HP-UX 10.20 sw licensing

[Davide Depaoli_3]

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

[Luk Vandenbussche]

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

[Adisuria Wangsadinata_1]

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

[Steven E. Protter]

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

To be legal, you must purchase.

SEP

[Arunvijai_4]

Yes, You need to buy additional licenses.

-Arun

[Davide Depaoli_3]

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

[Trond Haugen]

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

[Ted Buis]

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.