Not everyone is that understanding. You're lucky. Do you have a CF and a number of boxes hooked to it ? Sorry for coming in on the end of the conversation but I am curious. - Paul Hanrahan
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shane Ginnane Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 9:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Defined Capacity vs. Capping > Going to be turning on my new z990 this weekend (figures - now I hear > IBM is about to announce some new boxes soon). Classically we have > hard capped our 5 LPARs (contractual restrictions) but to me it seems > that using 'defined capacity' would be beneficial. > > Only 'problem' I have is that it is theoretically possible to exceed > the 'defined capacity' and have a 'soft cap' kick in which could hurt > my applications. I think Ted is pretty well on the money. We tried defined capacity on one of our clients from day 1 - cost containment attempt. End of year processing demanded a few more MSUs got thrown at the Prod LPARs. Worked out pretty well. Cost went up, but was known in advance. Business units knew about it, and agreed to pay. Got wound back as things flattened out. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
