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<div dir="ltr" >There is a slideset that explains the new licensing models. I can present some slides from that next week at the GPFS-UG in Manchester,</div>
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<div dir="ltr" >To answer your question.</div>
<div dir="ltr" >In 4.2.2 The Standard edition of Spectrum Scale continues unchanged.</div>
<div dir="ltr" >The Express edition will be removed and all customers with Express will be offered a free uplift to Standard Edition.</div>
<div dir="ltr" >The Advanced edition (with Encryption, Cloud Object Tiering, etc.) will be renamed and only that version will have per-TB licensing.</div>
<div dir="ltr" >The per-TB is as seen by the NSD server's OS so after hardware RAID, disk mirroring etc. not simply raw disk capacity.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" >The rules for licensing are that all nodes in a single cluster must have the same license level and at the same license model. ie. in this case all nodes in a cluster <em>per-TB</em> licensed or all nodes <em>per-socket</em> licensed. Multi-Cluster environments can be heterogeneous in this respect. In this case a per-socket cluster can mount a per-TB cluster with no restrictions (but the other way around would (unfortunately) require a set of 'dummy' per-socket client licenses on the nodes of per-TB licensed cluster that is mounting from the per-socket licensed cluster.)</div>
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<div dir="ltr" >Finally some configurations, most notably ESS will be licensed per physical disk rather than per-TB. This would be independent of the capacity of each disk.</div>
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<div>I was going to ask about this, I recall it being mentioned about "grandfathering" and also having mixed deployments.</div>
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<div>Would that mean you could per TB license one set of NSD servers (hosting only 1 FS) that co-existed in a cluster with other traditionally licensed systems?</div>
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<div>I would see having NSDs with different license models hosting the same FS being problematic, but if it were a different file-system?</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt" ><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" ><span style="font-weight:bold" >From: </span><<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org" target="_blank" >gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</a>> on behalf of Daniel Kidger <<a href="mailto:daniel.kidger@uk.ibm.com" target="_blank" >daniel.kidger@uk.ibm.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold" >Reply-To: </span>"<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" target="_blank" >gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" target="_blank" >gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold" >Date: </span>Wednesday, 7 December 2016 at 12:36<br><span style="font-weight:bold" >To: </span>"<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" target="_blank" >gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" target="_blank" >gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold" >Cc: </span>"<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" target="_blank" >gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" target="_blank" >gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold" >Subject: </span>Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Strategies - servers with local SAS disks</span></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" > </span>
<div> </div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" > <span>The new volume based licensing option is I agree quite pricey per TB at first sight, but it could make some configuration choice, a lot cheaper than they used to be under the Client:FPO:Server model.</span></span>
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