You can find my detailed explanations on licensing in list archives.
In short - the sales team is right, you must sum processor count of both
TSM server and TSM server-type nodes (file servers, RDBMS, web/appl.
servers, etc.) and obtain necessary number of "Processor" licenses. For
non-server nodes (workstations not serving anything over the network) you
get "Client" license regardless of processor number.
For a 10-way server you need 10 ITSM or ITSM XE "Processor" licenses. For
a 6-cpu LPar/nPar/vPar in 10-way system you need 6 TSM licenses if other
partition(s) do not use TSM.
Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant
Przemysław Maciuszko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: TSM licensing again
Hi.
I've read all the previous messages about this topic, but I still have
some
questions.
We've been asked by IBM to count our client's processors number.
IBM says that now we will have to pay for licensing:
1. TSM Server - this is based on the number of processors used by clients
being backuped up on this server
2. TSM Clients - number of nodes using the TSM Server
The overall cost consists of those two.
Maybe I'm missing something in here, but the first part is somehow...
We have few machines but highly equipped (mostly 10+ CPUs per unit), so
the
fees for us are very high. Is it the _right_ way of licensing or just the
Polish sales team is missing something important in their way of thinking?
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Przemysław Maciuszko
Agora SA
