Re: IBM Micro-partitioning and software licensing

Posted in 2005

Neil Truby — Wed, 2 Mar 2005 19:58:18 -0000 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote in message news:4225FCE7.2030309@bloomberg.net... > 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. First of all, only an American could mangle the noun "affinity" and come up with the verb "affine" :-) I don't have a definitive answer to my assertion about LPARS or VPARS yet, but you are definitely a special case here. No amount of pleading from normal, non-leading-news-agency customers about affinity processing or NUMCPUVPS settings will save ordinary mortals from being required to buy 32-cpu licences in the case you describe. Of course, this type of issue will generally only affect larger sites, of whom IBM is perhaps more likely to take more notice and maybe allow exceptions?