Core licensing

Medium to large and Internet-facing ERP.net instances are licensed based on "cores".

A "Core" defines server processing capacity.

User perspective

From users perspective, a core provides enough capacity for comfortable work of 30 concurrent internal users, or up to 45 concurrent light-use users.

However, todays workloads are rarely just internal users, using the default UI clients. Service apps, Internet users and third-party UI apps take their toll. Their load levels are hard to predict.

Note

Small business subscriptions are based on concurrent internal users only, and not on cores. They can incorporate service and Internet apps, but their load is prorated to internal users.

Hardware capacity description

Although "core" licensing is originally based on hardware specifications, nowadays it is sized through software and the exact hardware specs are just an approximation. The core licensing is defined based on the users perspective and hardware capacity is just an approximation.

Having said that, each core is allocated capacity, approximately equal to:

• 1 CPU core of a specialized frequency-optimized CPU for database processing (per licensed core)
• 32 GB RAM for database processing (per licensed core)
• 1 CPU core of a general purpose server CPU for application processing (per licensed core)
• 8 GB RAM for application processing (per licensed core)