Migrating over to Subscription Lic

[dwash17]

I posted a question earlier and got the confirmation that you cannot have mixed licensing models under one org. Migrating all our networks over to a subscription model at once would pretty impossible budget wise. Any ideas how I can work around this? I've reached out my Cisco reps, but I think they all are at the yearly Sales event and I wont hear back for some time, so any ideas would be helpful.

[aleabrahao]

You can spin up a new Meraki organization for the subscription-licensed networks and keep your existing org on co-term until you're ready to fully migrate.
This approach avoids breaking compliance and lets you phase the migration over time.

If your environment is large enough, Cisco sometimes offers Enterprise Agreements (EA) that allow flexible licensing pools.

[mloraditch]

Are you on co-term right now or PDL?

It sounds like PDL based on your budget comment as Co-Term you have to renew everything all at once and subscription pricing is pretty similar to doing a co-term renewal based on my recent analysis.

The only technical work around would be splitting your org up. That would just make management more difficult, and if you use AutoVPN to any extent, migrating to third party vpns could also be painful.

I do highly suggest talking to the reps. There are financial things they have the ability to do and could help make the math work to migrate everything. Technically you can only switch an org when everything is expired, but support has the ability to pull all of your licenses, so I would think the AM team may be able to work something out.

Also if you are large enough an EA Subscription might work for you and there is further flexibility there, but again have to talk to your account team.

[Philip D'Ath · Accepted solution]

Ask for a credit for your current outstanding PDL licensing. Have that credit applied towards a new subscription licence. You may also be able to request a monthly payment option.

When you get your new subscription licence, raise a support ticket. Explain that you have new subscription licences, and that you need the existing PDL licences cancelled so you can apply it.