Well, sometimes left field is a good place to be. It all depends ;-) I once recall a 'cost' of a few percent of the box in hypervisor overhead for a defined LPAR, active or not. IIRC, the ROT was 2-5%. And I am talking several hundred active LPARs.
I can believe things have changed. I can believe I have forgotten something. I can believe I was wrong. I am a little doubtful that the cost of a free lunch is changed, however :-) -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 1:23 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Adding LPARs without POR Huh? There is no MSU cost for an IFL LPAR. IFLs do not count towards your z/OS software cost at all. If an LPAR is DEACTIVATED, then it has no "cost" at all. It does not take up CPU cycles (PR/SM ignores it) and it does not have any memory assigned to it. Just a few bytes in the HSA to define it. Very minimal. Or am I off in left field again? -- John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
