Comments on: Cut Oracle Costs on Mainframe

By: Shakir Sadikali

Shakir Sadikali — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:07:21 +0000

Hey Mr. Ed. It’s Yes, and No. Yes the base costs have been eliminated, however, the greater cost savings was due to the license. The single multi-CPU license covering all the vm’s vs many licenses was the deciding factor. My understanding was that you could provide each VM with a specific resource set (MIPS), so you can can actually let them have access to an actual number of CPU cycles, as opposed to processors.

By: Mr. Ed

Mr. Ed — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:30:02 +0000

To be clear, you’re running virtual machines on the z/OS, and the cost savings is because you’re eliminating the “base” cost of the other machines? For example, a 32-processor Oracle license on z/OS might be cheaper than 4 16-processor licenses on HPUX, and you can set up 4 virtual machines on the z/OS that, say, pool CPUs to provide each VM with 16 virtual processors?

By: sadikali

sadikali — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 03:19:20 +0000

Yeah, it’s pretty significant. Now, imagine you had 10 of these servers and you could move all of your machines’ work to ONE mainframe? While JCL is not my cup of tea, i can see why there are so many people drinking it! It’s saving on a completely differnt scale.

By: vidya

vidya — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:05:33 +0000

talking about bringing down license costs – the Solaris 10 container/ zone model will help shave off some per CPU costs if your Oracle Server does not utilize all the CPU resources.