All,
NSM is a great suggestion, but my customer is opposed to bringing in an
RS6K for this project. A Solaris server is the only alternative in this
environment. Thanks to Wanda, I will be going down the dynamic license
feature for this project.
Thanks everybody!
--
Joshua S. Bassi
Independent IT Consultant
IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark
Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
Joe Faracchio
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 2:58 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Floating Client License Period
Yes the 3466 comes with 5001 clients.
BUT that being said, it should be noted that the 3466's
IBM configures and supplies could never handle 5000 clients
unless the clients are very small with little changes.
As opposed to large and many chaning files clients
Also pricing of extra (non-tape-media) equipment has this factored in as
well. (disks, cpus, etc)
... joe.f.
Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley
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On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Joshua S. Bassi wrote:
> All,
>
> I have a customer who has plans to backup thousands of small Linux
> boxes. These boxes will be backed up incrementally until the 100GB
> partition on each is full and then they will perform a full backup.
At
> that time, the client will be decommissioned and not back up any
longer.
> Cost is a major issue for this customer. They cannot afford to buy 1
> client license for each of these tiny hosts.
>
> When the TSM Value Based Pricing model came out, I seem to remember
> hearing that if a client was no longer backing up, after a certain
> amount of time, the client license would be put back into the pool. I
> have seen this in a couple of accounts where I have come in and
upgrade
> the TSM server as well - there were 30 clients defined and only 25
were
> "in use."
>
> My question is: after how many days, will the client stop being "in
use"
> and free up a license for reuse?
>
>
> --
> Joshua S. Bassi
> Independent IT Consultant
> IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark
> Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM
> Cell (408)&(831) 332-4006
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
