John, Not to rain on your parade or anything but in talking to my IBM rep she told me that the licensing strategy is indeed changing with the 5.4 release but not for the better in my opinion. Now instead of basing it on the number of CPU's that you have, it will now be based upon the type of CPU you have. Each CPU type will have a certain number of "value units" assigned to it and you have to purchase the value units in something like blocks of 10 so that you end up with enough to cover the type of CPU you are using. Sounds fun doesn't it? Obviously their way of getting you for have CPU's with multiple cores.
Justin T. Miller - G&B Solutions - Contract to DOI/NBC (o) 303-969-5646 (c) 720-936-9708 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Schneider, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> 05/22/2007 03:51 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc: Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Question for you Mark, We went through one of these about four months ago. It took us weeks to get CPU counts of all the servers in a 1200 TSM client environment with 13 TSM servers spread out over 4 states. If all we had to do was count how many clients of each type we had, it could have been done in an hour, but NOOOOO, we had get various admins across the enterprise to find out how many CPUs were in each one. It was a huge pain. It was made worse by things like Intel servers with hyper-threaded CPUs, that look like 4 CPUs to Windows, even though there are really only 2 CPUs installed. Now we have a process in place wherein every time we define a new TSM client we update a spreadsheet, a master licensing spreadsheet, if you will. We don't want to EVER have to go through the manual audit again. Is IBM listening, I hope? IBM's licensing strategy should be greatly simplified, or based on something that the TSM client itself could track and report. Best Regards, John D. Schneider Sr. System Administrator - Storage Sisters of Mercy Health System 3637 South Geyer Road St. Louis, MO. 63127 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 314-364-3150, Cell: 314-486-2359 -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Remeta, Mark Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 3:15 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Question for you Has anyone else ever gotten a TSM License Review request from KPMG? I'm wondering what my legal obligations are because they want me to fill out a spreadsheet with all the nodes on our network which would be very time consuming. Has anyone else gone through this recently? Confidentiality Note: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to whom or which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this in error, please delete this material immediately. Please be advised that someone other than the intended recipients, including a third-party in the Seligman organization and government agencies, may review all electronic communications to and from this address.