"Capping" works fine for us....
-jc-
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Behalf Of Field, Alan C.
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 10:35 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: Dummy LPAR to store excess MIPS
>
> Dick,
>
> We've been doing this for a number of months. We have a 2094-704 that
we
> dedicated one CPU to our sysprog lpar (so we didn't need to create a
> parking lpar). It seems to be working to hold down the costs on the
> other production lpars.
>
> Alan
>
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> Behalf Of Bond, Dick (DIS)
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 16:58
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> Subject: Dummy LPAR to store excess MIPS
>
> Does anyone use the concept of a "dummy" LPAR to store excess "MIPS"
to
> avoid software costs?
>
> Suggest other methods of storing unused capacity?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dick Bond
> Department of Information Services
> CSD Production Support
> di...@dis.wa.gov
>
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