Sorry, it is very difficult if not impossible for me to say something about the add-ons with that amount of information.
Talking with Red Hats engineers shouldn't be so bad. Maybe you can try with Canonical and Ubuntu and get a second opinion and compare prices also. On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Grégoire, André <andre.grego...@crtc.gc.ca> wrote: > You are right. > > I didn't buy the servers or set them up. Someone had told me we had 6 CPU's x > 4 cores. However, I just checked with the guy who set them up and he > clarified that they have 4 CPU's x 6 cores so 4 socket it is. My bad! > > Any feedback on the add-ons? > > Thanks, > > Andre > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jorge Luis Diaz Flores [mailto:jldflo...@gmail.com] > Sent: March-09-12 10:04 AM > To: linux > Cc: Grégoire, André > Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Red Hat Enterprise Linux Licensing > > Maybe you are confusing cores with processors. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_socket > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-core_processor > > A quick search for the HP DL580 returns several configuration one of then > with only one processor and 6 cores. > > you will have to check the motherboard specification. Or follows Paul's > advice. > > I agree it is more complicated now but you don't have to pay for things you > don't need :). > > > > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Paul Belanger <paul.belan...@polybeacon.com> > wrote: >> 2012/3/9 Grégoire, André <andre.grego...@crtc.gc.ca>: >>> Hi Everyone, >>> >>> We are looking at buying RHEL Server to work with our newly acquired NetApp >>> Storage Area Network (connected via fibre channel). >>> >>> Our servers are HP DL580's and they have 6 CPU's. The RHEL licensing is >>> confusing, can anyone explain it? >>> >>> The sell a 2 or 4 socket version, we have 6 what happens in that case? >>> >>> What about all the add-on's: >>> >>> >>> · High Availability >>> >>> · Resilient Storage >>> >>> · Load Balancer >>> >>> · Scalable File System Add-On >>> >>> · High Performance Add-On >>> >>> · Smart Management Add-On >>> >>> I remember when buying an OS was an easy thing. >>> >>> Thanks for anyone that can offer some information, I figured I would reach >>> out here first before talking the their Sales "engineers". >>> >> I suggest starting with RedHat first, getting all the information and >> pricing from sales then try to confirm if you actually need them all. >> Since we don't have direct access to their pricing models it's going >> to be hard to come up with specific numbers. >> >>> Thanks for your time! >>> >> >> -- >> Paul Belanger | dCAP >> Polybeacon | Consultant >> Jabber: paul.belan...@polybeacon.com | IRC: pabelanger (Freenode) | >> Blog: http://blog.polybeacon.com | Twitter: >> http://twitter.com/pabelanger >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux mailing list >> Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca >> http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
