Quad processor and 2 cpu license

general discussion
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we have 2 cpu license from BO but our Bo server is running on Quad processor with 1 physical cpu currently

is this fine wrt licensing please let me know

or shoudl i buy more licenses

amruta (BOB member since 2007-04-24)

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This post could help you.

By the way you should ask your BO sales rep.

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thanks thats means i ened 2.5 cpu license and i am haviong 2 cpu license

what do i do now ?

amruta (BOB member since 2007-04-24)

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As said in my answer plus in the other post you should double check with BO …

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This is not the best resource for legal / licensing questions. We can only speculate as to what your contract says.

Dave Rathbun :us: (BOB member since 2002-06-06)

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Having just gone though this with SAP/BO I can confirm that you would need 2.5 (probably 3 as I never was given the option of buying .5 of a licence) CPU licences for that box.

Options you have are to stump up £75k + support for an additional cpu licence.

Convert your 2 cpu to approx 150 named users (which aren’t cpu dependant)

Virtualise the box using one of SAP/BO’s ‘processor affinity’ approved vendors (we use VMWares ESX server) and limit it to 2 CPU’s worth of processing power.

Cheers.

bourner (BOB member since 2005-01-17)

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yes but thsi server has physically only one CPU but Quad processor anyways .

i hope thsi wont be an issue ?

if BO ppl cpome anc check this would it be an issue?

amruta (BOB member since 2007-04-24)

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Yes for sure since you are not compliant!

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thanks for the update really helpful i shall report this to Bo and ask for the extra license and get it sorted out .

out it manager doesnt know the licensing i need to convince him about this first thanks

amruta (BOB member since 2007-04-24)

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If you have less than 150 users (and plan to keep it that way) convert them to named users, unless BO are doing a deal on concurrent users. It gets rid of the daft way that BO charge per cpu.

bourner (BOB member since 2005-01-17)