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Re: license costs
2004-12-16 10:47:13
Well said, Rick. And a downside to this (new in 2004 i think) TSM way of
licensing, where you actually end up having to pay MORE: If you have an
8-processor Windows server for each of 50 different applications in your
business (sort of the opposite of consolidation) .
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Richard Rhodes
Sent: Thu 12/16/2004 8:13 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: license costs
>You can't. To be short, you need 1 license / cpu for the servers. OS
doesn't
>matter. The license count on the server is based on the number of active
>nodes. So the number of license you have to buy have nothing to do with
the
>numer reported by the TSM server.
Here is an example of how TSM nodes may not match licensing.
We are implementing VMWare - consolidating on average 8 windows servers
onto one blade/vmware server. When we checked with IBM, we were told that
TSM pricing is per cpu - the number of Win instances doesn't come into it
at all. Our TSM server still sees all the individual Windows nodes, but
for licensing we only have to count a fraction of them. The interesting
result of this is having lots of extra licenses right now.
Rick.
Stef Coene
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On Tuesday 14 December 2004 19:37, Muthyam Reddy wrote:
> ** High Priority **
>
> Hi ,
> present we are taking AIX/DB2 backups to tsm and whenever I add new AIX
> client I update server license .
> Soon we re planning to take NOVEL,NT client backups tsm.
> Do I need to buy extra license for other client backups, NOVEL and NT?
> How to check existing License term on TSM server?
You can't. To be short, you need 1 license / cpu for the servers. OS
doesn't
matter. The license count on the server is based on the number of active
nodes. So the number of license you have to buy have nothing to do with
the
numer reported by the TSM server.
Stef
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