RE: Force fed LPAR

Doug,

Under normal circumstances you're absolutely correct.  Domino processor
cycles on a Bumblebee are less expensive than processor cycles on a
standard 820 machine.  It is kind of like a three tier interactive
penalty.  Instead of just the processor and interactive tiers, you have
Domino, OS, and Interactive tiers.

Penalties (just like the interactive) apply if you run a non-Domino
workload on a Bumblebee.  This can include trying to integrate your
Domino applications with a DB/2 database, so you have to be careful
about your specific applications.

So Rob didn't really lose anything by putting his Domino apps on an 840.
He has more power than he would have had available on a Bumblebee.  He
has paid more for those processor cycles and gained the ability to
integrate Domino and other workloads on the same hardware platform.

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> On Behalf Of Doug Hart
> Subject: RE: Force fed LPAR
>
>  I see more Domino users going to LPAR and just have to ask.
>  Wasn't IBM selling a special "Bumble Bee" iSeries tuned of Domino
just a
> few years ago.
>  Wasn't I told that Domino would run better on these systems than on
my
> standard iSeries.
>  So if I cut up my 820 a put Domino in a partition aren't I loosing
> something?
>
>
>  ---
> Douglas Hart - Sr. Consultant