Sub-capacity Licensing

You can license a physical machine, machine partition, or a resource partition using sub-capacity licensing.

Sybase now offers sub-capacity licensing options. Sub-capacity licensing refers to licensing a Sybase product on a subset of the CPUs available on a physical machine.

Note: Sub-capacity licensing is unavailable for products that are licensed statically.

Platform Support

SySAM Virtualization Sub-capacity Compatibility
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)

Solaris 11

Virtual partition

Intel, AMD

VMWare ESX Server* Guest OS: Windows

VMWare ESX 3.5, ESX 4.1, and ESXi 5.0

Guest OS: Windows 7, Windows 2008, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 8, and Windows 2012

Virtual machine
 

VMWare ESX Server Guest OS: Linux, Sun x86-64

VMWare ESX 3.5, ESX 4.1, and ESXi 5.0

Guest OS: Red Hat 5.7, 6.1, SUSE 11, and Solaris 10 x64

Virtual machine
 

Xen,** DomainU, KVM: Windows

Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7

Virtual machine
 

Xen, DomainU, KVM: Linux

Red Hat 5.7, 6.1, and SUSE 11

Virtual machine
 

Hyper-V

Windows 2008 R2

Guest OS: Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7, Red Hat 6.1, and SUSE 11

Virtual machine

* VMWare ESX Server excludes VMWare Workstation and VMWare Server.

** Xen excludes Solaris x64.

Enabling Sybase Sub-capacity Licensing

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.

Note: Keep your license server up-to-date.

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.

Parent topic: Licensing