IBM Power Systems Private Cloud Solution now offers monthly post-pay billing option for minutes of Metered Capacity consumption

IBM Europe Software Announcement ZP22-0083
May 3, 2022

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	Overview		Technical information
	Key requirements		Ordering information
	Planned availability date		Terms and conditions
	Program number		Prices
	Publications		Regional availability

Overview

The IBM® Power® Systems Private Cloud Solution with Shared Utility Capacity was initially launched with support to share hardware and software resources across a collection of on-premises IBM Power systems, with prepaid access to additional, fully active compute resources by the minute that were debited as used from Capacity Credits for Power on account.

Now, IBM is offering a new option to deploy a Power Private Cloud with Shared Utility Capacity infrastructure similar to other private cloud offerings, with monthly billing of consumed Metered Capacity resources. This option is offered in addition to and is not replacing the current option for prepaid Capacity Credits.

Clients will now be able to get a Pool ID without having Capacity Credits on account and select an option to receive invoicing on a monthly basis. This enhancement is designed to simplify and streamline the deployment of IBM Power9 and IBM Power10 technology-based systems in a Power Private Cloud infrastructure and reduce efforts to estimate how many Capacity Credits might be required to have on account. Clients will be able to assign a Pool ID, accept terms and conditions for billing through IBM or an authorized IBM Business Partner, and proceed to start a new Power Enterprise Pool.

When clients select the monthly billing option, any minutes of Metered Capacity resource consumed each month will be invoiced at the published rate of consumption for each resource through the following products designed to itemize billing:

IBM AIX® Metered Capacity (5765-AXM): Medium-tier and small-tier features; rate includes AIX and other installed, eligible products¹, such as IBM PowerVM®, IBM PowerVC, and IBM Cloud® Management Console for Power (CMC).
IBM i Metered Capacity (5770-SSM): P10, P20, and P30 tier features; rate includes IBM i and other installed, eligible products¹, such as PowerVM, PowerVC, and CMC.
SUSE Linux® Enterprise Server (SLES) Metered Capacity (5639-SLM): Medium-tier and small-tier features; rate includes SLES, SLES for SAP, and other installed, eligible products¹, such as PowerVM, PowerVC, and CMC.
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Metered Capacity (5639-RSM): Medium-tier and small-tier features; rate includes RHEL, RHEL for SAP for Power, and other installed, eligible products¹, such as PowerVM, PowerVC, and CMC.
OpenShift® Container Platform (OCP) Metered Capacity (5639-OSM): Medium-tier and small-tier features; rate includes OCP and other installed, eligible products¹, such as PowerVM, PowerVC, and CMC.

The CMC will continue to monitor and show the number of minutes consumed each month for each resource as well as the equivalent consumption of Capacity Credits consumed to help ensure consistency with prepaid deployments and to facilitate existing budgeting functions of the Enterprise Pools application.

Metered Capacity resource minutes consumed on Power systems will be billed based on a feature structure for each Product ID. These Product IDs are designed to bill a large, aggregate range of minutes consumed, based on the potential monthly use of each Metered Capacity resource. For example, for High-end Processor Activation resource usage, several features are defined to bill:

1 Minute High-end Processor Activation consumed
1 Hour x High-end Processor Activation consumed
1 x Day High-end Processor Activation consumed
1,000 x Days High-end Processor Activation consumed

¹ The eligible product list for Metered Capacity entitlement is published in the IBM License Supplement for IBM Power Systems -- Shared Utility Capacity on Enterprise Pools 2 (Z126-8404).

Key requirements

One or more Power9 or Power10 server, or a combination of the two, with Power Enterprise Pools 2.0 enablement feature EP20 configured, as well as the Base Processor feature, the Memory Activation feature, or a combination of the two configured, as applicable to the machine type model
One or more eligible operating system license or subscription with at least one core of entitlement included on each system

Planned availability date

May 13, 2022

Availability within a country is subject to local legal requirements.

Reference information

For more information, see Hardware Announcement ZG22-0041, dated May 3, 2022.

Program number

Program number	VRM	Program name
5765-AXM	1.1.0	AIX Metered Capacity
5770-SSM	1.1.0	IBM i Metered Capacity
5639-RHM	1.0.0	Red Hat Enterprise Linux and RHEL for SAP for Power Metered Capacity
5639-OSM	1.0.0	Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Metered Capacity
5639-SLM	1.0.0	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Metered Capacity

Offering Information

Product information is available on the IBM Offering Information website.

Publications

None

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Technical information

Specified operating environment

Hardware requirements

One or more Power9 or Power10 server, or a combination of the two, with Power Enterprise Pools 2.0 enablement feature EP20 configured, as well as the Base Processor feature, the Memory Activation feature, or a combination of the two configured, as applicable to the machine type model
One or more eligible operating system license or subscription with at least one core of entitlement included on each system

Software requirements

Not applicable

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New feature numbers

AIX Metered Capacity (5765-AXM) introduces the following feature numbers:

Program number	Feature description	OTC Feature number
5765-AXM	1000-days medium	V8P8BG
5765-AXM	1-day medium	V8P9BG
5765-AXM	1-hour medium	V8RABG
5765-AXM	1-minute medium	V8RBBG
5765-AXM	1000-days small	V8RCBG
5765-AXM	1-day small	V8RDBG
5765-AXM	1-hour small	V8REBG
5765-AXM	1-minute small	V8RFBG

Program number	Feature description	Process Option feature number
5765-AXM	First Digit of Pool ID	4001
5765-AXM	Second Digit of Pool ID	4002
5765-AXM	Third Digit of Pool ID	4003
5765-AXM	Fourth Digit of Pool ID	4004
5765-AXM	Year of Usage	4005
5765-AXM	Month of Usage	4006

IBM i Metered Capacity (5770-SSM) introduces the following feature numbers:

Program number	Feature description	OTC feature number
5770-SSM	1-day P10/P20 tier	V0MJBG
5770-SSM	1-hour P10/P20 tier	V0MKBG
5770-SSM	1000-day P10/P20 tier	V0MLBG
5770-SSM	1-minute P10/P20 tier	V0MMBG
5770-SSM	1-day P30 tier	V0MPBG
5770-SSM	1-hour P30 tier	V0MRBG
5770-SSM	1-minute P30 tier	V0MSBG
5770-SSM	1000-day P30 tier	V0MTBG

Program number	Feature description	Process option feature number
5770-SSM	First Digit of Pool ID	4001
5770-SSM	Second Digit of Pool ID	4002
5770-SSM	Third Digit of Pool ID	4003
5770-SSM	Fourth Digit of Pool ID	4004
5770-SSM	Year of Usage	4005
5770-SSM	Month of Usage	4006

Red Hat Metered Capacity (5639-RHM) introduces the following feature numbers:

Program number	Feature description	OTC feature number
5639-RHM	1-minute medium	VEGMBG
5639-RHM	1-hour medium	VEGKBG
5639-RHM	1-day medium	VEGJBG
5639-RHM	1000-days medium	VEGLBG
5639-RHM	1-minute small	VEGSBG
5639-RHM	1-hour small	VEGPBG
5639-RHM	1-day small	VEGRBG
5639-RHM	1000-days small	VEGTBG

Program number	Feature description	Process option feature number
5639-RHM	First Digit of Pool ID	4001
5639-RHM	Second Digit of Pool ID	4002
5639-RHM	Third Digit of Pool ID	4003
5639-RHM	Fourth Digit of Pool ID	4004
5639-RHM	Year of Usage	4005
5639-RHM	Month of Usage	4006

Openshift (CoreOS) Metered Capacity (5639-OSM) introduces the following feature numbers:

Program number	Feature description	OTC feature number
5639-OSM	1-minute medium	VEGUBG
5639-OSM	1-hour medium	VEGWBG
5639-OSM	1-day medium	VEGVBG
5639-OSM	1000-days medium	VEGXBG
5639-OSM	1-minute small	VEGZBG
5639-OSM	1-hour small	VEG1BG
5639-OSM	1-day small	VEG0BG
5639-OSM	1000-days small	VEG2BG

Program number	Feature description	Process option feature number
5639-OSM	First Digit of Pool ID	4001
5639-OSM	Second Digit of Pool ID	4002
5639-OSM	Third Digit of Pool ID	4003
5639-OSM	Fourth Digit of Pool ID	4004
5639-OSM	Year of Usage	4005
5639-OSM	Month of Usage	4006

SUSE Metered Capacity (5639-SLM) introduces the following feature numbers:

Program number	Feature description	OTC feature number
5639-SLM	1-minute medium	VEG3BG
5639-SLM	1-hour medium	VEG5BG
5639-SLM	1-day medium	VEG4BG
5639-SLM	1000-days medium	VEG6BG
5639-SLM	1-minute small	VEHABG
5639-SLM	1-hour small	VEG8BG
5639-SLM	1-day small	VEG9BG
5639-SLM	1000-days small	VEHBBG

Program number	Feature description	Process option feature number
5639-SLM	First Digit of Pool ID	4001
5639-SLM	Second Digit of Pool ID	4002
5639-SLM	Third Digit of Pool ID	4003
5639-SLM	Fourth Digit of Pool ID	4004
5639-SLM	Year of Usage	4005
5639-SLM	Month of Usage	4006

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