Re: Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

[Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 Den 09/10/10 05.55, Nathan Andelin skrev:
> > From: Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen
> > How will you handle if the system simply cannot handle
> > more requests per second?
> I change the subsystem class for all the ODBC/JDBC database server jobs to a
> time slice of 1 millisecond, and knock the run priority down to 99, and allocate
> just 1 meg RAM to the subsystem.  We only need those jobs for serving .Net and
> JEE clients.  It's fun to irritate those people.  That frees more resources for
> all our RPG CGI programs ;-)
>
> Okay, if your box is pegged at 100% CPU utilization 24X7 and customers begin
> complaining about performance, then you call IBM and order the activation key
> for a capacity on demand upgrade.  You enter the key, and suddenly your server
> is running on 4 sockets instead of 2.  CPU goes back down to 50%.
Ok, sounds very easy.

How expensive is such a "capacity on demand"-upgrade, and what do you do 
when you run out of these upgrades or they get too expensive?