2012/3/9 Grégoire, André <Andre [ dot ] Gregoire [ at ] crtc [ dot ] gc [ dot ] ca>: > Hi Everyone, > > We are looking at buying RHEL Server to work with our newly acquired NetApp Storage Area Network (connected via fibre channel). > > Our servers are HP DL580's and they have 6 CPU's. The RHEL licensing is confusing, can anyone explain it? > > The sell a 2 or 4 socket version, we have 6 what happens in that case? > > What about all the add-on's: > > > · High Availability > > · Resilient Storage > > · Load Balancer > > · Scalable File System Add-On > > · High Performance Add-On > > · Smart Management Add-On > > I remember when buying an OS was an easy thing. > > Thanks for anyone that can offer some information, I figured I would reach out here first before talking the their Sales "engineers". > I suggest starting with RedHat first, getting all the information and pricing from sales then try to confirm if you actually need them all. Since we don't have direct access to their pricing models it's going to be hard to come up with specific numbers. > Thanks for your time! > -- Paul Belanger | dCAP Polybeacon | Consultant Jabber: paul [ dot ] belanger [ at ] polybeacon [ dot ] com | IRC: pabelanger (Freenode) | Blog: http://blog.polybeacon.com | Twitter: http://twitter.com/pabelanger