Well, one reason why is that I only want to bring up my CF LPAR in case of an extended outage on my external CF.
We investigated all kinds of combinations and permutations, one of them being to upgrade our 2086-450, having 4 engines and 650 mips, to 2 engines and 700 mips, and convert one of the spare engines to an ICF. The charge for converting a PU from CP to ICF was over $100k. The cost of a used z900 CF is slightly over $100k. We decided the cost of a couple of sysplex timers was worth it to not have to give up 2 engines and the parallelism that they enable. Regards, Cathy On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Oh really? I'm not familiar with the "2086-450 minus 25%" model. > >... OOPS! > >Mind you, I've never used CP's for CF's. >Why would you? The ICF engine is cheaper than a general purpose engine. > >- >-teD > >Im an enthusiastic proselytiser of the universal panacea I believe in! > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
