Sub-capacity Licensing

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.

SySAM Virtualization Sub-capacity Compatibility
Vendor Product Platform Support Virtualization Type
Intel, AMD VMWare ESX Server Guest OS: Linux VMWare ESX 3.5, ESX 4.0 and ESX 4.1, Guest OS: RH 5.2, RH 5.5, RH 6, SuSE 11 Virtual machine
Intel, AMD VMWare ESXi Server Guest OS: Linux VMWare ESXi 4.1, 5.0 Guest OS: RH 5.x, RH6.x, SuSe 10, 11 Virtual machine
Intel, AMD Xen, DomainU: Linux RH 5.6, SuSe 11 Virtual machine
Intel, AMD KVM: Linux RH 5.x, 6.x Virtual machine