Re: Licensing on LPAR's -- MIDRANGE-L

It is something I cannot argue against.
PTF's have not been installed since 2017. Applying all at once is a threat
management refuses to take. Once we have a DR site established, we can try
to install PTF's again.
Darryl.

On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 11:07 AM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Is it licensed to the serial number?
</snip>
Depends on what you mean by "it". Generally OS products are licensed to
the serial number.
Now, if you have a mix of IBM i, vios, aix, linux, then there are
considerations like you do not have to license IBMi for the total
processors in the machine, just to those processors consumed by IBMi.

Not only is there IBM to consider but there are vendor packages.

Some are licensed to the lpar number also. See the "PARTITION ID" below.

Some, HelpSystems for example, seem to find every possible thing they can
charge you for. Number of processors, number of processors licensed for
IBMi, number of processors in the lpar's shared processor pool, ...
Have one of their products on one lpar but not on the other? Well you
better make sure they are in different shared processor pools or you're
paying for the processors consumed by both. I guess the argument is that
the using lpar could borrow processors from the other one(s). I have one
system carved up into multiple shared processor pools. One for the lpars
replicated by H/A software (licensed by that), one shared processor pool
for the lpar running GoAnywhere, one for other lpars using IBMi. Then
there's the AIX and vios...

See also:
CALL QLZARCAPI
Message ID . . . . . . : CPF9897
Message . . . . : PARTITION INFO -> NETWORK NAME: GDIHQ . PARTITION
NAME:
GDIHQ. PARTITION ID: 5. SHARING TYPE: SHARED. SHARING MODE: UNCAPPED.
MIN
PROCESSING CAPACITY: 2.00. DESIRED PROCESSING UNITS: 4.00. MAX
PROCESSING
CAPACITY: 6.00. ENTITLED PROCESSING CAPACITY: 4.00. MIN VIRTUAL
PROCESSORS:
2. DESIRED VIRTUAL PROCESSORS: 10. MAX VIRTUAL PROCESSORS: 12. ONLINE

VIRTUAL PROCESSORS: 10

Rob Berendt
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Something I have never been concerned with until now.

How does IBM treat licensing on LPAR's?
For example: Is there a difference if there is 1 LPAR or 20 LPARs? Is it
licensed to the serial number?

Darryl Freinkel.
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