Common use of Soft Partitioning Clause in Contracts

Soft Partitioning. Soft partitioning is established by using the computer systems operating system resource manager to segment and limit the number of Cores/CPUs where the Licensed Software is running by creating areas where processor resources are allocated and limited within the same operating system. Examples of such soft partitioning include: Solaris 9 Resource Containers, AIX Workload Manager, HP Process Resource Manager, Affinity Management, Oracle VM, and VMware. For computer systems where soft partitioning has been employed to create the Host Server being utilized to operate the Licensed Software, such Host Server shall be licensed pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in this Section 1 as if such Host Server where a separate and distinct computer system but the Cores/CPU required to be licensed shall be an “expected” Cores/CPU number calculated as the ratio of the number of Cores/CPUs soft partitioned as a percentage of the entire computer system’ Cores/CPUs, increased by ten percent (10%). For example, on an 8 Core/CPU computer system where soft partitioning has been utilized such that only 4 Cores/CPUs are allocated to use the Licensed Software, a Server License fee charge equal to 60% of the total computer system Cores/CPUs would be required (50%+10% = 60% of an 8 Core/CPU system license fee).

Soft Partitioning. Soft partitioning is established by using the computer systems operating system resource manager to segment and limit the number of Cores/CPUs where the Licensed Software is running by creating areas where processor resources are allocated and limited within the same operating system. Examples of such soft partitioning include: Solaris 9 Resource Containers, AIX Workload Manager, HP Process P rocess Resource Manager, Affinity Management, Oracle VM, and VMware. For computer systems where soft partitioning has been employed to create the Host Server being utilized to operate the Licensed Software, such Host Server shall be licensed pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in this Section 1 as if such Host Server where a separate and distinct computer system but the Cores/CPU required to be licensed licens ed shall be an “expected” Cores/CPU number calculated as the ratio of the number of Cores/CPUs soft partitioned as a percentage of the entire computer system’ system‟ Cores/CPUs, increased by ten percent (10%). For example, on an 8 Core/CPU computer system where soft partitioning has ha s been utilized such that only 4 Cores/CPUs are allocated to use the Licensed Software, a Server License fee charge ch arge equal to 60% of the total computer system Cores/CPUs would be required (50%+10% = 60% of an 8 Core/CPU system license fee).

Soft Partitioning. Soft partitioning is established by using the computer systems operating system resource manager to segment and limit the number of Cores/CPUs where the Licensed Software is running by creating areas where processor resources are allocated and limited within the same operating system. Examples of such soft partitioning include: Solaris 9 Resource Containers, AIX Workload Manager, HP Process Resource Manager, Affinity Management, Oracle VM, and VMware. For computer systems where soft partitioning has been employed to create the Host Server being utilized to operate the Licensed Software, such Host Server shall be licensed pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in this Section 1 as if such Host Server where a separate and distinct computer system but the Cores/CPU required to be licensed shall be an “expected” Cores/CPU number calculated as the ratio of the number of Cores/CPUs soft partitioned as a percentage of the entire computer system’ system‟ Cores/CPUs, increased by ten percent (10%). For example, on an 8 Core/CPU computer system where soft partitioning has been utilized such that only 4 Cores/CPUs are allocated to use the Licensed Software, a Server License fee charge equal to 60% of the total computer system Cores/CPUs would be required (50%+10% = 60% of an 8 Core/CPU system license fee).