Support for Licensed Program Products in EP 2.0

Starting with CMC v1.20.0, license entitlements for PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX V7 Standard Edition, PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX V7 Enterprise Edition and PowerHA SystemMirror for IBM i V7.5 and V7.4 Enterprise Edition are enabled as base and metered capacity resources in an Enterprise Pool 2.0.  Metered capacity charges for minutes of PowerHA SystemMirror use exceeding the pool’s base of respective PowerHA SystemMirror license entitlements will be charged by the minute. 

The PowerHA SystemMirror licenses that you purchase are listed in VSN details and System details on the EP 2.0 Inventory page. To initiate and enable the monitoring of shared base and metered capacity of PowerHA SystemMirror, you must tag every partition running PowerHA SystemMirror with the appropriate reserved CMC tag based upon the PowerHA Edition being run in the partition. The following are the reserved tags for PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX:

• PowerHA Standard
• PowerHA Enterprise

The unused base PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX Enterprise Edition licenses can be used to offset PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX Standard Edition usage.

The reserved tag to be added to all partitions running PowerHA SystemMirror for IBM i is PowerHA IBM I.  IBM i P30 tier partitions use PowerHA SystemMirror for IBM i medium tier base and metered capacity rates.  IBM i P20 tier partitions and IBM i P10 tier partitions use PowerHA SystemMirror for IBM i small tier base and metered capacity rates.  Unused base PowerHA SystemMirror for IBM i medium tier licenses can be used to offset PowerHA SystemMirror for IBM i small tier usage.

Note that PowerHA SystemMirror core usage is not measured independently from the core usage of the tagged partitions and is therefore equal to the core usage of the PowerHA tagged partitions for pool tracking purposes.

If you choose not to enable the monitoring of shared base and metered capacity of PowerHA SystemMirror by tagging every partition running PowerHA SystemMirror, you are required to purchase enough PowerHA SystemMirror entitlement for peak capacity across the systems in the pool.