Re: IBM Micro-partitioning and software licensing

Posted in 2005

Paul Watson — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 19:52:29 +0000 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Art S. Kagel wrote: [cutting] >> >> 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! > > > I dunno about that. We are charged by the number of physical CPUs we > affine > CPU VPs to. We run on 24-32 way Sun UltraSparc and normally use 2-8 > processors > for CPU VPs and that's the number of licenses we account for. > > Art S. Kagel > It seems to depend, I think the interpretion is more down to who you are and your relationship with IBM. We have clients on big CPU boxes some have full licenses even though they don't use them all the CPUs for informix , some only license the Informix CPUs -- Paul Watson # Oninit Ltd # Growing old is mandatory Tel: +44 1436 672201 # Growing up is optional Fax: +44 1436 678693 # Mob: +44 7818 003457 # www.oninit.com #