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Are license costs tied to memory?

2 years ago  2 replies

T tsmadm

We use the Dell XC series to run Nutanix and we asked for a quote to add aditional memory. Part of
the quote was adding additional licenses. Is this the case, when you add memory, you need to
purchase additional licenses?
We currently have the cluster licensed as PRO.

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F farhanparkar 2 years ago

Hi,
Not sure what kind of additional license you had been quoted for, you can always check with Dell
support if that is the case they should have inventory details and should guide you.

F>P

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J Jumario 2 years ago

Yes I've experienced the exact same thing. Wanted to buy memory for some Dell XC servers with
Nutanix Pro licenses. Had to pay more than double in "Nutanix software licenses" than if I just bought
the memory for a regular R730 server - even though the memory has the exact same part number...
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I have not been able to find this licensing scheme documented anywhere. I thought when a host was
licensed you could upgrade it as you wanted like you can with a vSphere host - (except for additional
CPU's maybe) - but this seems like V-tax all over again...

If anyone can provide any official documation about this, I'd be pleased to hear

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