We also do capacity plans at Syzygy for our clients for free. Plus we
perform system audits which can be used for this decision as well, but a
simple capacity plan is all you really need to do.
It's difficult to tell what you should get CPU-wise without actual physical
data to base it on.
If your workload is mainly DB2 and CICS these products used to run on other
platforms. Have you investigated a Windows Server? To keep it IBM you could
look at a P series running AIX or Linux. May be faster and cheaper than Z.
Perhaps moving part of the workload to another platform could offer
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:43:35 -0500, Brian Westerman
brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com wrote:
Also, if you are
running (or going to run) z/OS 1.11, there is new support for using them
interchangeably with each other (zIIPs and zAAPs).
Not quite. The support is for zAAP on zIIP. Not the other way
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Hi,
If having the choice between a z10-BC with 2 or 3 processors,
and if NOT taking (or having to take) into account the price aspect,
is it possible to investigate wether a 2- or a 3-processor system might
*** cross-posted in IBM-MAIN, CICS-L, DB2-L ***
Hi,
If having the choice between a z10-BC with 2 or 3 processors,
and if NOT taking (or having to take) into account the price aspect,
is it possible to investigate wether a 2- or a 3-processor system might better
suit us?
I assume it may be
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Hi,
If having the choice between a z10-BC with 2 or 3 processors,
and if NOT taking (or having to take) into account the price aspect,
is it possible to investigate
, 2009 9:38 AM
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Subject: additional processor?
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Hi,
If having the choice between a z10-BC with 2 or 3 processors,
and if NOT taking (or having to take) into account the price aspect,
is it possible to investigate wether a 2
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Hi,
If having the choice between a z10-BC with 2 or 3 processors,
and if NOT taking
It's best to have IBM commission a Capacity Study.
Having a vendor doing a Capacity Study is akin to:
The Farmer yells into the henhouse:
How's it going?
The Fox yells back:
Send in more chickens!
You can supply them with a peak usage week of SMF/RMF data usually at no cost.
I've not seen
MacNEIL
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 11:29 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: additional processor?
It's best to have IBM commission a Capacity Study.
Having a vendor doing a Capacity Study is akin to:
The Farmer yells into the henhouse:
How's it going?
The Fox yells back:
Send in more
: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 11:29 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: additional processor?
It's best to have IBM commission a Capacity Study.
Having a vendor doing a Capacity Study is akin to:
The Farmer yells into the henhouse:
How's it going?
The Fox yells back:
Send in more
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote:
It's best to have IBM commission a Capacity Study.
snip
You can supply them with a peak usage week of SMF/RMF data usually at no
cost.
I've not seen it at no cost for years.
The last one I was involved in/hired for
, 2009 9:36 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: additional processor?
Google for fewer faster and you'll find some articles and post on
that.
It,
of course depend on your workload. If you have long running jobs, they
would
run as fast as the single processor speed...
Itschak
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Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 1:02 PM
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Few faster maybe, but when few becomes one, it is time to run
Our sales team does capacity studies for us all the time (at least annually),
and I haven't seen them distort any numbers either.
Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca 10/13/2009 11:28 AM
It's best to have IBM commission a Capacity Study.
Having a vendor doing a Capacity Study is akin to:
The
Our sales team does capacity studies for us all the time (at least annually),
and I haven't seen them distort any numbers either.
Interesting.
I never said anything about distorting numbers.
Statistics is just a matter of interpretation.
-
Too busy driving to stop for gas!
---snip---
Having a vendor doing a Capacity Study is akin to:
The Farmer yells into the henhouse:
How's it going?
The Fox yells back:
Send in more chickens!
-unsnip--
That's not
That's not necessarily true.
What's not true?
I said akin to (meaning like), not the same as.
7Can anyone tell if George Crane still runs SNAPSHOT, at Raleigh??
I had it done by somebody in South Carolina.
Could be expensive
NOT could be -- is!
but it's generaly pretty accurate and George
Shameless plug... Mainline, Inc. did our at no cost
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