TSM client licenses and VM Environment

[spiffy]

Hi all,
Hoping someone can answer this question, as i am not sure

I have 8 IBM xSeries 3850s with 8 cores each (4 dual core chips in each machine)
This computes to 400 Value units per server. ( 3200 total VU's) only for BA Client license.

These servers are the VMware Host environment. There are 2 servers set up in here that are Microsoft Exchange servers. The exchange servers can dynamically switch between the 8 servers at any given time.
Question - Do i need to purchase TDP for Exchange licenses for all 8 servers seeing that they bounce back and forth? I assume I cant just buy the licensing for the 2 instances of Exchange and have it follow wherever exchange bouces to in the VM Cluster?
Also have some TDP for SQL on this environment and assume all 8 servers need licensed individually too.

My first guess is i need to have these 8 servers all licensed with the BA Client License, the TDP for SQL and Exchange license
Let me know what you think

Thanks
James

 

[THE_WIPET]

HI
i'm in the same situation and from what i've undertand talking with my rep. Correct me if i'm wrong. You have 2 exchange server. So you need to cover 2 physical box if they do not run on the same server. So 2X 4XDUALCORE same thing for you SQL. If you have 8 SQL server you need 8X 4XDualcore and if you have 20 SQL server it's still 8X 4Dualcore. Cause 8 is your maximum phisical server. But if you have 6 SQL server it will be 6X 4DUALCORE. This cover that fact that You can have an SQL server running on 6 different machine.

Cheers!