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 |
|---|---|---|---|
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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 |
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dLPAR |
Virtual partition |
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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 Guest O/ S: Windows, Linux, and Sun Solaris x64 VMWare ESX Server excludes VMWare Workstation and VMWare Server. |
VMWare ESX 3.5, ESX 4.0 and ESX 4.1, Guest OS: Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7, Red Hat 5.6, SuSE 11, Sun Solaris x64 |
Virtual machine |
|
Xen, DomainU: Windows and Linux Xen excludes Sun Solaris x64. |
Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7, Red Hat 5.6, and SuSe 11 |
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.