Veritas / Symantec Cluster Server Maintenance Agreement

[roguenine]

Hi everyone!

I have a question related to the maintenance agreement renewals for Veritas / Symantec Cluster Server. Originally our cluster server ran on a IBM P5 w/ AIX and we had Tier C renewal. Now we have moved to IBM P7 w/ AIX and the vendor has informed us that we need to move to a Tier G renewal, which is five times the price of the Tier C.

I just to confirm and want some information on what Tier C and G are. Are they related to IBM or Symantec? Should I expect this type of MA price increase?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Halcyon.

[Yasuhisa_Ishika]

Symantec has list of servers and its tier for pricing of Storage Foundation products.
When you move to new machine of upper tier, you need new renewal for this server(and, I believe, need to purchase new license of new tier).

[Marianne · Accepted solution]

Symantec now has two licencing models - per Core (SPVU) and per Server Tier model.

You can have a look for yourself over here:

https://sort.symantec.com/spvu_calc

Ask your vendor for a SPVU quote as well as per Server Tier. Ensure that you both agree on the SPVU value.

[roguenine]

Dear Marianne, Yasuhisa-san,

Thank you very much for your responses. They've helped me greatly.