Yes  the 3466 comes with 5001 clients.

BUT that being said, it should be noted that the 3466's
IBM configures and supplies could never handle 5000 clients
unless the clients are very small with little changes.
As opposed to large and many chaning files clients

Also pricing of extra (non-tape-media) equipment has this factored in as
well.  (disks, cpus, etc)

... joe.f.



Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley
 Private mail on any topic should be directed to :
   joe.f AT racchio DOT net

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Joshua S. Bassi wrote:

> All,
>
> I have a customer who has plans to backup thousands of small Linux
> boxes.  These boxes will be backed up incrementally until the 100GB
> partition on each is full and then they will perform a full backup.  At
> that time, the client will be decommissioned and not back up any longer.
> Cost is a major issue for this customer.  They cannot afford to buy 1
> client license for each of these tiny hosts.
>
> When the TSM Value Based Pricing model came out, I seem to remember
> hearing that if a client was no longer backing up, after a certain
> amount of time, the client license would be put back into the pool.  I
> have seen this in a couple of accounts where I have come in and upgrade
> the TSM server as well - there were 30 clients defined and only 25 were
> "in use."
>
> My question is: after how many days, will the client stop being "in use"
> and free up a license for reuse?
>
>
> --
> Joshua S. Bassi
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>