Veritas Storage Foundation™ & High Availability Solutions for Windows
Updated Information on CPU Tiers
Symantec is announcing an update to the previous information supplied on the CPU tiers for Veritas Storage Foundation™ & High Availability Solutions 5.1 for Windows. This change will become effective on 23, May 2011.
This product includes the following product options
- Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 for Windows
- Veritas Storage Foundation Enterprise 5.1 for Windows
- Veritas Storage Foundation HA 5.1 for Windows
- Veritas Storage Foundation Enterprise HA 5.1 for Windows
- Veritas Storage Foundation HA/DR 5.1 for Windows
- Veritas Storage Foundation Enterprise HA/DR 5.1 for Windows
- Veritas Cluster Server 5.1 for Windows (Note: Replaces Veritas Cluster Server for NetApp)
- Veritas Cluster Server 5.1 for Windows HA/DR.
Options
- DMP 5.1 Option for Windows
- FlashSnap 5.1 Option for Windows
- Microsoft Clustering 5.1 Option for Windows
- Veritas Volume Replicator 5.1 Option for Windows.
All of above products have existing SKUs with a per server meter based upon the Windows OS Edition (Web/Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter). These per Server OS Edition SKUs will remain available.
For each product listed above, new SKUs have been added based upon CPU tier. There are 3 CPU tiers for each product as show below:
- CPU Tier 1: Up to 4 CPU cores
- CPU Tier 2: Up to 8 CPU cores
- CPU Tier 3: Up to 12 CPU cores
Additional Information
The new CPU meter SKUs are being introduced for the following reasons:
- The per CPU meter is more accommodating, realistic and advantageous in purchasing product in virtualized environments where purchase and licensing per the edition of the OS (only what exists today) that each virtual machine is running becomes too complex, and often can be cost adverse.
- Per CPU provides price advantages in environments running Windows Data Center Edition, which is the largest growing Windows OS Edition in virtualised environments.
- Per CPU on the Windows platform provides further meter parity with the same products on the Unix and Linux platforms. This allows purchases to be standardised on the same meter in a cross platform environment, which becomes especially important in virtualised environments where virtual machines on a single virtual platform will often be a mix of Windows, Linux and Unix.
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