New Site Licensing Arrangement on VMware Software
- Introduction
- Coverage
- Agreement Term
- Subscription
We are pleased to inform departments that a new site licensing
program on VMware software is available for subscription by
departments at an attractive educational price.
VMware is a virtualization infrastructure solution which allows
multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical computer and
share the resources of that single computer across multiple
environments. Different virtual machines can run different operating
systems and multiple applications on the same physical computer. You
can visit the web site at
http://www.vmware.com/virtualization/what-is-virtualization.html
for more details.2. Coverage
The site licensing programme offers a 3-year rental license of key
VMware software. Subscribing departments can enjoy use
of the VMware software covered under the programme and VMware’s
support service during the license period. These include:
i) vSphere 4 Enterprise Edition license covering
the following products:
| 1. ESX Server |
8. VMotion |
| 2. VC Agent |
9. Hot Add |
| 3. 4-way vSMP |
10. Fault Tolerance |
| 4. vStorage API |
11. Data Recovery |
| 5. Update Manager |
12. vShield Zone |
| 6. High Availability |
13. Storage VMotion |
| 7. Thin Provisioning |
14. DRS/DPM |
ii) VMware vCenter server license
iii) Platinum support and subscription services acquired
with VMware software
(Please refer to
www.vmware.com/support for details of the platinum support service.)
3. Agreement Term
The three year rental period is from March 1, 2010 to February
28, 2013. Departments joining this site licensing programme have to
commit the subscription until the expiry date on February 28, 2013. Subscription fee will be charged annually based on the VMware
software and the physical no. of processors subscribed.
The fee schedule can be found under HKU Portal (login to HKU Portal
=> click the tab
"Services" => under "Computer
Centre Services", click the link "Tender Prices").
The rights to deploy or use the VMware software will cease if departments fail to pay for the
subscription fee annually and all the VMware software must be
removed accordingly. The extension of the contract after the
three-year period is subject to future renewal with VMware Inc. and
we anticipate that we shall continue the subscription.
Departments have been informed of this site licensing arrangement.
Departments interested in subscribing the VMware software please
submit a CC Order Form to the Computer Centre on or before February
19, 2010 (Friday) through the HKU Portal as
follows.
Login to HKU Portal
=> click the tab
"Services" => under "Computer Centre Services", click the link
"Order
License and Goods" => "Place Order" => search for
type="VMware". The fee schedule
will be displayed accordingly.
For further enquiries on the above, please feel free to contact the
undersigned or ithelp@hku.hk.
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