Capacity on Demand allows you to activate processors and memory, paying for increased capacity as your needs grow, through the following offerings:
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Permanent capacity for non-disruptive growth
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Capacity Upgrade on Demand
: Provides a means of planned growth for clients who know they will need increased capacity but aren't sure when.
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Temporary capacity for fluctuating workloads (post-pay/contracts)
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On/Off Capacity on Demand
: Provides for planned and unplanned short-term growth driven by temporary processing requirements such as seasonal activity, period-end requirements or special promotions. Activation is user managed.
Note: Capacity BackUp (CBU) Editions provide "no-charge" On/Off CoD processor days that can be used for disaster recovery or for disaster testing.
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Temporary capacity for fluctuating workloads (pre-pay/ no contracts)
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Reserve Capacity on Demand
: Provides automated use of on demand processors for planned and unplanned short-term workloads which are run in a shared processor pool.
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Tempory capacity for fluctuating workloads (pre-pay/post-pay)
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Utility Capacity on Demand
: Utility CoD provides automated use of on demand processors from the shared processor pool for planned and unplanned short-term workloads on IBM POWER6 systems including the IBM system i 570.
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Temporary capacity for testing
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Trial Capacity on Demand
: Provides the flexibility to evaluate how additional resources will affect existing workloads, or to test new applications.
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Permanent access to advanced function
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Advanced Function on Demand
: Provides virtualization functions like LPAR, micro-partitioning, virtual I/O, or 5250 OLTP processing.
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Capacity Upgrade on Demand provides the ability to bring new capacity online quickly and easily. Processors and memory can be activated dynamically without interrupting system or partition operations. Processors can be activated in increments of 1 processor, while memory can be activated in increments of 1GB. As your workload demands require more processing power, you can activate inactive processors simply by placing an order for an activation feature. You can retrieve, over the Internet an electronically encrypted activation key that unlocks the desired amount of processors. There is no hardware to ship and install, and no additional contract is required.
Note: Accelerator features are special processor activations that can be used to increase the performance of a 1-way processor to it's full capacity.
On/Off CoD provides an innovative and flexible processor and memory activation capability for planned or predictable peek processing requirements. When you order an On/Off CoD feature, you receive an enablement key that "turns-on" the ability for a system operator to make requests for additional processor and memory capacity... as needed, in increments of 1 processor or 1GB of memory. The system monitors the amount and duration of the activations and generates a usage report which must be sent to IBM monthly (electronic or manual). Billing for the activations is then based on the usage report on a quarterly basis. You pay only for the processor days and memory days you requested.
Today's Capacity BackUp Editions take advantage of On/Off CoD. Capacity BackUp Editions typically come with a quantity of no charge On/Off CoD processor days. This means, after a CBU Edition is purchased, the client must order the On/Off CoD enablement feature (On/Off CoD contract must also be signed!) so that the resulting On/Off CoD enablement key can be entered on the CBU system. If the On/Off CoD enablement feature is not ordered and the resulting key entered... the customer will not be able to use the no-charge processor days for either a disaster recovery or disaster test.
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Reserve CoD automatically manages the temporary activation of CoD processors, based on the needs of the application workload. The user purchases a feature that is worth 30 Processor Days, he/she enters the provided key, and then assigns a quantity of inactive processors to the shared processor pool. The newly assigned processors are fully available to be used by any/all partitions within the shared pool. However, a processor day of use is only considered consumed when the workload of the shared pool exceeds 100% of the CPU Utilization associated with the base (permanently activated) processors in the shared processing pool.
Utility CoD is for customers with unpredicatable, short workload spikes who need an automated and affordable way to help assure adequate server performance is available as needed.
Use is measured in procesor minute increments and is reported by the customer at the Utility CoD website.
To pay for processor minutes (prepay or postpay) a customer orders Utiltiy CoD Billing Features.
Trial Capacity on Demand is provided when you make a request for trial capacity at the iSeries CoD Web site. After making the request, a key will be sent to your e-mail address.
You can make a Standard Request for two processor activations or 4 GBs of memory and you can make an Exception Request for all processors to be activated or all memory to be activated. The Standard Requests can be made after system installation and again after each purchase of a permanent processor activation. An Exception request can only be made one time , over the life of the machine and requires justification for the request.
Advanced Function on Demand is provided when you purchase an Advanced POWER Virtualization feature or an Enterprise Enablement feature.
Functions can be activated dynamically without interrupting system or partition operations. When needed, system virtualization is at your fingertips, you can activate functions like LPAR, micro-partitioning, virtual I/O, or 5250 OLTP by placing an order for an Advanced POWER Virtualization or Enterprise Enablement feature (each feature purchased unlocks one processor's worth of function). You can retrieve, over the Internet an electronically encrypted activation key that unlocks the desired processor function. There is no hardware to ship and install, and no additional contract is required.
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