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C4040-251 · Question #54
A customer wants to save on IBM i licensing costs: They have three configurable processors and one IBM i license. - LPAR1 is running IBM i with .5 CPU - LPAR2 is running IBM i with .5 CPU - LPAR3 is…
The correct answer is A. Put the IBM i LPARs in a shared processor pool with one core. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
A customer wants to save on IBM i licensing costs:
They have three configurable processors and one IBM i license.
- LPAR1 is running IBM i with .5 CPU
- LPAR2 is running IBM i with .5 CPU
- LPAR3 is running AIX with 1 CPU
- All of the LPARs are uncapped.
- They want to limit the IBM i LPARs to using one core.
How can the customer enforce the limit and save on their IBM i licensing costs?
Options
- APut the IBM i LPARs in a shared processor pool with one core.
- BPut the AIX LPAR in a shared processor pool with one core.
- CSet the entitlement of each IBM i LPAR to "one"
- DChange the AIX partition to have .5 CPU entitlement.
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(27 responses)- A74% (20)
- B7% (2)
- C15% (4)
- D4% (1)
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