[Info-vax] VSI software

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 8/8/2020 2:54 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <rgmol1$k21$2 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
> <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> 
>>> This means that if you want to cluster a dozen computers, you will likely
>>> need a dozen licenses.
>>
>> Considering how few hobbyists will want to run that large a cluster
>> and how small a fraction of the total work requesting a license
>> per node will be, then I don't really see that as a big problem.
> 
> Indeed, assuming that one hobbyist can have more than one community
> license.  Not a problem with the old hobbyist licenses.
> 

Back when Dave Cathey (via Montegar) was running the Hobbyist program there was a place to put a serial number and request a license for each system. I don't know if this was required (since even then SimH VAXen had no serial #) but I usually asked for one for each system I had (I have around 13 actual hardware VAX/Alpha/Integrity systems).  And as I recall if you tried to cluster the LMF would complain on Hobbyist PAKs unless you specified which node they belonged to.  I may be mistaken on that, but it's my recollection.  When HP/HPE took over they removed the serial number blank and said just get one per platform.  The licenses were generated such that they worked on multiple systems even in a VMScluster.  The VSI application makes no allowances for requesting more than one license per platform (Alpha/Integrity) and other than the line in the EULA, makes no implication that the license cannot be shared on multiple machines of the same platform.

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John H. Reinhardt