Re: LPAR pricing gouge

[Mike.Crump@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Oh yes.  My favorite is the vendor that wanted to charge us a fee for LPAR
as well as the tier group change.  I'm consolidating servers and using LPAR
and my new server will be in the P40 tier.  In this case the LPAR fee was
minimal and we were only getting charged for the products and for the
LPAR's that we were using - so in defense of that vendor it's LPAR fee is
pretty rational.  But having both charges just infuriated me.  Thankfully,
the vendor elected to eliminate one of my charges (albeit the smaller one).

Most of my other vendors are really not bad on the LPAR
thing.....yet...........

And in my case with 20+ vendors I only had two that had what I would
consider to be rather nasty tier pricing surprises for me........

Michael Crump
Saint-Gobain Containers
1509 S. Macedonia Ave.
Muncie, IN  47302
(765)741-7696
(765)741-7012 f
(800)428-8642

mailto:mike.crump@saint-gobain.com





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We are checking with our vendor software to see what, if any, action needs
to be taken if we LPAR.

None of the vendor software will be run on more than one LPAR.

I ASSUMED that since most vendors (websphere excluded) don't charge by
number of processors, etc that it would be simple and no change would be
required.  Hey, S/N, model, etc all stay the same, right?

Now I found out that the barcode software TL Ashford will charge us an
additional $1,400 just to LPAR our machine.  Even though we will only be
running it on one partition.  And this partition is what currently runs on
the entire machine.  The boss evidently is going to fork over the bucks
and eat it.

Any other LPAR pricing horror stories?

Rob Berendt