topic Re: HP-UX 10.20 sw licensing in Operating System - HP-UX

HP-UX 10.20 sw licensing

Davide Depaoli_3 — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 03:26:17 GMT

Hello,
my customer must to upgrade old HP9000-K360 from 2 to 4 CPUs. He has installed following sw:
HP-UX 10.20
OnLine JFS tier 1 SPUs
MirrorDisk/UX tier 1 SPUs
MC/ServiceGuard tier 1 SPUs
OSI Transport tier 1 SPUs
OV GlancePlus Pack 2000 tier 1 SPUs

I'll need to know if is necessary to buy additional licenses for that software or not.

thanks in advance
kind regards
Davide

Re: HP-UX 10.20 sw licensing

Luk Vandenbussche — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 03:34:57 GMT

Officialy you need to buy additional licenses.
But it wil work.

Re: HP-UX 10.20 sw licensing

Adisuria Wangsadinata_1 — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 04:14:02 GMT

Hi,

With your current configuration, officially you should get the additional licenses (since only 1 SPUs).

You can proceed to add the CPU, as far as i know the additional license needed for HP-UX 11.X.

Hope this information can help you.

Cheers,
AW

Re: HP-UX 10.20 sw licensing

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 04:15:40 GMT

Oracle is licenses per cpu
As is HP-UX utilities.

To be legal, you must purchase.

SEP

Re: HP-UX 10.20 sw licensing

Arunvijai_4 — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 04:15:47 GMT

Yes, You need to buy additional licenses.

-Arun

Re: HP-UX 10.20 sw licensing

Davide Depaoli_3 — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 04:21:10 GMT

I've asked to HP support.
Is not necessary to buy additional licenses, because for old HP9000 server, software was licensed for tier (nr. of SPUs) and not for CPUs.

Davide

Re: HP-UX 10.20 sw licensing

Trond Haugen — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 07:21:10 GMT

Also you would not have been able to buy new licenses as 10.20 has long since been obsoleeted!

I would say the upgrade to newer HW and OS is long overdue.

Regards,
Trond

Re: HP-UX 10.20 sw licensing

Ted Buis — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:24:38 GMT

One new dual core CPU chip (2 cores) will exceed the performance of your K360 with four CPUs, and HW support will like be a big savings. You would have to move to 11.11 however. HP-UX 10.20 was sold per node only, and was not licensed per CPU, as is the case with 11.11.