Licensing Oracle SE One on VMWare cluster
- From: Marcus Mönnig <mm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ORACLE-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:35:39 +0200
Hi!
I know that Oracle considers VMWare soft-partioning and that if you
would go for processor licenses, you need to license in regards to the
underlying hardware, not what you assigned to a VM.
But additionally, to be allowed to use SE One or SE there is a limit
of 2 (SE One) or 4 (SE) CPU slots in the physical hardware.
So, say you have a VMWare ESX cluster with 4 physical servers and two
slots (and CPUs) only in each physical server, are you allowed to
license SE One?
The total number of slots in the cluster is obviously larger than 2,
but at any time the VM with Oracle running on it can only run on one
dedicated physical server in the cluster. The VM might shift to
another server, e.g. when the current physical server goes down, but
at any given time, it only runs on one server.
Thanks!
Marcus
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