<span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">My suggestion for this
question is that it should be directed to your IBM sales team and not the
Spectrum Scale support team. My reading of the information you provided
is that your processor counts as 2 cores. As for the PVU value my
guess is that at a minimum it is 50 but again that should be a question
for your IBM sales team.</span>
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<br><span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">One other option is
to switch from processor based licensing for Scale to storage (TB) based
licensing. I think one of the reasons for storage based licensing
was to avoid issues like the one you are raising.</span>
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<br><span style=" font-size:9pt;color:#5f5f5f;font-family:sans-serif">From:
</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;font-family:sans-serif">Jonathan
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</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;font-family:sans-serif">[EXTERNAL]
[gpfsug-discuss] PVU question</span>
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<br><tt><span style=" font-size:10pt"><br>
Hum, it would appear there are gaps in IBM's PVU table. Specifically I
<br>
am looking at using a Pentium G4620 in a server<br>
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</span></tt><a href="https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/97460/intel-pentium-processor-g4620-3m-cache-3-70-ghz.html"><tt><span style=" font-size:10pt">https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/97460/intel-pentium-processor-g4620-3m-cache-3-70-ghz.html</span></tt></a><tt><span style=" font-size:10pt">
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It's dual core with ECC memory support all in a socket 1151. While a low
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spec it would be an upgrade from the Xeon E3113 currently in use and <br>
more than adequate for the job. A quad code CPU would more than double
<br>
the PVU for no performance gain so I am not keen to go there.<br>
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The only reason for the upgrade is the hardware is now getting on and <br>
finding spares on eBay is now getting hard (it's a Dell PowerEdge R300).<br>
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However it doesn't fit anywhere in the PVU table<br>
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</span></tt><a href="https://www.ibm.com/software/passportadvantage/pvu_licensing_for_customers.html"><tt><span style=" font-size:10pt">https://www.ibm.com/software/passportadvantage/pvu_licensing_for_customers.html</span></tt></a><tt><span style=" font-size:10pt"><br>
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It's not a Xeon, it's not a Core, it's not AMD and it's not single core.
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It won't be in a laptop, desktop or workstation so that rules out that
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PVU calculation.<br>
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Does that mean zero PVU :-) or it's not supported or what?<br>
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Customer support where hopeless in answering my query. Then again IBM <br>
think I need GDPR stickers for returning a memory DIMM.<br>
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JAB<br>
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