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.
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 |
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Integrity Virtual Machines with Resource Manager |
Virtual Machine |
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Secure Resource Partitions |
OS Containers |
||
IBM |
LPAR |
AIX 6.1 |
Virtual Partition |
dLPAR |
Virtual Partition |
||
SUN |
Dynamic System Domains |
Solaris 10 |
Physical Partition |
Solaris Containers/Zones with Solaris Resource Manager |
OS Partition |
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INTEL/AMD |
VMWare ESX Server 1Guest OS: Windows |
VMWare ESX Server 3.5 Guest OS: Windows 2003 |
Virtual Machine |
VMWare ESX ServerGuest OS: Linux |
VMWare ESX Server 3.5 Guest OS: RH 5.3, SuSE 10 |
Virtual Machine |
|
Xen2, DomainU: Windows |
Windows 2003 |
Virtual Machine |
|
Xen, DomainU: Linux |
RH 5.3, SuSE 10 |
Virtual Machine |
|
1 VMWare excludes VMWare Workstation and VMWare Server 2 Xen excludes Sun Solaris x64 |
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.
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.