RE: Oracle VM server licensing

  • From: Kjetil Strønen <kjetil@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l-freelists <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:33:18 +0200

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

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