Thanks,
I agree. Separate TSM server sounds reasonable. I think IBM may be
deliberately vague in order to make it less tempting for customers to try
something like this.
Hans Chr.
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Zoltan Forray <zforray AT vcu DOT edu> wrote:
> We are on split/dual licensing for the same reason. We have . Yes, we had
> to setup a separate TSM server and moved the PVU licensed nodes there.
> Also we installed ILMT and those on the PVU server have the ILMT agent
> installed.
>
> I never heard anything about separating / isolating the tape library. Can't
> think how that would make sense since the whole point of PVU is that
> storage occupancy doesn't matter and for the other nodes under storage
> licensing, we simply run their queries for primary storage totals. Nowhere
> does it matter where the storage is or how many offsite copies we make.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Bent Christensen <BVC AT cowi DOT dk> wrote:
>
> > Hi Hans Christian,
> > Earlier this year we were considering going from PVU to capacity
> licensing
> > but as 2/3 of our 1 PB primary pool capacity at that time was 'owned' by
> > two nodes only, we asked IBM if we somehow could do both licensing
> schemes.
> >
> > The answer was we would need two Passport Advantage sites and that the
> two
> > servers + TSM server servicing those had to be in a completely separate
> > location, and just moving the servers to our fail-over facility a few
> > hundred meters away from the main facility would not be considered
> > 'separate' enough.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > - Bent
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On
> > Behalf Of
> > Hans Christian Riksheim
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 11:35 AM
> > To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject: [ADSM-L] Mix PVU and Terabyte licensing
> >
> > We are on a volume licensing scheme but we are considering PVU licensing
> > for a new project since the volume/CPU ratio there is very high. As I
> > understand we can do this as long as the two different environments are
> > separate.
> >
> > I haven't yet got a definitive answer on what IBM means by separate
> > environments. It sounds reasonable that the PVU clients must reside on
> > dedicated TSM servers but then I also hear some mumbling about separate
> > libraries as well which would be a drag since we use library sharing.
> >
> > Any comments or experience? We would prefer to be on the safe side here
> > for obvious reasons.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Hans Chr.
> >
>
>
>
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