So to be clear, I have a single CEC with two GP's and one IFL. I'm told our z/VM license is for two CPU's. We are not using the IFL now.
If we were to begin using the IFL, our CPU count increases to three and our z/VM licensing cost would increase by one cpu. Is this correct? Thanks for the reply. ____________________ Jim Hughes Consulting Systems Programmer Mainframe Technical Support Group Department of Information Technology State of New Hampshire 27 Hazen Drive Concord, NH 03301 603-271-5586 Fax 603.271.1516 Statement of Confidentiality: The contents of this message are confidential. Any unauthorized disclosure, reproduction, use or dissemination (either whole or in part) is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message from your system. -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 3:55 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM and Linux On Friday, 04/01/2011 at 03:32 EDT, "Hughes, Jim" <jim.hug...@doit.nh.gov> wrote: > Is there an additional z/VM charge when running Linux in an IFL? We > already have z/VM 5.4 on a z/10. > > Just curious. Been out of the loop on licensing charges for a while. The charge for z/VM does not change based on the guests that are running, but on the CPUs available to z/VM. - If you have a z/VM LPAR on a CEC that contains GPs, count all GPs on the CEC. - If you have a z/VM LPAR on a CEC that contains IFLs, count all IFLs on the CEC. - Repeat for each CEC that has z/VM on it. (The CECs must have the same Enterprise ID.) - Add all the CPU numbers together. The price of z/VM is based on that total. Note that as the number of CPUs goes up, the average z/VM license cost per CPU goes down. (At your 4th CPU you start to see the price go down.) Alan Altmark z/VM and Linux on System z Consultant IBM System Lab Services and Training ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 alan_altm...@us.ibm.com IBM Endicott
