[gpfsug-discuss] PVU question

[IBM Spectrum Scale]

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.

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.

Regards, The Spectrum Scale (GPFS) team

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From:   Jonathan Buzzard <jonathan.buzzard at strath.ac.uk>
To:     gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org>
Date:   06/29/2021 09:47 AM
Subject:        [EXTERNAL] [gpfsug-discuss] PVU question
Sent by:        gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org




Hum, it would appear there are gaps in IBM's PVU table. Specifically I 
am looking at using a Pentium G4620 in a server

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/97460/intel-pentium-processor-g4620-3m-cache-3-70-ghz.html 


It's dual core with ECC memory support all in a socket 1151. While a low 
spec it would be an upgrade from the Xeon E3113 currently in use and 
more than adequate for the job. A quad code CPU would more than double 
the PVU for no performance gain so I am not keen to go there.

The only reason for the upgrade is the hardware is now getting on and 
finding spares on eBay is now getting hard (it's a Dell PowerEdge R300).

However it doesn't fit anywhere in the PVU table

https://www.ibm.com/software/passportadvantage/pvu_licensing_for_customers.html


It's not a Xeon, it's not a Core, it's not AMD and it's not single core. 
It won't be in a laptop, desktop or workstation so that rules out that 
PVU calculation.

Does that mean zero PVU :-) or it's not supported or what?

Customer support where hopeless in answering my query. Then again IBM 
think I need GDPR stickers for returning a memory DIMM.


JAB

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