Miklos, If the MF and peripherals were purchased to service a single application then 0.5% usage would not matter. The whole CAPEX could be charged to that application and that would be it. This is the model that applies to most small server farms.
Even for larger UNIX servers the resources for a partition are fixed and divvying up the cost is relatively simple. Perhaps getting them to describe how they will allocate the CAPEX for a large server using virtualization such as Egenera or a VMWARE solution. For every million dollars 0.5% usage is $5000 charged against some managers bottom line, so you can bet a branch profit centre will not want to be funding $5000 of Human Resources IT costs. It is the "V" in MVS, VM and VSE that allows many applications to run in one server, and the other platforms will soon be finding that the "V" makes 0.5% CPU time matter. Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Miklos Szigetvari > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 7:30 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Price of CPU seconds > > Hi > > For me this more or less clear. > I have here a number of collegues from NT and Unix , and they don't > understand why the 0.5% CPU time is a matter: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
