CPUCOUNT cannot be used to fit a larger machine into a subcapacity licence
Catalog row in Vendor License Rules · Cited
- Kind
- Virtualization
- Statement
- A subcapacity licence limits the cores on the machine; the CPUCOUNT system option does not reduce the count, so the machine or VM itself must be sized to the licence.
- Applies when
- Running SAS on a machine with more cores than licensed.
- Applies to
- Subcapacity (core- and machine-name-based) SAS 9.2 and later licences on Windows.
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