HP-UX Virtual Partitions Ordering and Configuration Guide (March 2012)

3 Purchasing and Licensing
This section describes the licensing and the vPars releases that are currently supported.
3.1 vPars Licensing
The HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars) product is 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 T1335DC. To purchase the vPars product, contact your local HP
representative or reseller.
IMPORTANT: Starting March 2010 release (vPars A.05.06), HP-UX Virtual Partitions will not be
delivered as part of the bundle T1335CC. The product number for vPars bundle T1335CC is now
changed to T1335DC. Henceforth, both the Virtual Server Environment Operating Environment
(VSE OE) media and the Application Release (AR) media will contain the vParsT1335DC bundle.
The T1335DC bundle was originally introduced in the HP-UX March 2009 release.
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 requirement. 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.
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