RE: What does just one core activated mean? Was: Cost Justifications

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Nathan,
You buy the hardware.  It comes with a set amount of processors already 
built into it.  Now, if you want to USE some of the processors you have to 
get a license for them.  It's a way for IBM to lower manufacturing costs 
and CE costs by just putting the hardware into the machine, while allowing 
them to be cost competitive on the lower end and make pure profit on the 
higher end.  It also allows you to get a processor upgrade without 
experiencing any downtime.

See WRKLICINF.  Look for one with a License Term of just V7, not V7R1M0 
(notice the pattern if you are falling behind).  This one spans 
partitions.  I could have 8 processors, and license 7 of them for IBM i 
and reserve one for Linux.

Product ID  . . . . . . . . :   5770SS1 
License term  . . . . . . . :   V7 
Feature . . . . . . . . . . :   5051 
Description . . . . . . . . :   IBM i 
 
Compliance type . . . . . . :   *KEYED 
Usage type  . . . . . . . . :   *PROCESSOR 
 
Usage limit . . . . . . . . :   7 
Last update . . . . . . . . :   04/28/10  16:22:10
 
Threshold . . . . . . . . . :   6 
 
Usage Count Information: 
  All partitions  . . . . . :   7.00 
  Local partition . . . . . :   3.00 

So


Rob Berendt