IDS 11.5 licence question: virtual versus physical processors ?

Posted in 2008

Martin Thole — Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:00:54 +0200 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

We are planning to migrate our database server to a VMware server. The new machine will be a HP BladeServer with 2 Quadcore-processors (=8 cores), but the (virtual) Linux-OS will only use 2 (virtual) cpu cores. How many processor licences are necessary ? Which database editons (Enterprise, Workgroup, Express) are available for virtual machines ? Thanks Martin Thole Aachen, Germany

↪ replying to Martin Thole

LIGHT SCANS — Wed, 1 Oct 2008 07:53:45 -0700 (PDT) — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Hello Martin, If I remember correctly, 1. IDS Express - Continuous logging - Minimum 5 total users / server - Maximum 2 CPU's and 4 Gb RAM - Linux and Windows only. 2. IDS Workgroup Edition - Parallel stuff, HDR, and hyperloader cost extra - Minimum 5 concurrent (or 5 total) users / server - Maximum 4 CPU's and 8 Gb RAM - Unix, Linux and Windows only. 3. IDS Enterprise - Enterprise Replication - Minimum 10 concurrent (or 25 total) users / 100 value units - Maximum CPU and RAM are unlimited - Unix, Linux and Windows only. Since you have the equivalent of 8 CPU's it looks like you are stuck with choice number 3. But the good news is that I am pretty sure you can just pay for the Virtual CPU's. -L.S.