The sub-capacity licensing allows you to license a subset of the CPUs available on a physical machine using the SySAM sub-capacity license functionality.
| Vendor | Product | Platform Support | Virtualization Type |
|---|---|---|---|
|
HP |
nPar |
HP IA 11.31 |
Physical partition |
|
vPar |
Virtual partition |
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|
Integrity Virtual Machines with Resource Manager |
Virtual machine |
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|
Secure Resource Partitions |
OS containers |
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|
IBM |
LPAR |
AIX 6.1, AIX 7 |
Virtual partition |
|
dLPAR |
Virtual partition |
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|
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.
If you purchased your product from Sybase or an authorized Sybase reseller, you must have a sub-capacity licensing agreement with SAP or Sybase before you can enable sub-capacity licensing. For specific steps, see the SySAM Quick Start Guide.