HP-UX Virtual Partitions Ordering and Configuration Guide (v09.06.16)

3 Purchasing and Licensing
This section lists licensing and product details for currently supported vPars releases.
For information on future plans for vPars products, see the appropriate marketing materials.
3.1 vPars Licensing
Virtual partitioning products are sold on a Per Core Licensing basis. Therefore, you purchase
the same quantity of this product as the number of active processing cores in your nPartitions
or non-nPartitioned system that will be running vPars. If you later purchase additional processing
cores, you must also purchase the corresponding number of per-processor licenses of T1335AC,
T1335BC, or T1335CC.
The product number for vPars bundle T1335CC is now changed to T1335DC.
NOTE: Dual-core processors (for example, the PA-8800 processor) have two cores per processor
and are seen by HP-UX and associated applications as two processing cores; hence, two vPars
software licenses are required for each dual-core processor. In other words, each core requires
its own vPars license.
3.2 Related Software Licensing
Systems running vPars have two options for purchasing software licenses: Per nPartition Licensing
or Virtualization Licensing.
• Per nPartition Licensing allows licensing of HP-UX 11i software based upon the number of
active processing cores in the server or nPartition.
• Virtualization Licensing allows customers to purchase software licenses for less than the
full processor core capacity of a server or nPartition when the software will be run in virtual
partitions (vPars).
For more details on software licensing for vPars refer to the Virtualization Licensing for HP-UX
11i website at:
http://www.hp.com/go/virtualizationlicensing/
3.3 Product Numbers
Be sure you order the correct product number based on your needs. The table below is general
information regarding the virtual partition software products. There may be further hardware,
operating system, or application constraints. Check the applicable hardware, OE, and application
documentation for any further constraints.
Table 3-1 vPars Product Support for HP-UX and Servers
HP Server Platforms
Supported
HP-UX Releases
Supported
HP-UX 11i Version
SupportedvPars VersionProduct Number
PA-RISC and
Integrity
March 2009 or laterHP-UX 11i v3 (11.31)vPars A.05.05 and
later
T1335DC
PA-RISC and
Integrity
February 2007 or latervPars A.05.xx and
later
T1335CC
PA-RISC and
Integrity
May 2005 or laterHP-UX 11i v2 (11.23)vPars A.04.xx and
later
T1335BC
PA-RISCDecember 2000 or
later
HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11)vPars A.03.xx and
earlier
T1335AC
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