Chip licenses and virtualisation plattform

[Former Member]

I'm having a question according to chip licence (CH) of Sybase Anywhere. It's running

Hostserver: Windows Server 2012 Standard

Virtueller Client: Windows Server 2008R2 Enterprise

and on top of this a Anywhere 16 with the CH licence.

Checking via coreinfo the clients shows this:

[...]
Logical to Physical Processor Map:
*---------------  Physical Processor 0
-*--------------  Physical Processor 1
--*-------------  Physical Processor 2
---*------------  Physical Processor 3
----*-----------  Physical Processor 4
-----*----------  Physical Processor 5
------*---------  Physical Processor 6
-------*--------  Physical Processor 7
--------*-------  Physical Processor 8
---------*------  Physical Processor 9
----------*-----  Physical Processor 10
-----------*----  Physical Processor 11
------------*---  Physical Processor 12
-------------*--  Physical Processor 13
--------------*-  Physical Processor 14
---------------*  Physical Processor 15

Logical Processor to Socket Map:
****************  Socket 0

Logical Processor to NUMA Node Map:
****************  NUMA Node 0

[...]

But when starting ASA it only uses one core on that box -- but my understanding would by it is using all of them.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Frank,

               I had a similar problem with workgroup edition per-seat license. I used vmware and if assigning cpu you don't specify how many socket and how many core per socket, then the SA treats each cpu as a phisical cpu.

I don't know if Microsoft virtualization it's able to distinguish between sockets and core.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

For ESX you have to configure it via text option, at least on ESX4 -> http://yaturl.net/96fb

As on my Hyper-V setup this seems to be done correctly -- at least If I understand the output of coreinfo correct -- 16 cores at one socket which should fit the chip thing.