Re: How do we make it so that the number 7 is no longer greater than 12?

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So let me get this straight. You say Help Systems makes you pay for all 
the IBM i processors you have and then ALSO charges you for keys to a 
second LPAR? That cannot be right, and if it is, it's still not right...


        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 9/19/2016 1:20 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:
> Thought I'd try a pmr first.
> Your service request number is 92836,082,000.
>
> Perhaps we're confusing them:
>         Shared Processor Pool: RACK1
>                      Reserved    Maximum
> Pool           Pool  Processing  Processing
> Name           ID    Units       Units
> DefaultPool    0     N/A         N/A
> IBMi           1     0           7
> IBMiAppServer  2     0           5
> NonMimix       3     0           5
>
> DefaultPool is used by our AIX lpar and our two VIOS lpars.
> IBMiAppServer is used by lpars especially licensed for the 'application
> server' license.  Domino and hosting only lpars.
> IBMi are our two Mimix lpars; production and development.
> NonMimix is primarily a domino lpar but with some DB2 activity.  It just
> was easier to move him out than get the time to move the two Mimix lpars
> to their own lpar.
>                      Shared
>          Processing  Processing
> lpar     Units       Pool
> vios1    0.25        DefaultPool
> Vios2    0.25        DefaultPool
> AIX      1           DefaultPool
> Prod     5           IBMi
> Dev      1           IBMi
> Web      1           NonMimix
> Host     2           IBMiAppServer
> Domino   3           IBMiAppServer
>
>
> Mimix will check the licences of the shared pool they are in.
> HelpSystems doesn't care if you are just running it on one lpar.  They
> want you to pay for the total in IBMi, IBMiAppServer and NonMimix.  They
> only cut you slack on the pool for Aix.  But if you do run it on another
> lpar, they want a check for that also.
>
>
> Rob Berendt