vPars, CPU assignment and Mirrodisk/UX licensing consequences thereof

[Carl Houseman]

I've inherited an RP7420 w/12 processors and 2 vPars. When I look in vparmgr I see the following:

vPar #1:
User-bound CPUs: 0
Monitor-boound CPUs: 1
Unbound CPUs: 0
Minimum number of CPUs: 1
Maximum number of CPUs: 12
Assigned CPUs:
H/W path: 1.10 Bound by: Monitor

vPar #2:
User-bound CPUs: 0
Monitor-bound CPUs: 1
Unbound CPUs: 10
Mininum number of CPUs: 0
Maximum number of CPUs: 12
Assigned CPUs:
H/W path: 1.10 Bound by: Monitor
H/W path: (10 other CPUs) Bound by: Unbound

The overview screen in vparmgr tells me vPar 1 has 1 CPU and vPar 2 has 11 CPUs.

ioscan -kC processor tells me there are 11 processors in each vPar.

1. Given no loading on the other vPar, how many CPUs can each of these vPars actually put to work?

2. Given the above configuration, how much license capacity do I need to run Mirrordisk/UX on both vPars

3. If the answer to Part 2 is more than 12 CPU's worth of license, would I satisfy a license for 12-CPUs by modifying these vPars so that the total number of CPUs reported by ioscan in each adds up to 12? And would I do that by changing the maximum number of processors to, say, 8 and 4 respectively?

Thanks all.

[Luk Vandenbussche · Accepted solution]

Carl,

You need a CPU based mirror/UX license for each CPU physically installed in your server.

So you need a 12 CPU license

[Carl Houseman]

Luk, that is the answer I was hoping for in question 2.

I posed the same question to HP tech support and was told I needed to separately license Mirrordisk on each vPar as if they were two machines.

Do you know where I can find some official HP documentation that confirms your answer?

[Zinky]

AFAIK,

You license HP Software products by the Frame/Server and regardless of how many partitions (hard or soft/virtual) you plan to carve.

Either one of your 2 vPars can have a maximum of 11 CPUs with the other needing to have 1 CPU to stay up.

[Carl Houseman]

Nelson, I like that answer too. Given your answer, let me add another software product to the mix - GlancePlus. Should I be able to run it on both vPars with just one license?

thanks...

[Zinky]

Again, since GlancePlus is another HP-UX option (For Foundation OE at least), I believe you can use it on however many nPar or vPar you carve out of your n/vpartionable server.

With HP-UX Enterprise OE - MirrorDisk/UX and GlancePlus are part of the OE license and can therefore be used on all hard/soft partitions on the same server/frame. I believe the same holds true for Foundation OE where GlancePlus Pak/MirrorDisk/UX are licensed by the Server/Frame and not the partition...

[Carl Houseman]

At the risk of annoying you (sorry I didn't mention this in the prior question) ...

I also need a C++ compiler license on both vPars. Is that also part of the Foundation license?

And same question as before, still looking to see this in writing from HP. I may have it on paper somewhere in a (inherited, not-yet-gone-through) pile, but certainly they have this stuff online?

[Zinky]

Same thing, you buy a aCC/aCC++ license for your server (regardless of how many nPar/vPar you wish to carve). aCC/aCC++ (aka HP ANSI C Compliler) is not part of FOundation/Enterprise of Mission Critical OEs. You need a codeword/license to be able to install/extract them from the Application CDs.

Get hold of your friendly HP SalesTech...

[Carl Houseman]

Thanks to all. I eventually found a friendly HP source that knew HP-UX licensing.