RE: Core licensing per LPAR or per machine?

With the new Power8 cores, what is the minimum core needed for an LPAR if running "CAPPED" LPARS, .1, .2, etc.?

Paul

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Oberholtzer
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 1:18 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Core licensing per LPAR or per machine?

More important than the license exception message is IBM i will report that to IBM who will in turn send you a full price invoice with no negotiation to
follow. That will be expensive.

Best to do as Roberto suggests, use a shared processor pool with one core in it and use that for all your IBM i partitions.

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Jim Oberholtzer
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roberto José Etcheverry Romero
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 11:13 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Core licensing per LPAR or per machine?

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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