My Tivoli S/W rep here in the UK is happy to sell by PVU or per TB.
It sounds like it's not quite made it over the water yet.
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"John D. Schneider" <john.schneider AT COMPUTERCOACHINGCOMMUNITY DOT COM>
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Duane,
I asked our TSM rep this question, and he asked Ron Broucek, the
North America Tivoli Storage Software Sales Leader. His response was:
"just a rumor at this time as we occasionally evaluate pricing
strategies to make sure we're delivering the right value in the
marketplace.
Ron Broucek
North America Tivoli Storage Software Sales Leader"
So if he says it is just a rumor, then how do you know IBM is offering
both? Do you have this from a reliable source within IBM?
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John D. Schneider
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Per terabyte licensing
From: "Ochs, Duane" <Duane.Ochs AT QG DOT COM>
Date: Mon, September 28, 2009 9:07 am
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
We are actually looking into the cost difference.
>From what I understand, IBM is offering both. However, per terabyte
licensing eliminates sub-capacity licensing.
And it is your entire site. Not just where it works out best.
We are in the midst of passport renewals and found an increase due to
core type upgrades.
Previously we had older xeons using 50 PVUs per core. And the new
machines replacing the older ones are either same cores but at xeon 5540
cores which are now 70 PVUs or double the cores.
They brought up per TB licensing. Since then sales has sent me two
E-mails inquiring total number of hosts, total TSM sites and total
library capacity at each.
I was hesitant to say the least.
It's been about a week and I haven't heard back yet. When I hear more
I'll drop a line.
-----Original Message-----
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Skylar Thompson
Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 11:02 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Per terabyte licensing
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
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> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
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>
>
> 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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