We recently converted to a special hybrid license that is a combination of
PVU and STG based.  We are ~600TB primary  occupancy (constantly growing)
but have a lot of high-powered multi-processor systems (in research
computing) so it worked out cheaper (per my guy who does licensing) to go
to the STG/SUR licensing for the smaller/non-research systems backups.  The
additional software packages bundled into SUR (no more separate licensing
for TDP products) is an added bonus.

Our hybrid agreement required us to create a separate TSM server for the
PVU licensed nodes,  which is ~15% of total occupancy)

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Ian Smith <ian.smith AT oucs.ox.ac DOT uk> 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are in the midst of discussions on moving to capacity-based licensing
> from the standard PVU-based method for our site. We have a large number of
> clients ( licensed via TSM-EE, TDP agents, and on client-device basis ) and
> around 1PB of primary pool data. As I understand it, there is no published
> metric for the conversion from PVU to per TB licensing so I would be really
> interested and grateful if anyone would like to share their experiences of
> that conversion in a private email to me.
>
> Many thanks in advance.
> Ian Smith
> Oxford University
> England
>



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