LPAR Combination Section


This section displays the combination of LPARs that are specified on the LPARCOMB statement and their highest rolling four-hour MSU per hour.

This value helps assess the license charge of those Variable Workload License Charge (VWLC) products that are active either all the time or during periods of peak CPU utilization. The combination with the description ALL LPARS (consisting of all LPARs), when present, is displayed first. Other combinations are displayed in the same order as the LPARCOMB statements that specify the combinations.

An example of the LPAR Combination Section of the CPU Utilization Report is shown in the following figure. This sample section is produced by these control statements:

CPU
LPARCOMB DESC='DB2 SYSTEMS',LPARS=(DB2A,DB2B)
LPARCOMB DESC='SAN JOSE SYSTEMS',LPARS=(SJSD,SJSE)
PRODUCED BY CMF ANALYZER (v.r.mm  RSL yymm )            CPU UTILIZATION REPORT                          RPTSEQ     3 PAGE     13
 BMC SOFTWARE, INC.                                            XYZ Company                            REPORT DATE: 10 SEP 16 23.21
 ACTL 04 SEP 16 11.30.00  08 SEP 16 15.00.01                  WORLDWIDE HEADQUARTERS                  SYSTEM ID: SJSC     Z 2.02.0


 BASED ON REC TYPE/# RECS/# SAMPLES/REC HOURS:  70-1/396/356K/98.79
----------------------------------------------------  LPAR COMBINATION SECTION  ----------------------------------------------------
                                   -HIGH 4-HOUR MSU/HOUR-  ------------------------ LPAR ------------------------  --EXCLUDED LPARS--
     COMBINATION DESCRIPTION        MSU   TIME    DATE     LPAR     MSU  LPAR     MSU  LPAR     MSU  LPAR     MSU    LPAR     REASON
 --------------------------------  ----  -----  ---------  ------------  ------------  ------------  ------------  --------  --------
 ALL LPARS                          943  15:15  07 SEP 16  SJSC      94  SJSB      21  SJSD      57  SJSG     ---  CF11      ICF PROC
                                                           SJSH      33  SYSI     ---  SYSM      35  SYSN      39  CF12      ICF PROC
                                                           SYSP      32  VMR       94  VM5       38  DB2A      42  CF13      ICF PROC
                                                           DB2B     145  ESAJ      52  ESAM     ---  IMSA      59  CF16      ICF PROC
                                                           IOC2       2  QAC1      29  QAC2      12  QAC3      34  CF15      ICF PROC
                                                           SJSE     ---  SYSO     ---  VM4       15  VM9       53  ZAI1      IFL PROC
                                                           BMCA      10  BMCB       7  QAC4      16  QAC5      22  CF0B      ICF PROC
                                                           VMG2     ---  VMM        1  ZAI2     ---  VERN     ---  VMZ       IFL PROC

LPAR Combination Section field descriptions

The table below describes each field in the LPAR Combination Section of the CPU Utilization Report.

Field

Description

COMBINATION DESCRIPTION

description of the LPAR combination

An asterisk (*) following this description indicates that the description is not unique among the listed LPAR combinations.

HIGH 4-HOUR MSU/HOUR

MSU

highest four-hour MSU/hour consumed by the LPAR combination

If the input records do not cover any four-hour periods or no LPAR member of the combination had been active for four contiguous hours, NO 4-HOUR PERIODS is displayed.

TIME, DATE

time and date when the highest four-hour MSU/hour value occurred

LPARS

LPAR

name of the LPARs in the combination (including LPARs that were always inactive)

MSU

four-hour MSU/hour of this LPAR at the time when the highest four-hour MSU/hour of the LPAR combination occurred

If three dashes (---) appear, this LPAR had not been active for four hours.

EXCLUDED LPARS

LPARs that were excluded from the calculation of the highest four-hour MSU/hour

LPAR

name of LPAR

REASON

ABSENT

LPAR was not found in the input SMF type 70 records

ICF PROC

LPAR used ICF processors and hence is not MVS partitions

DED PROC

a remote LPAR had dedicated processors; there is not enough information in the SMF type 70 CPU record to calculate MSU usage

WAIT YES

a remote LPAR had the attribute Wait Completion set to Yes; there is not enough information in the SMF type 70 CPU record to calculate MSU usage

Note

If only one remote LPAR is excluded because of DED PROC or WAIT YES, generate this report on the SMF records produced on the excluded LPAR. The LPAR will then be the local LPAR, and MSU usage can then be calculated.

 

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