We're in that boat too. We have a GPFS cluster we expect to grow into
the petabyte range, so unless IBM sets the per-byte cost *really* low
we'll get hammered with that licensing scheme.

Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote:
> Or more costly.  We have test VM servers with quad-core processors running
> 15-VM guests.   If I started counting by T-Bytes backed-up, it would cost
> a lot more than 4-CPU's!
>
>
>
> From:
> David Longo <David.Longo AT HEALTH-FIRST DOT ORG>
> To:
> ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Date:
> 09/25/2009 03:22 PM
> Subject:
> Re: [ADSM-L] Per terabyte licensing
> Sent by:
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
>
>
> Haven't heard that.
> My first thought is that it would make licensing
> a LOT easier to figure out!
>
> David Longo
>
>>>> Thomas Denier <Thomas.Denier AT JEFFERSONHOSPITAL DOT ORG> 9/25/2009 3:09 
>>>> PM
>>>>
>>>>
> Within the last few months there was a series of messages on counting
> processor cores. A couple of the messages stated that TSM is moving to
> licensing based on terabytes of stored data rather than processor
> cores. Where can I find more information on this?
>
>
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