About the Symantec Performance Value Unit

Last published : Jul 06, 2026
From the Storage Foundation and high availability 6.0 release, InfoScale uses the Symantec Performance Value Unit (SPVU) pricing method for Storage Foundation and high availability products. The total number of SPVUs required for a specific product is calculated by multiplying the number of cores used by the product with the SPVU value per core.
The SPVU per core is calculated based on the following:
  • The operating system on the host
  • The make and the model of the processor
  • The number of cores per processor
    Note: Version 7.2 is the minimum version of the InfoScale Operations Manager managed host to be installed on the host to calculate the SPVU. To calculate the SPVU for the products that run on IBM LPAR and kernel-based virtual machines, you need to install InfoScale Operations Manager managed host version 7.2 or later.
Based on these criteria, a host is assigned a specific SPVU value per core. The number of cores used by the physical and the virtual hosts is different. On the products that are deployed on a physical host, the SPVU is calculated for the actual cores used by the products. The number of cores used by all the products is the same on a physical host. For example, you have a physical host that has eight used cores, and you have installed Storage Foundation and Cluster Server on this host. To calculate the SPVU for this host, all the eight used cores are considered for both the products. Essentially, on a physical host, the number of used cores is the same for all the products that run on the same operating system.
For the virtualization servers, the SPVUs for the products are calculated differently for various types of virtualization servers. InfoScale Operations Manager can calculate the SPVUs required for the products that are installed on VMware, Solaris LDOM, the Solaris Zones virtualization servers, kernel-based virtual machines, and IBM LPAR.
The SPVU for Application HA is calculated only when it is deployed on Linux and Windows virtualization platforms.
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