Re: IBM is leasing on-prem System i servers

[Laurence Chiu <lchiu7@xxxxxxxxx>]

Me too.  I work with a client who  runs production on a P8 single core
(second core was disabled during purchasing to save on IBMi licences). It
runs about 10-20% cpu during the day for about 50 users and only gets up to
100% during nightly batch.

This might be a way to avoid upgrading the box for 7.5 (DR is on a P9) and
both use SANs.

On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 2:24 AM Christopher Bipes <
chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We do.  We have two power 8's that are single core and we use less than
> 10% CPU.  They are dedicated to customer transaction processing.  They are
> located in CA and TX.
>
> Then we have our main IBM i at corp that runs all the back office stuff.
> It is also a single core power 9 system.  Finally in the TX location is
> another power 9 that is the mirror of the corp one.
>
> All 4 are only single core systems.  Well they have more than one core but
> IBMi is only licensed for 1 core.  And they run circles around our multi
> server / multi core / dual CPU SQL and IIS server that run other
> applications.
>
> Chris Bipes
> Director of Information Services
> CrossCheck, Inc.