One; licensing is by physical cores. Throw up as many VM clients as you want; you still just pay for the cpus (cores) on the physical box.
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:18 PM, cpreston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Kelly Lipp wrote: > > > > > > Most folks are using the TSM Client/Agent within the VM to do backups. > > Cool and you have to love the licensing on that: one client/agent > > license (with the appropriate cores figured, naturally) per ESX Server. > > VMs don't crap out often so DR is minimal, but it is relatively > > straightforward: rebuild the VM and then reconstitute it with data from > > TSM. > > > > > > > Kelly, > > What about TDP licensing in this model? Is IBM licensing those via > physical or virtual CPUs? (e.g. Assuming 5 Oracle servers running inside > VMs on a single-CPU ESX box, am I paying for one CPU or FIVE CPUs?) > > TIA > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. > |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- >
