Hi Ian,

As I understood IBM will make an different offer for each customer so that 
there is a (short term) profit. However on the long term you will pay more to 
IBM imho since data will grow faster than the number of cores in your servers. 
After all hardware replacement is done once every 4 years or later on.

The only advantage is that the capacity based licensing is more easy to 
calculate than the PVU based.

Regards,
Kurt



-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] Namens Ian 
Smith
Verzonden: maandag 16 juli 2012 13:13
Aan: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Onderwerp: Re: [ADSM-L] Moving to TSM Capacity based licensing from PVU - 
experiences

Hi,

We are in the midst of discussions on moving to capacity-based licensing from 
the standard PVU-based method for our site. We have a large number of clients ( 
licensed via TSM-EE, TDP agents, and on client-device basis ) and around 1PB of 
primary pool data. As I understand it, there is no published metric for the 
conversion from PVU to per TB licensing so I would be really interested and 
grateful if anyone would like to share their experiences of that conversion in 
a private email to me.

Many thanks in advance.
Ian Smith
Oxford University
England
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