I agree with Al: it's per machine. After all the per machine calculations are made, there's a final step before billing: adding up the per machine peak 4HRAs for any qualifying Sysplexes.
There are some relatively unsurprising conclusions you can draw if you want to maximize efficiency: 1. Having a respectably small number of machines for the size of your particular workloads is generally wise. Parsimony is good. These are mainframes, and that's how they're designed. Said another way, LPARs work. Use them. 2. Having reasonably even load across your Sysplex is wise. Said another way, real Sysplexes with real workload sharing get the most Sysplex benefit. Technically qualifying Sysplexes may only get some benefit. Said yet another way, take advantage of Sysplex. Writing only for myself. - - - - - Timothy Sipples Resident Enterprise Architect Value Creation & Complex Deals Team IBM Growth Markets (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
