SAP Sybase offers sub-capacity licensing options for SAP Sybase IQ Enterprise Edition. Sub-capacity licensing refers to licensing an SAP Sybase product on a subset of the CPUs available on a physical machine.
Sub-capacity licensing is supported on the following platforms:
Vendor | Product | Platform Support | Virtualization Type |
---|---|---|---|
HP | nPar | HP IA 11.31 | Physical Partition |
vPar | Virtual Partition | ||
Integrity Virtual Machines with Resource Manager | Virtual Machine | ||
Secure Resource Partitions | OS Containers | ||
IBM | LPAR | AIX 6.1, AIX 7 | Virtual Partition |
dLPAR | Virtual Partition | ||
SUN | Dynamic System Domains | Solaris 10 | Physical Partition |
Solaris Containers/Zones with Solaris Resource Manager | OS Partition | ||
INTEL/AMD | VMWare ESX Server 1Guest OS: Windows | VMWare ESX Server 3.5,
4.0, and 4.1, ESXi4.1, ESXi5.0, Guest OS: Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7 |
Virtual Machine |
VMWare ESX ServerGuest OS: Linux, Sun Solaris x64 | VMWare ESX Server 3.5,
4.0 and 4.1, ESXi4.1, ESXi5.0, Guest OS: RH 5.5, RH 6.1, SuSE 11, Sun Solaris x64 |
Virtual Machine | |
Xen2, KVM, DomainU: Windows | Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7 | Virtual Machine | |
Xen, KVM, DomainU: Linux | RH 5.5, RH 6.1, SuSE 11 | Virtual Machine | |
Hyper-V | Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7, SuSE 11, RHEL 6.1 | Virtual Machine | |
1VMWare excludes VMWare Workstation and VMWare Server 2 Xen excludes Sun Solaris x64 |
You must have a sub-capacity licensing agreement with SAP Sybase before you can enable sub-capacity licensing. If you choose to use SAP Sybase IQ in a sub-capacity environment, see the SySAM Quick Start Guide for instructions for generating your license key.