Tuesday, January 17, 2012

How to calculate Lotus Domino Licensing - PVU count

IBM link  http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/passportadvantage/pvu_licensing_for_customers.html
provides details on determining the PVU count


If suppose the Configuration is
Server Hardware is IBM
Model System x3850 X5
CPU Cores 16
Processor Type : Intel (R) Xeon(R) CPU E7-8837 @2.67 GHz
Processor Sockets: 2
Cores per Socket : 8


And If there are 4 (VM) Lotus Domino Servers each with 2 cores , then total number of PVUs required will be 140*4 =  560

If the Server is Virtualised (VMware) and only 2 cores are assigned per Virtual Macine (VM) then PVU will be 2*70 = 140  
Value Units per core is 70  <- this is as per the PVU table in specified in IBM link
 

Further reading
IBM Lotus Notes and Domino licensing

2 comments:

  1. Hi,

    i know this is an old post. but quick question. if i have a cold site for disaster recovery. do I need to have license for those VM replicated from my main data centre?

    thank you in advance and best regard

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