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jainmanoj
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9 years ago

Veritas Cluster

I need to know the licensing method if i am planning to run 4 Node Window cluster  on Virtual machine.

1) Physical Machine having Dual CPU with 12 core ( Intel Xeon E5).

2) Virtual Machine having 16 vcpu each .

So need to understand how many license i need to buy to create 4 node Vertias Cluster and which license type .

Quick help is appreciated.

 

  • The opening post is about licensing for virtual machines. Is this what you have in your environment?
  • Did I get right on this,

     

    IF I have two node cluster and each node has 4 physical CPU's and 8 cores each then shall I have to buy 32*4=128 licenses.

    Or by node basis I wil have to buy?

    Please help to understand it.

     

     

    Thanks,

    Allaboutunix

  • You licence by core for the least amount.

    So if you have 2 ESX servers and each has 24 cores, then if you run a 2-node cluster with each VM exposed to 16 cores then you pay for 2x16=32 as this is less than 2x24=48, but if you ran a 4-node cluster on the same 2 ESX servers, then you would licence for 2x24=48 as this is less than 4x16=64.

    Mike

  • I found this post in Vision forum and moved it to Cluster forum.