Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Red Hat Enterprise Linux Licensing

2012-03-09 Thread Jorge Luis Diaz Flores
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:

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Red Hat Enterprise Linux Licensing

2012-03-09 Thread Grégoire , André
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 M

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Red Hat Enterprise Linux Licensing

2012-03-09 Thread Jorge Luis Diaz Flores
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 specific

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Red Hat Enterprise Linux Licensing

2012-03-09 Thread Paul Belanger
2012/3/9 Grégoire, André : > 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 s

[OCLUG-Tech] Red Hat Enterprise Linux Licensing

2012-03-09 Thread Grégoire , André
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 wha