FYI - the waters get even murkier when you start down the VCB path. Try posing this scenario to your Tivoli rep: all VMWare guest backups have been offloaded to VCB proxy servers, and the TSM client has been uninstalled from the guests. No TSM software exists on the VM hosts at all.
Now ask them which physical cores need to be counted for Tivoli licensing - the answer may surprise you. Steve Schaub Systems Engineer, Windows Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee 423-535-6574 (desk) 423-785-7347 (mobile) -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cpreston Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 1:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] VMware and TSM Backup - Survey Wanda Prather wrote: > 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. > Just to be clear -- that includes TDP licenses? There was a question today on the list ( http://tinyurl.com/47zjbe ) where at least one of the answers seemed the opposite of what you're saying, and another said "nobody knows." I speak about VMware backups, and so I get asked this a lot. I just want to make sure my answer is dead on. TIA +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm
