[gpfsug-discuss] Spectrum Scale licensing

[Flanders, Dean]

Hello All,

As IBM has completely switched to capacity based licensing in order to use SS v5 I was wondering how others are dealing with this? We do not find the capacity based licensing sustainable. Our long term plan is to migrate away from SS v5 to Lustre, and based on the Lustre roadmap we have seen it should have the features we need within the next ~1 year (we are fortunate to have good contacts). We would really like to stay with SS/GPFS and have been big advocates of SS/GPFS over the years, but the capacity based licensing is pushing us into evaluating alternatives. I realize this may not be proper to discuss this directly in this email list, so feel free to email directly with your suggestions or your plans.

Thanks and kind regards,

Dean
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