On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha <fajar at fajar.net> wrote: > 2009/11/30 JoeBilish <bilishr at hotmail.com>: >> ?? From the customer view of point. If the license is base on number of >> cores, > >> ?? If it difficult to implement this scheme, do you know any other >> license scheme to support virtualization? > > AFAIK even Oracle, IBM, dan MS don't put hardcoded limit in terms of > core/cpu-based licensing, so it's more of a legal thing instead of a > technical thing.
IBM does subcapacity licensing by having some sort of a license server that talks to agents that exist on various machines. The last I knew, they did not have a standard offering for working with LDoms. A good starting point for IBM's subcapacity licensing is http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/passportadvantage/Counting_Software_licenses_using_specific_virtualization_technologies.html The overall process is rather complicated and still involves trusting the customer. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
