Sub-Capacity Licensing

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

Platform support

Sub-capacity licensing is supported on the following platforms:

Sub-Capacity Licensing Vendor Support
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	Virtual Partition
IBM	dLPAR	AIX 6.1	Virtual Partition
SUN	Dynamic System Domains	Solaris 10	Physical Partition
SUN	Solaris Containers/Zones with Solaris Resource Manager	Solaris 10	OS Partition
INTEL/AMD	VMWare ESX Server¹Guest OS: Windows	VMWare ESX Server 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1 Guest OS: Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7	Virtual Machine
	VMWare ESX ServerGuest OS: Linux	VMWare ESX Server 3.5, 4.0 and 4.1 Guest OS: RH 5.5, SuSE 11, Sun Solaris x64	Virtual Machine
	Xen², DomainU: Windows	Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7	Virtual Machine
	Xen, DomainU: Linux	RH 5.5, SuSE 11	Virtual Machine
	¹VMWare excludes VMWare Workstation and VMWare Server ² Xen excludes Sun Solaris x64

How to enable Sybase sub-capacity licensing

You must have a sub-capacity licensing agreement with Sybase before you can enable sub-capacity licensing. If you choose to use Sybase IQ in a sub-capacity environment, see the SySAM Quick Start Guide for instructions for generating your license key.

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

Although the installation media includes a copy of the most recent SySAM license server, Sybase recommends that you periodically check for license server updates on the SySAM Standalone License Server Install site.