On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 06:33 -0600, Sweetser, Joe wrote: > This might help: > http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/partitioning.pdf > > Basically, if you are “soft partitioning” a server, you need to > license every CPU in the server. A nagging issue for many who want to > run Oracle in, say, a VMWare environment. Although not so with VMWare, Oracle does recognize pinning virtual servers to physical cores as "hard partitioning" for licensing purposes with Oracle VM, as http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/virtualization/pdf/ovm-hardpart.pdf details (which is linked to in the partitioning.pdf). --Kjetil -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l