Hopefully you did a study to see how many Oracle DB's will run on your 5 IFL's. - Studies can also be used to help you properly size your DR environment, in addition to the effects of breaking them up into different LPAR's. .
Chances are (but not 100% given) that 4 LPAR's each with 5 IFL's defined to them with only 5 real ones available to run on maybe over committing a bit to much. If your sharing engines (like you most likely should) consider placing dev/test into a lower weighted LPAR and break them out like this: LPAR1 = 3 LPAR2 = 3 That would allow you to set at least 1 Linux guest to use up to 3 CPU's while helping to control your over commit. Note: You should of course really map this out with IBM or your BP to review goals. - Having a means to measure your system and track its behavior as you grow is also important. - If you have a great performance product, chances are they come with a team of folks that will help you on things like this as well. - And if you ask me, it's better to have them engaged early over trying to scramble to get them engaged as they can really help you set realistic expectations. BTW, here is a link for the Oracle z Systems special interest group (SIG) web site. http://zseriesoraclesig.org/ Lots of great material from past sessions is available from it. I did talk to some of the team working on it recently and they do plan to have this years info updated soon. - They did confirm DC as reported from last years event. Enjoy and good luck, Kurt On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 6:12 AM, Johan Schelling <johan.schell...@icu-it.nl> wrote: > I believe that’s correct. > But keep in mind that also IFL’s on a DR system (active or CBU) can be > seen (by Oracle) as real cores Oracle can run on. > So if you have 5 active IFL’s and 5 CBU IFL’s on a DR machine this could > mean that you need licenses for 10 IFL’s….. > But as Kurt said, this depends entirely on the negotiations with Oracle. > > Johan Schelling > Infrastructure Solution Architect > > > > > > ICU IT Services BV > Transistorstraat 55b I 1322 CK ALMERE > > M 06 – 21 245 992 I E johan.schell...@icu-it.nl <mailto: > johan.schell...@icu-it.nl> > T 088 – 5 234 123 I www.icu-it.nl <http://www.icu-it.nl/> I KvK > 32135776 > > > Op 13 feb. 2017, om 11:34 heeft Bfishing <bfish...@gmail.com> het > volgende geschreven: > > > > My understanding, noting that everyone has to do there own negotiating > with > > Oracle, is they charge for all real cores Oracle can run on. 5 IFL'S = 5 > > cores. Cores in reserve should not matter. > > > > How you set up your lpar's really depends on goals. > > > > The Oracle z Linux SIG is still being worked on for April in DC this year > > (so I heard). That is of course a really great place to talk to Oracle > and > > peers about stuff like this. > > > > Good luck, > > Kurt > > > > On Feb 13, 2017 5:02 AM, "Guest, Darren" <darren.gu...@uk.experian.com> > > wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> My understanding is that having 5 IFLs on each LPAR would mean you'd > have > >> to license all 10 IFLs on the box; the total of 20 logical IFLs would be > >> dispatched on all 10 physical IFLs. > >> > >> I believe that if your total logical IFLs is 5 or less then you would be > >> OK; only 5 physical IFLs worth could be running at any one time. Your > >> second example should also be OK for the same reason. > >> > >> This is purely my own personal understanding and shouldn't be relied > upon > >> in any arguments with Oracle! > >> > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Darren > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > >> mohd rizal > >> Sent: 13 February 2017 3:22 AM > >> To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > >> Subject: LinuxOne and Oracle License > >> > >> Hi All, > >> > >> We just bought LinuxOne machine purposely to run the Oracle database. > This > >> machine come with 10 IFLs. 4 LPARs will be created and z/VM ver 6.4 and > >> SUSE Linux will run on top of it. > >> > >> I have some issue regarding the Oracle license. Company only bought 5 > >> oracle license for this year and will buy the remaining 5 license next > year. > >> > >> In the HMC, can we give 5 IFL to all LPAR:- > >> LPAR1 = 5 IFL > >> LPAR2 = 5 IFL > >> LPAR3 = 5 IFL > >> LPAR4 = 5 IFL > >> > >> or we should setup like this;- > >> LPAR1 = 2 IFL > >> LPAR2 = 1 IFL > >> LPAR3 = 1 IFL > >> LPAR4 = 1 IFL > >> > >> I don't want to have any issue with the auditor team later on. 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