----SNARK ENGAGED One of my absolute favorite things in my daily job is PVU's. I just loving being the bad news bear to a customer that was sold the wrong thing. ---SNARK DISENGAGED
I get asked this a lot:
How do I know how many PVU's I need for Domino?
For this post I am presuming you are running a physical Domino server (aka 'full capacity licensing'). Virtual will be covered in a later post. This also presumes Intel architecture.
If you know the steps it is pretty straightforward:
1) Find out the CPU count, model and cores. 2) Use the PVU calculator to give you a heart attack 3) Pay IBM tons of money because you are so far out of compliance you can see Uranus from where you are
Simple eh?
OK, a bit more detail.....
1) On the server in question where Domino is running (I'm presuming Windows, if you are a Linux doobie surely you know what make and model of CPU you are running) open the 'System' applet from the 'Control Panel':
Take a note of the CPU model number (in this case an Intel Xeon X5450).
2) Using Google (or Newegg which I prefer) go find out how many cores there are in this model of CPUs. Here is the above CPU from Newegg:
As you can see it is quad-core.
Next find out how many CPUs are installed on the system by rebooting and going into BIOS or asking you hardware guy. I have two CPUs in my example server. So that is eight cores in total.
Another alternative is to use CPUID if you are able to install software on the server.
On a side topic, some may suggest looking at device manager, but hyperthreading can cause that number to double.
2) With the model (X5450) and the core count (eight) I will now either call STS or go to the dreaded PVU calculator provided by IBM. The actual table illustrated below is available here and should be checked periodically for new additions.
With my model number in hand (5450), I match that to the "Processor Model Number" shown in red. I then record the "PVUs per Core" result from the same row, shown in blue (in this case 50).
With the number of cores (8) and the PUVs per core (50) I now do some math. Basically I multiply one with the other:
8 x 50 = 400
The total PUVs required to run Domino on this server is 400 PVUs. You only have 100 right? ;)
3) There are ways around this rather huge price. One is to virtualize the server, the other to change your licenses to something more suitable to your size of business. Again STS can help with that.
Note There are certain products and entitlements that don't require PVUs but that is probably another post. If you are PVU licensed then you also require Domino licenses for and Traveler and BES servers in your domain.
Also, any change or upgrade to the actual server may require more licenses. For example when we upgrade the example server to Intel Xeon 56xx CPU (aka Westmere) then the PVU calculation changes too. It goes up to 70 PVUs per core. Similarity going from a dual core to a quad or six core CPU changes the total.
Enabling DAOS on the Domino mail template
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Setting up IBM HTTP Server to redirect all traffic to HTTPS when fronting Domino (I guess this is part 3???)
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Exporting Domino SSL keyfiles to another format for use with IHS
Tue, May 28th 2013 2:31p Darren Duke In my last post I'd indicated that IBM HTTP Server (IHS) is included with Domino 9 on Windows and that I think this is a pretty good addition (if cop out). Anyway, you most likely already have an SSL certificate on Domino for web mail or Traveler and with IHS in front of Domino you now want to move that SSL certificate to IHS. As you most likely know Domino's SSL key format is a tad esoteric so how does one go about getting that pesky KYR format into the KDB format that IHS likes? I scoured [read] Keywords: domino
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IBM Domino now includes IBM HTTP Server - but how do you find it?
Wed, May 15th 2013 11:34a Darren Duke Well, first you probably want to know why IBM added the IBM HTTP Server (IHS) to Domino.....basically to allow Domino to do TLS over HTTP (which native Domino HTTP cannot do....it can do TLS over SMTP but not HTTP), but I think it was also a roundabout "fix" some SSL scaling issues that Domino can have. So how do I get it? Well, it's built into the 9.0 installer for Windows Domino servers (other OSes, you are out of luck....complain via a PMR) but you only see it when you do a custom [read] Keywords: admin
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Running Domino on VMware or other "sub-capacity" platform? You know about ILMT right?
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Update to the Domino cluster post, when to use "SERVER_RESTRICTED"
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Integrating Lotus Notes (or is that IBM Notes) with TAPI so you can call from contacts
Mon, Apr 22nd 2013 3:57p Darren Duke While technically this *should* work with any TAPI provider I got it to work with an Avaya IP Office 500 which I see at a ton of SMB's. I like them too, nice pieces of kit. Anyway, thanks to Ulrich Krause's post on SearchDomino with code that can hook into TAPI I finally got around to trying to tie my Contact DB with the IP Phone. Here is how I did it.... Caveats: This is is on Windows 7 x64 Using the vendor provided TAPI driver, in this case Avaya that came with 4.2.46 user software [read] Keywords: agent
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PVU changes with new Intel CPUs - yes, just when you thought you knew Domino PVU calculations.....
Thu, Apr 18th 2013 4:09p Darren Duke Not sure when this happened, but IBM has now tiered the PVU requirements, which also affects Domino. This affects Intel CPUs (AMD are still all 50 PVUs per core) Basically this tiered approach requires you to have a higher number of PVUs per core the more sockets you have in a single server. It's basically this: 4 sockets : 120 PVUs per core So just when you thought there was no way on earth you could hate the evil that is PVU, well....you were misguided. This seems to be a high en [read] Keywords: domino
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Stop users accidentally connecting to passive Domino cluster servers
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