What determines the required PVU entitlements for a Software license?
The required PVU entitlements for the middleware Software license are determined by the multiplication of (A) the PVU per core rating and (B) the total number of processor cores of the server on which the middleware is installed. For example, 2 cores * 50PVU per core = 100 PVU. (A) PVU per core rating IBM’s PVU metric is used to differentiate the processor technology on which the middleware is installed. A PVU per processor core rating is assigned to each processor technology, as represented in the IBM PVU table for servers (for desktops, laptops and workstations, please refer to the assigned section in this FAQ). A processor technology and the corresponding PVU per core rating are characterized by five attributes: • Processor Vendor: AMD, HP, Fujitsu, IBM, Intel or (Oracle) Sun • Processor Brand: i.e. Itanium, Opteron, POWER6, Xeon, etc. • Processor Type: i.e. One-core, Dual-core (two cores per socket), Quad-core, etc. • Processor Socket: Maximum sockets possible on server. • Processo
