Look at 'Defined Capacity'. This allows you to set a MSU cap at 4 hour rolling average per LPAR. The 4 hour average will allow you to exceed the cap as long as the 4HrA does not exceed the cap. This is good if your workload has peak demand beyond 28 MSU but only for a short time (LT 4 Hr). I have heard/read somewhere (possibly what Eric refers to) that due to rounding/reporting you could consistently achieve a little more than the cap (say up to +1) with no ill effects. If you are using VWLC then IBM will not charge more than defined capacity even if it is exceeded for some reason.
The only other way you could cap would to define and activate a third LPAR (no OS needed) and hard cap all LPARs so your 2 'real' LPARs have 28 MSU and the 'dummy' third has 4 MSU. Unfortunately I know of no way to 'share' a cap between 2+ LPARs (but really really wish I could). Ken Porowski AVP Systems Software CIT Group E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- Eric N. Bielefeld Jon, Why do you want to cap it at 28 MSU? I can't give you an answer to your question, but I remember a presentation givin by Rick Ralston, who used to belong to the Midwest Computer Measurement Group (MCMG). There was some form of Lpar capping that you could put in, and it gave you several MSUs for free. I probably threw away the presentation, so I can't give you the exact details. You might be able to pay for 28 MSUs, but when demand is there, you can use the whole 32 MSUs. Eric Bielefeld ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
