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z/OS 2.3 Memory Requirements on z14
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Mike Smith
6 years ago
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Can anyone share their experiences running z/OS 2.3 on a z14 or z14 ZR1 in an LPAR with less than the required 8GB of memory? Other than having to respond to the warning message during IPL, have any negative effects been experienced?

Background:
Excerpt From: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.e0zm100/BCP_zNext_Memory_Reqs_V2R3.htm

Ensure that enough real memory is installed

Description

For z/OS V2R3 with the IBM z14™ (z14) server, a minimum of 8 GB of real memory is required to IPL. When running as a z/VM guest or on an IBM Z® Personal Development Tool (zPDT), a minimum of 2 GB is required for z/OS V2R3.

If you attempt to IPL z/OS V2R3 on a z14 with less than the minimum amount of real memory, z/OS issues the following warning message (a WTOR) during IPL:
IAR057D LESS THAN 8 GB OF REAL STORAGE IMPACTS SYSTEM AVAILABILITY - ADD STORAGE OR
REPLY C TO CONTINUE

Continuing with less than the minimum amount of real memory might impact the availability of your system. If you attempt to IPL z/OS V2R3 on an earlier IBM server, no warning message is issued.

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R.S.
6 years ago
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IMHO it is not worth testing time.
Yes, the system itselft can work with less than 8GB (see z/VM or z/PDT),
but the system with subsystems started may not perform well.
In my shop 16GB is minimal amount of memory assigned to LPAR. It can be
doubled, tripled, etc.
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Lizette Koehler
6 years ago
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Maybe I am incorrect, but I thought when you ordered a z14 it could come with triple the amount of memory for the same cost of memory you were currently paying.

For example, if you were using on a NON z14 8G, then when you order a z14 it could done with 24G but at the same price as the 8G memory.

Or was that one of IBM's wild marketing promises.

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Michael Babcock
6 years ago
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When we ordered our ZR1 we still had to specify the amount of memory we
wanted. We did order substantially more central storage. I don’t know
the costs involved so can’t directly answer your question.
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Laurence Chiu
6 years ago
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We ordered our ZR1 with 96G of memory since that was recommended based on
our planned usage and growth.

Not sure how much was the memory component but small in terms of the other
components.
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Charles Mills
6 years ago
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I certainly heard that offer several times. I'm not a customer; I heard it as an IBM "partner."

Charles

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Subject: Re: z/OS 2.3 Memory Requirements on z14

Maybe I am incorrect, but I thought when you ordered a z14 it could come with triple the amount of memory for the same cost of memory you were currently paying.

For example, if you were using on a NON z14 8G, then when you order a z14 it could done with 24G but at the same price as the 8G memory.

Or was that one of IBM's wild marketing promises.

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Mike Smith
6 years ago
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Not quite. The minimum amount of memory on a z14 ZR1 is 64GB (256GB on the larger z14).

At first, 64GB sounds like "plenty." But if you are supporting a number of LPARs with small memory allocations, you can use of the 64GB pretty quickly.

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Subject: Re: z/OS 2.3 Memory Requirements on z14

Maybe I am incorrect, but I thought when you ordered a z14 it could come with triple the amount of memory for the same cost of memory you were currently paying.

For example, if you were using on a NON z14 8G, then when you order a z14 it could done with 24G but at the same price as the 8G memory.

Or was that one of IBM's wild marketing promises.

Lizette
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R.S.
6 years ago
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Post by Mike Smith
Not quite. The minimum amount of memory on a z14 ZR1 is 64GB (256GB on the larger z14).
At first, 64GB sounds like "plenty." But if you are supporting a number of LPARs with small memory allocations, you can use of the 64GB pretty quickly.
Any amount of memory can be divided into "many enough" LPARs just to
have memory shortage.
IMHO it's simply unreasonable to purchase such expensive machine lika
z14 with lack of such inexpensvie resource like memory.

64GB is rich configuration for desktop PC nowadays (mine has 32GB, cause
it's standard).
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Martin Packer
6 years ago
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Which is interesting when you consider that most (Windows) PCs are
single-user machines. Macs, BTW, tend to do well in the 8-16GB of memory
range.

So, an 8GB (strongly urged) minimum for a massively multi-user machine
such as z14 isn't really a lot.

And, yes, I know memory usage patterns vary wildly between operating
environments.

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Date: 26/02/2019 09:33
Subject: Re: z/OS 2.3 Memory Requirements on z14
Post by Mike Smith
Not quite. The minimum amount of memory on a z14 ZR1 is 64GB (256GB on the larger z14).
At first, 64GB sounds like "plenty." But if you are supporting a
number of LPARs with small memory allocations, you can use of the 64GB
pretty quickly.
Any amount of memory can be divided into "many enough" LPARs just to
have memory shortage.
IMHO it's simply unreasonable to purchase such expensive machine lika
z14 with lack of such inexpensvie resource like memory.

64GB is rich configuration for desktop PC nowadays (mine has 32GB, cause
it's standard).
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Lodz, Poland




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Parwez Hamid
6 years ago
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All Z systems have a certain amount of minimum memory for customer use in the base system configuration. In addition to this 'customer' memory there is memory for the HSA - again included in the base configuration. If required, customers can purchase extra memory up to the maximum limit for the System.

z14 M/T 3906, Minimum = 256 GB, Standard HSA = 192 GB
z14 M/T 3907, Minimum = 64 GB, Standard HSA = 64 GB
z13 M/T 2964, Minimum = 64 GB, Standard HSA = 96 GB
z13s M/T 2965, Minimum = 64 GB, Standard HSA = 40 GB

For other systems, refer to announcement letters or Redbooks.

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Parwez Hamid
6 years ago
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My response about memory sizes was purely to correct/inform the misinformed folks who were quoting all sorts of numbers
for the different Systems and stating what IBM or its marketing folks did/did not do :-)

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Jesse 1 Robinson
6 years ago
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When IBM broached this restriction at SHARE a few years ago in a closed technical session, I was verklempt. We had several LPARs way smaller than the proposed minimum. IBM's argument was that a potpourri of pesky problems were found to stem from puny LPAR sizing. As it is we've had no trouble meeting the minimum on our current boxes.

The amount of blood, sweat, and tears squandered on size-related problems was far out of proportion to the cost of some extra memory.

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Forgot to add, this is a "soft" requirement implemented in z/OS 2.3.
i.e. z/OS will run in < 8GB, but if the LPAR is too small, strange things my happen.

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Subject: RE: z/OS 2.3 Memory Requirements on z14

The storage for the HSA is separate from the "orderable" storage. This has been true for several hardware generations.
AFAIK, this memory size if fixed and cannot be changed.

This has nothing to do with the OP's question.

The OP wanted to know if there was any impact beyond replying to the warning WTOR @ IPL time if the storage allocated to the LPAR was < 8GB.

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Sent: Monday, February 25, 2019 5:53 PM
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Subject: Re: z/OS 2.3 Memory Requirements on z14

All Z systems have a certain amount of minimum memory for customer use in the base system configuration. In addition to this 'customer' memory there is memory for the HSA - again included in the base configuration. If required, customers can purchase extra memory up to the maximum limit for the System.

z14 M/T 3906, Minimum = 256 GB, Standard HSA = 192 GB
z14 M/T 3907, Minimum = 64 GB, Standard HSA = 64 GB
z13 M/T 2964, Minimum = 64 GB, Standard HSA = 96 GB z13s M/T 2965, Minimum = 64 GB, Standard HSA = 40 GB

For other systems, refer to announcement letters or Redbooks.


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