Re: Core licensing per LPAR or per machine?

[Roberto José Etcheverry Romero <yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx>]

The system accounts for each IBM i activation. You may assign 1 core to
each partition, but the system will start screaming bloody murder and
saying "total Core usage is over licensed amount". So, if you have 3 LPARs
you can assign cores but only up to 1 in total (you may create a processor
pool and inside that pool set them to unlimited so as to allow all LPARs to
use 1 core in total IF the others aren't using it).
If you wanted to use 1 full core per LPAR you need 3 IBM i core licenses.

Best Regards,

Roberto

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 2:05 PM, e-mail s44b1443 <s44b1443@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Thanks for the reply....I'm still a little unclear. I have all 6 cores
> activated just not licensed for IBM i. I thought the key to license
> (unlock) each core for IBM i was entered into the partition, if that is the
> case what stops me using IBM i on any of the remaining activated cores or
> is the key for IBM i directly related to a specific core i.e. core 1 in my
> case?
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