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.lo...@health-first.org> > To: > ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Date: > 09/25/2009 03:22 PM > Subject: > Re: [ADSM-L] Per terabyte licensing > Sent by: > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> > > > > Haven't heard that. > My first thought is that it would make licensing > a LOT easier to figure out! > > David Longo > >>>> Thomas Denier <thomas.den...@jeffersonhospital.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? > > > ##################################### > This message is for the named person's use only. It may > contain private, proprietary, or legally privileged information. > No privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you > receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and > all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, > and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, > disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you > are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to > monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views > or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the > individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views > or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender > is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. > ##################################### > -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Systems Administrator, Genome Sciences Department -- University of Washington, School of Medicine
