Sub-capacity Licensing

Sub-capacity licensing allows you to license a subset of the CPUs available on a physical machine using the SySAM sub-capacity license functionality.

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
Sun	Dynamic System Domains	Solaris 10	Physical partition
	Solaris Containers/Zones with Solaris Resource Manager		Virtual partition
	Sun Logical Domain (LDOM)		Virtual partition
Intel, AMD	VMWare ESX Server Guest O/S: Windows Note: VMWare ESX Server excludes VMWare Workstation, and VMWare Server.	VMWare ESX 3.5, ESX 4.0 and ESX 4.1, ESXi4.1, ESXi 5.0, Guest OS: Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7	Virtual machine
	VMWare ESX Server Guest OS: Linux, Sun Solaris x64	VMWare ESX 3.5, ESX 4.0 and ESX 4.1, ESXi4.1, ESXi 5.0, Guest OS: RH 5.5, SuSE 11, Sun Solaris x64	Virtual machine
	Xen, KVM, DomainU: Windows Note: Xen excludes Sun Solaris x64.	Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7	Virtual machine
	Xen, KVM, DomainU: Linux	RH 5.5, SuSe 11	Virtual machine
	Hyper-V	Windows 2008 R2	Virtual machine

Enabling Sybase Sub-Capacity Licensing

If you purchased your product from Sybase or an authorized reseller, you must have a sub-capacity licensing agreement with SAP or Sybase before you can enable sub-capacity licensing.

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

Although the installation media includes a copy of the most recent SySAM license server, we recommend that you periodically check for updates at http://service.sap.com/patches.

When using SySAM sub-capacity licensing, set the SYBASE_SAM_CAPACITY environment variable before installing, or copy in the license key after installation.