Thanks for that info. I guess the money is definitely an issue. It ties in with questions of separating the instances of the servers. For example, if there are staging, testing and production servers, would we want one instance of CF Enterprise to service all the servers? I am thinking no, becuase testing scripts frequently throw the testing server into a spin. Would it then be possible to restart CF only for that testing server, but not for the others?
Thanks, George On 6/23/05, Barney Boisvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The license agreement specifically mentions CPU counts, so I'd imagine > that you're bound by the hardware, regardless of virtual machines. > I.e. if you have a dual proc machine, you can get a single license and > install it as many times as you want. However, you're going to run > into some serious performance bottlenecks if you have more than a > couple virtual machines, because there's a lot of overhead. > > With the blades, however, each blade would almost certainly count as a > separate machine. Even though they share some hardware via the > bladecenter, each one still has it's own CPU, and that's the basis for > how CF is licensed. And I believe with CF7, the license specifically > says "CPUs in a single machine", so if you've got a 2 CPU license, > that's only good for a single blade, even if the blade only has one > CPU. > > cheers, > barneyb > > On 6/22/05, Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I tried to find out if this is possible. We are going to be deploying > > > VMware across the blades of a Bladecenter. There are possibly 30 web > > > servers (IIS or Apache as the need is) going to running across the > > > blades for various websites/applications. Is it possible for one copy > > > of CF Enterprise to be deployed across all these servers and also have > > > the features of Enterprise stay as is? > > > > I'm not sure what you're asking, exactly. > > > > You can certainly install Enterprise on as many virtual machines as you > > like. Each virtual machine is, for all intents and purposes, just like a > > physical machine. Each virtual machine on which you install CFMX Enterprise > > will have a full copy of it, along with all its functionality. > > > > However, while that's technically possible, it may violate your license > > unless you purchase a copy for each VM. Honestly, I don't know what the > > policy is for licensing MM software on virtual machines, but I haven't seen > > anything to indicate it's any different from installing on physical > > machines. > > > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > > http://www.figleaf.com/ > > > > Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > > instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, > > Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. > > Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:10:5461 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/10 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:10 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.10 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
