>From a cost perspective, the software companines will charge you for the
>number of IFL engines you have on a box in which you run the software.
So if you are running HATS on a single IFL box, you get charged for one copy.
If you run HATS on your dual IFL box, you get charged for two copies.
Same for z/VM, except for VM you also have to include the 390 engines.
However, some companies have price breaks for multiple CPU systems. VM, for
example, starts getting cheaper for each additional engine after a certain
point. There might be a point with HATS, but I doubt there is any play with a
2 IFL system.
If you have new boxes, you can talk with your business partner about software
discounts.
BTW, trial of HATS is free. Don't start paying for licenses until you need to.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
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>>> Brian France <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/21/2007 10:00 AM >>>
Folks,
I've done about a 45 minute search and I think my answer is that
I'd have to run multiple VM's per frame but wanted to ensure I was
right. My management wants to run some product called HATS on our
VM/MFL world. We recently upgraded from our z/890's with 1 IFL each
to z9BC's with 2 IFL's each. I guess to keep costs down they want to
run on one IFL this HATS worlds so the question to me was can I run a
single VM with BOTH IFL's allocated but alot the HATS world only 1
IFL. Is this possible with VM config parms or some other way like
maybe my HMC which I just thought of but haven't looked at yet. I
know we have to lic Suse for more engines. Just more interested in is
it even doable. THANX!!!!
Brian W. France
Systems Administrator (Mainframe)
Pennsylvania State University
Administrative Information Services - Infrastructure/SYSARC
Rm 25 Shields Bldg., University Park, Pa. 16802
814-863-4739
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