs on a single or maybe 2 or 3 servers, then we could monitor the Primary. What is the advantage of monitoring the backup servers compared to the Primary?
Well, in my opinion, I recommend installing on both Primary and Backup servers. But if I had to choose, due to cost constraints, I would choose only the backup servers to let them monitor the replications they receive. Also, if the primary servers go down for any reason, the replica servers can tell you that. Another reason, might be because you have 5 Primaries replicating to a single Replica server – in this way 1 license would monitor all the VMs it is receiving. But it’s up to you, I can’t make the choice for you, because there could be… Read more »