One; licensing is by physical cores.  Throw up as many VM clients as you
want; you still just pay for the cpus (cores) on the physical box.

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:18 PM, cpreston <tsm-forum AT backupcentral DOT 
com>wrote:

> Kelly Lipp wrote:
> >
> >
> > Most folks are using the TSM Client/Agent within the VM to do backups.
> > Cool and you have to love the licensing on that: one client/agent
> > license (with the appropriate cores figured, naturally) per ESX Server.
> > VMs don't crap out often so DR is minimal, but it is relatively
> > straightforward: rebuild the VM and then reconstitute it with data from
> > TSM.
> >
> >
>
>
> Kelly,
>
> What about TDP licensing in this model?  Is IBM licensing those via
> physical or virtual CPUs?  (e.g.  Assuming 5 Oracle servers running inside
> VMs on a single-CPU ESX box, am I paying for one CPU or FIVE CPUs?)
>
> TIA
>
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