[gpfsug-discuss] AFM Licensing

Luke Raimbach luke.raimbach at googlemail.com
Thu Nov 10 14:11:57 GMT 2016


Thanks for the feature matrix, but it doesn't really say anything about
client / server licenses. Surely you can have clients and servers in all
three flavours - Express, Standard and Advanced.

On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 at 12:07 Andrew Beattie <abeattie at au1.ibm.com> wrote:

> I think you will find that AFM in any flavor is a function of the Server
> license, not a client license.
>
> i've always found this to be a pretty good guide, although you now need to
> add Transparent Cloud Tiering into the bottom column
>
>
>
>
> Andrew Beattie
> Software Defined Storage  - IT Specialist
> Phone: 614-2133-7927
> E-mail: abeattie at au1.ibm.com
>
>
>
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> From: Luke Raimbach <luke.raimbach at googlemail.com>
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> Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] AFM Licensing
> Date: Thu, Nov 10, 2016 8:22 PM
>
> HI All,
>
> I have a tantalisingly interesting question about licensing...
>
> When installing a couple of AFM gateway nodes into a cluster for data
> migration, where the AFM filesets will only ever be local-updates, those
> nodes should just require a client license, right? No GPFS data will leave
> through those nodes, so I can't see any valid argument for them being
> server licensed.
>
> Anyone want to disagree?
>
> Cheers,
> Luke.
>
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