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does veritas license charge by virtual number of cores or the actual number core?

IdaWong
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hi all,

just out of curiosity is veritas license charges based on the virtual or actual number of cores?

thanks in advance

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Marianne
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See https://sort.symantec.com/spvu_calc 

Per core licensing allows you to license only the server processor cores being used. To determine the total core count:

  • For licensing entire CPUs, multiply the Total # of CPU by Total number of Cores in each CPU.
    Example: For 2 Xeon 8 core CPUs, 2 X 8 = 16 cores
  • For licensing partial CPUs (Virtualization) enter the exact number of cores used 

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Marianne
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See https://sort.symantec.com/spvu_calc 

Per core licensing allows you to license only the server processor cores being used. To determine the total core count:

  • For licensing entire CPUs, multiply the Total # of CPU by Total number of Cores in each CPU.
    Example: For 2 Xeon 8 core CPUs, 2 X 8 = 16 cores
  • For licensing partial CPUs (Virtualization) enter the exact number of cores used 

IdaWong
Level 4

Hi Marianne,

Thank you for the feed back. For CPU such as the Sparc T4, the physical cores is 8 but psrinfo shows 64 as each core has 8 virtual core. Could i clarify that veritas is smart enough license by physical only then?

regards,

ida