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6.2.5.1 Optional Feature Licenses

Some SAP ASE applications are offered as base products with optional features that require a separate license.

Customers can mix license types. For example, customers can order SAP ASE under the Server License (SR)

license type and order an optional feature (for example, High Availability or Enhanced Full Text Search) under the

CPU License (CP) type.

Optional features are licensed only with the base product of the same product edition. For example, if you order

SAP ASE, you cannot use a Small Business Edition optional feature license with the Enterprise Edition base

product. In addition, the entitled use of the license types must be compatible; for example, both types should

allow use in a production environment.

6.2.5.2 SySAM Licensing Checkout

If SAP ASE is licensed using a per-processor license type, it checks out a license quantity equal to the number of

processors, or, if insufficiet licenses are available, allows a 30-day grace period.

If the number of processors is dynamically increased while running and the software cannot check out additional

licenses, the software permits a 30-day grace period. If sufficient licenses are not made available within the grace

period, the software shuts down. Decreasing the number of processors that the software can use while it is

running does not reduce the required license quantity. You must restart the SAP ASE server on the correct

number of processors.

See the SySAM Users Guide.

6.2.5.3 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

Table 5: 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

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