Re: TimeShare/400 - space on an i series.

I am thinking more in terms of development boxes so I'd like the whole tamale. i5/OS and the licensed programs. I think only i5/OS is the one that trips me up. Can't remember if any licensed programs are "processor" sensitive. I know it would make getting license keys a challenge (it is already bad enough). Maybe use the Microsoft MSDN/Action Pack model: Grant "x" number of licenses (like 3) for all components.

Right now the blade firmware is erroneously reporting that number of active processors on my JS12 (two cores) (supposed to be fixed soon) so I just get a "i5/OS usage limit exceeded - operator action required" message. But if I could run a few LPARs while I try stuff out (without a 70 day limit) it would be sweet.

Pete

Lukas Beeler wrote:

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 22:30, Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That would be much easier and economical if the software was licensed by
processor group, rather than processor or LPAR.

Which software do you mean? IBM i OS is licensed based on processor
group and number of cores. If you have Power6 hardware and run V6R1,
you can easily spin up a guested LPAR (which must bei V6R1 too).

Interestingly, when we purchased three new entry-level Power 6 boxes,
we first thought about being a four-core machine and partition it.
Turns out, buying three boxes is cheaper than a big one that you slice
into pieces.