Re: How to relate performance of new models

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sue is right that you don't 'need' PowerVM SE here BUT you almost 
certainly will be better of purchasing PowerVM rather than 4 licenses of 
IBM i which you would need it you use all four cores. Well, unless you 
have a very heavy CPU environment and you NEED four cores!

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 2/12/2013 7:42 PM, Sue Baker wrote:

> HMC is not required to have a 720 or 740 with up to 5 total IBM i LPARs.
>    First LPAR would be "in charge" and the others guests (everything
> hosted) of the first.  If PowerVM standard edition is not ordered, each
> partition must have 1 or more processors.  So in the 4 core being
> discussed, 4 1-core LPARs could be created with PowerVM Entry and no HMC.
>
> On 2/5/2013 10:34 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:
> > On 2/5/2013 10:07 PM, DrFranken wrote:
> > > Well for such small partitions as that you can easily do that with a
> > > single CPU and probably 4 drives. You could easily make one partition a
> > > guest of the other or create a 'host' partition and then two small
> > > guests. Each partition would have probably 40GB usable if that's enough
> > > for you.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure what you mean by solid state backup but you could certainly
> > > attach an SSD via USB and back up to that.
> >
> > Okay, list for a 4-core i is about $6000. Are you saying the OS is
> > another $9-10K? And roughly how much is the HMC? Is that a separate
> > purchase?
> >
> > I may have to replace Mathilda some day, even though she is surviving
> > quite nicely on a steady diet of disk drives.
> >
> > Joe