Hello Peter,
Your comment Do you need every last CPU cycle for your production z/OS? LPAR is better here. I was told my some hardware and software people that the LPAR uses the same amount of horsepower as would z/VM running the Same machines. But the LPAR code just hides that usage. For a given CPU/engines and set number of LPARs compared to the same configuration but z/VM, the through put was the same. Could someone comment on this, please? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-588-4723 ext 40441 ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ward, Mike S Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 6:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Lpar Vs VM Thanks for the reply. Yours seems to be the best so far. I wanted to try and figure the cost of setting up multiple z/OS machines in a fairly quick manner. As I remember the old VM/BSEPP you could run as many operating systems as you wanted under VM and be charged for only 1 copy of the operating system. That doesn't seem to be the case using LPAR's . It seems that we get billed for running z/os on Lpar 1 and Lpar 2. They gather the amount from the SMF records that are produced. That's why I was wondering if I would get billed for multiple z/os virtual machines under z/VM.
