Sub-capacity licensing refers to licensing an SAP product on a subset of the CPUs available on a physical machine. Event Stream Processor supports sub-capacity licensing through SySAM virtualizaton.
| Vendor | Product | Platform Support | Virtualization Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intel, AMD | VMWare ESX Server* Guest OS: Windows | VMWare ESX 3.5, ESX 4.0 and ESX 4.1, Guest OS: Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows XP | Virtual machine |
| Intel, AMD | VMWare ESXi Server* Guest OS: Windows | VMWare ESXi 4.1, 5.0 Guest OS: Windows 2008, Windows 7, Windows XP | Virtual machine |
| Intel, AMD | Xen,** DomainU: Windows | Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7 | Virtual machine |
| Intel, AMD | KVM: Windows | Windows 2008, Windows 7, Windows XP | Virtual machine |
| Microsoft | Hyper-V: Windows | Windows 2008, Windows 7, Windows XP | Virtual machine |
* VMWare ESX Server and ESXi Server support excludes VMWare Workstation, and VMWare Server.
** Xen excludes Solaris x64.