RE: Force fed LPAR

 My feeling is that LPAR justification must strongly consider costs.
 LPAR does not automatically reduce your costs and can easily raise costs
when all is considered.
 Many 3rd party software licenses can go through the roof when LPARing a
system.


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Douglas Hart - Sr. Consultant
Certified IBM iSeries System Administrator
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> IBM is really pushing LPAR.  Probably for a number of reasons.
> A)  It sells disk and more cards.
> B)  It increases complexity of your operation, thus perhaps selling
> services.
> C)  It drastically increases the amount of your downtime.  Perhaps selling
> High Availability solutions, which may help sell services.  For instance,
> if I run 4 partitions on V5R2 and I want to go to the next release, won't
> I have to do 4 upgrades?  IBM charges $3,500 a upgrade therefore wouldn't
> they get 4 times what they would have gotten out of a single partition
> machine?  Granted, we do our own upgrades, but I don't think you can
> upgrade all partitions at once.
>
> We've recently consolidated multiple machines onto one.  IBM's insistence
> that we use LPAR to 'reduce cost' of some of their products.  Their
> insistence that we run LPAR if we want to currently run the latest and
> greatest Domino, Sametime and Quickplace on one iSeries.  And other
> attempts to ram LPAR down our throats is upsetting.
>
> Rob Berendt
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> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> Benjamin Franklin
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