SAP Data Services 3.2 Licensing

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I always wanted to know how the SAP does the licensing for the Data Services. I heard that the licensing is based on the number of CPUs that for the first CPU its 1 License and the next CPUs its multiples of 0.5.

So is it like you have 4 environments Prod, QA, SIT and Dev.

Each having 8 CPUs with the total number of CPUs as 4 * 8 = 32 Licenses

1. So is the license 1 CPU + 31 CPUs * 0.5 = 1 + 15.5 = 17 Licenses
   (OR)

2. Prod:- 1 CPU + 7 * 0.5 = 1 + 3.5 = 5 Licenses
   QA :- 1 CPU + 7 * 0.5 = 1 + 3.5 = 5 Licenses
   SIT :- 1 CPU + 7 * 0.5 = 1 + 3.5 = 5 Licenses
   Dev:- 1 CPU + 7 * 0.5 = 1 + 3.5 = 5 Licenses

   So a total of 20 Licenses in this case.

Which one is correct?

Also if its the 2. option is correct, then is it possible that we just buy the 5 licenses for Prod and then use the same license for the rest of the environments. I know it sounds unethical, but how does SAP deal with that, if the second option is right?

Thanks in Advance.

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BODS_User (BOB member since 2011-05-24)

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This should help you

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Our Client bought a DS license for 16 processors, but the Technology Area bougth a server with 32 cores (technically, 4 8-Cores). In order to keep in track with the current contract I need to know if is there a way to limit the Cores usage of DS in that server, so it cannot exceed the 16 CPUs licensed. Nowadays we are using DI 11.7 but we’ll be changing it to DS 3.2 in the near future. Has anyone faced this situation? Regards, Andrés aidelia (BOB member since 2006-02-02)

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ganeshxp (BOB member since 2008-07-17)

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Prod and Dev are priced differently as well. So you don’t have to spent the full amount of money just to be able to QA the job before moving it to prod.

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Werner Daehn (BOB member since 2004-12-17)