Ya, we were looking at perhaps purchasing a bunch of licenses to convert a site from Veritas Netbackup to TSM and the number is shocking. Ours come in somewhere a little above $2000 per host on average.
Here is the basic CPU configuration of these 291 server-class machines. MFG Server CPU CPU Cores Platform Number of hosts. HP DL360 2 4 Linux 23 HP DL360 2 4 Windows 116 HP DL380 2 4 Linux 3 HP DL380 2 4 Windows 21 HP DL385 2 4 Linux 3 HP DL385 2 4 Windows 4 HP DL585 4 8 Linux 8 HP DL585 4 8 VMWare ESX 6 HP DL585 4 8 Windows 33 SUN T2000 1 4 UNIX 8 SUN V125 1 1 UNIX 3 SUN V245 2 2 UNIX 42 SUN V445 4 4 UNIX 3 SUN V490 4 4 UNIX 7 SUN X4600 8 8 Windows 11 291 Because most of them are high end machines with multiple CPUs and multiple cores, the TSM "Value" licensing is eating us alive. Even after our corporate discount it will be $600,000+ for the TSM licenses and the first 12 months of maintenance. A backup software licensing scheme based on CPU and core count is RETARDED. Some of these are just compute hosts with just the OS being backed up, but we have to pay a VERY large fee because it has a lot of CPU horsepower. Needless to say they are freaked out that it will cost more than half a million just for the software. They are pursuing quotes from other vendors and Tivoli will likely not get this business. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 2:12 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Licensing question > Yesterday my IBM rep sent me a quote for the new licenses and I was quite >shocked at the total. For 13 servers the total price was almost 39 thousand >dollars. This is just the license to back the server up. That works out to >about 3,000 per server. Does this seem right? Is this about what everyone >else is paying? It just seems awfully high for a client backup license... Did you use the IBM link to get the value units yourself Mark? At least this way you can ask a few folks for a quote. https://www-112.ibm.com/software/howtobuy/passportadvantage/valueunitcal culator/vucalc.wss?jadeAction=EXPERT_ARCHITECTURE Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]