You would think it would be a no-brainer, but they are not "techies" so the number is pretty much meaningless to them. The bottom line is "how much is this gonna cost, and how will these costs be mitigated?".
/b;
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wyatt, Chris (FGWA-IL)
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 11:04 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: New Power 7 - Building a Case
99% all of the time?!? OMG!
I have nothing helpful to add other than you need to make this a no-brainer for your senior mgmt.
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian Piotrowski
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 8:25 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: New Power 7 - Building a Case
Hi All,
We're in the process of getting quotes, etc. for a new Power-7 box (to replace our 520 - Power 4/5? - we purchased new in 2006). I'm trying to build a case for our senior management group as to why we need it.
Our current system (which is about 1200CPW pooled) is always running in the 99% cpu utilization - I can't recall really seeing it in anything lower than high 80s. We're also doing major improvements to our codebase so having the extra horsepower to run it will be a benefit.
Does anyone have any resources that can help me in my cause? I don't think management will buy the argument of the CPU utilization on it's own.
I did receive an article earlier this week on the benefits of upgrading. Maybe I'll raid that article as well to see what useful information I can harvest.
BTW - I did Google various phrases, but nothing really came up to give me a sound argument.
Thankee-sai!
/b;
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