Re: IDS 11.5 licence question: virtual versus physical processors ?

Posted in 2008

Neil Truby — Wed, 1 Oct 2008 18:40:06 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Martin Thole" <mth@o-b-s.de> wrote in message news:48e3667f$0$6617$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net... > 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 My understanding is that there remains no "sub-capacity licensing" for IDS Workgroup. Therefore, even oif your VM may have only a subset of the total processors allocated to it, you will have to pay for 400 PVUs of IDS, this being the PVU requirement for the overall 2 x quad-core Intel procs. I'm almost certain that Light Scans is wrong when he says "But the good news is that I am pretty sure you can just pay for the Virtual CPU's". Unless things have changed *very* recently.