Sybase offers sub-capacity licensing, which lets you license Sybase products on a subset of the CPUs available on a physical machine.
| 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 | ||
| Oracle | Dynamic System Domains | Solaris 10 | Physical partition |
| Solaris Containers/Zones with Solaris Resource Manager | OS partition | ||
| Solaris Logical Domain (LDOM) | Virtual partition | ||
| Intel, AMD | VMWare ESX Server Guest O/ S:
Windows Note: VMWare ESX Server excludes VMWare Workstation and VMWare
Server.
|
VMWare ESX 3.5, ESX 4.0, ESX 4.1, and ESXi 5.0 Guest OS: Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows 2012, and Windows 8 |
Virtual machine |
| VMWare ESX Server Guest O/ S: Linux and Solaris x64 |
VMWare ESX 3.5, ESX 4.0, ESX 4.1, and ESXi 5.0 Guest OS: Red Hat 5.6, Red Hat 6.1, SuSE 11, and Solaris x64 |
Virtual machine | |
| Xen, KVM, DomainU: Windows Note: Xen excludes Solaris x64.
|
Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 |
Virtual machine | |
| Xen, KVM, DomainU: Linux | Red Hat 5.6, Red Hat 6.1, and SuSE 11 | Virtual Machine | |
| Hyper-V | Windows 2008
R2 Guest OS: Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows 2012, and Windows 8 |
Virtual Machine |
You must have a sub-capacity licensing agreement with Sybase before you can enable sub-capacity licensing. As with other Sybase licenses, you must generate a license key. For specific steps, see the SySAM Quick Start Guide.
Although the installation media include a copy of the most recent SySAM license server, Sybase recommends that you periodically check for license server updates on the SySAM Standalone License Servers Web site at http://www.sybase.com/sysam/server.