VPAR N4000

[Nobody's Hero]

I want to Vpar an N4000 that I have here on site. I want to put a DEV and a Prod partition on the server and retire 2 Kclass boxes.

Does anyone know how much the Vpar software costs?

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Robert,

It's $1742 per processor here in the US.


Pete

[Pete Randall]

Sorry, forgot the link:

http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=T1335AC


Pete

[Thierry Poels_1]

hi,

the free base version is gone. So according to software.hp.com :
HP-UX Virtual Partitions (T1335AC) $1742.0

regards,
Thierry.

[Thierry Poels_1]

hmmm, I doubt this is a "per processor" price.

[Nobody's Hero]

Thierry, are you saying that it is NOT a per processor price?

[Pete Randall]

Robert,

I just purchased it for a 4-way rp7410 and it was definitely a per-processor price.


Pete

[harry d brown jr]

You DO pay based upon number of processors. As for the price, it looks about right, but then again I don't pay the bills :-))

We replaced over 160 K's with ~40 N's (running vPars) and soon to be a few rp7410's.

live free or die
harry d brown jr

[melvyn burnard]

T1335AC is licensed on a per-processor (CPU) basis. Customers must purchase the same qty of this product license as the number of CPUs ordered for their supported vPars server.
See page 5 of
http://docs.hp.com/en/1705/oc.pdf

[Pete Randall]

Robert,

Here's a quote from the Ordering and Config Guide ( http://docs.hp.com/en/hpux11i.html#Virtual%20Partitions )

"3.1 purchasing and licenses

The product (Product Number T1335AC) is sold on a Per-Processor (or CPU) Licensing basis. Therefore, you purchase the same quantity of this product as the number of CPUs installed in your nPartitions (or non-nPartition-ed systems) that will be running vPars. If you later purchase additional CPUs for HP systems or Superdome nPartitions running vPars, you must also purchase the corresponding number of additional per-processor licenses of T1335AC."


Pete

[Thierry Poels_1]

ooops, it's indeed per CPU. Sorry about that. I got confused after trying "Buy from reseller", it just asked a quantity, nothing about number of processors.
But now I do remember receiving a massive number of boxes, each with a vPar license paper in it.