Hmmm...there is confusion here, so I sent this thread to Suse and asked
them to clear it up here on the list server. I am a big Suse fan and would
hate for the wrong message being sent out. (Including from me.) Again, as
I understand it, you can have Suse installed on a box with up to x CPUs and
run as many instances of Linux as you can on that box. Here is an out-take
from the Suse 2004 price list (which does not yet contain zSeries pricing,
BTW) I work with Suse on a daily basis and I have not been told of a shift
to LPAR based pricing similar to Red Hat's. (Of course if they have, I'l
feel real stoopid!)
Enterprise Server 8 for IBM pSeries, evaluation version, incl. 3 months
Maintenance Program for 1 server (up to 8 CPUs each) and Installationkit
,International (German, English)
This is confusing wording, but from what I understand there is no per LPAR
charge. Now far be it for lil' ol' me to disagree with Jim. :) Hence, I
sent the thread to Suse and told them they should get up on the list server
post haste and clear the fog. I expect they should sometime tomorrow.
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Jim,
Ouch. That's definitely not what I wanted to hear. Sigh. While that will
give a break to people who want to assign multiple CPUs to an LPAR, it will
punish those that want to assign fractional CPUs to an LPAR. Oh well. I
guess that means _only_ CPU-intensive stuff on i/pSeries will be my
recommendation from here on out.
Mark Post
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> This interesting little tidbit showed up today. It says that the
> per-CPU licensing for SLES8 on iSeries and pSeries is being changed
> to "per-install." (The announcement also uses the term "per-server
> install.")
> Perhaps someone from IBM could comment on this. Does this mean that
> if someone uses the hypervisor to create (for example) 10 Linux
> LPARs, they would be charged for 10 licenses, when they might have
> been charged much less on a per-CPU basis? It's rather vague, and I
> don't want to spread misinformation if I can avoid it.
Mark:
Reading this announcement, I can understand the confusion. What it
means is that SuSE SLES on iSeries and pSeries is now priced per LPAR.
This is consistent with Red Hat RHEL which is also priced per LPAR on
iSeries and pSeries. Both SLES and RHEL continue to be priced per
processor on zSeries.
Note that RHEL is priced per image on Intel and AMD servers so if you
were running VMware with 4 RHEL images you would need 4 RHEL licenses.
I don't know how SuSE charges in a VMware environment.
Jim
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