IBM Micro-partitioning and software licensing

Posted in 2005

CKGeier@nwc.edu — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:38:53 -0600 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

This is a multipart message in MIME format. --=_alternative 0066729786256FB6_= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" IBM has this really cool micro-partitioning setup in their newer mid-range servers where I can allocate 1/10 of a cpu's resources, for instance, to one program. Some companies products we purchase charge us maintenance and initial cost based on how many cpus we have in the server. Anyone purchased any products lately from companies who are willing to charge them for a fractional cpu, based on the micro-partitioning? (I would guess not). Thanks! Catherine Geier System Admin/IS support St. Paul, MN --=_alternative 0066729786256FB6_= Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" IBM has this really cool micro-partitioning setup in their newer mid-range servers where I can allocate 1/10 of a cpu's resources, for instance, to one program. Some companies products we purchase charge us maintenance and initial cost based on how many cpus we have in the server. Anyone purchased any products lately from companies who are willing to charge them for a fractional cpu, based on the micro-partitioning? (I would guess not). Thanks! Catherine Geier System Admin/IS support St. Paul, MN --=_alternative 0066729786256FB6_=-- sending to informix-list

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Neil Truby — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:39:50 -0000 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

<CKGeier@nwc.edu> wrote in message news:1109621498.f3ba2a347ffe33e0d51595cbfa43822d@teranews... > > This is a multipart message in MIME format. > --=_alternative 0066729786256FB6_= > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > IBM has this really cool micro-partitioning setup in their newer mid-range > servers where I can allocate 1/10 of a cpu's resources, for instance, to > one program. Some companies products we purchase charge us maintenance and > initial cost based on how many cpus we have in the server. Anyone > purchased any products lately from companies who are willing to charge > them for a fractional cpu, based on the micro-partitioning? (I would guess > not). > Thanks! > > Catherine Geier > System Admin/IS support > St. Paul, MN Nor of course will IBM. If you have an 8-way p570 and you partition it up and run IDS in one LPAR with, say, 2 cpus, they'll hit you for an 8-cpu licence. If I understand it properly!

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Fred Nurk — Tue, 1 Mar 2005 21:34:02 +1100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message news:38hoe9F5obp9jU1@individual.net... > <CKGeier@nwc.edu> wrote in message > news:1109621498.f3ba2a347ffe33e0d51595cbfa43822d@teranews... > > > > This is a multipart message in MIME format. > > --=_alternative 0066729786256FB6_= > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > > > IBM has this really cool micro-partitioning setup in their newer mid-range > > servers where I can allocate 1/10 of a cpu's resources, for instance, to > > one program. Some companies products we purchase charge us maintenance and > > initial cost based on how many cpus we have in the server. Anyone > > purchased any products lately from companies who are willing to charge > > them for a fractional cpu, based on the micro-partitioning? (I would guess > > not). > > Thanks! > > > > Catherine Geier > > System Admin/IS support > > St. Paul, MN > > Nor of course will IBM. If you have an 8-way p570 and you partition it up > and run IDS in one LPAR with, say, 2 cpus, they'll hit you for an 8-cpu > licence. > If I understand it properly! That is not the way it was explained by IBM to myself. We have a similar setup 8 way = 4 x 2 cpu LPARs. We only license on an per LPAR basis, not the server. > >