Hans, But with the current price setting, the reduction in cpu resources would need to be more then 33% (list price EE $47.500 and multitenant $17.500) .... Which seems very high to me... As a standard edition license cost for a cpu socket the same amount as for 1 PDB option (which licenses 2 intel cores), I think it would often make more sense to put less important databases on separate standard edition licensed servers instead of using PDB's. If I look at my customers, I don't see any benefit for them (at least not with the current price tag). Hence my question if there are people out there who have a real business case that justify the multitenant cost. Kind regards, Freek On do, 2014-09-11 at 10:58 -0600, Hans Forbrich wrote: > I don't think the win is necessarily in the memory. > > However, with 10 instances on the machine, each with it's own DB > Console, it's own LGWR, DBWR, SMON, PMON, ..., I suspect that > reclaiming those CPU cycles and therefore being able to put the same > load on a smaller machine, or consolidate more instances on the same > machine, hopefully we will be able to reduce the overall CPU licenses > (to be replaced by multi-tenant licenses). > > Basically, in my mind it amounts to the difference between getting 24 > cores for individual instances, or 16 cores for multi-tenant instances. > If I've just managed to save 1/3 of the CPUs and therefore reduced the > licenses, and the energy footprint, by 1/3, I may have won. I say "may" > because of the possible mixed-load and admin considerations that are > discussed in other areas of this (and other) thread. As always YMMV, so > Benchmark. > > This, by the way, is the exact same reasoning for using Cloud Control > instead of a DB Control for each instance. Cloud Control is moved to a > different machine and monitors many instances, and you therefore recoup > the CPU cycles used to run the console from the DB box, where you pay by > the CPU core. Setting aside Cloud Control HA configuration, which is an > extra cost, the Cloud COntrol base configuration is included in your DB > license. Back a number of year and versions, the DB Control's App > Server used *significant* CPU and memory and in fact became one of the > undetected performance bottlenecks on some server configurations because > it's own overhead was outside the scope of what was measured. > > And yes, the numbers are different when considering SE. > > /Hans > > On 11/09/2014 10:23 AM, Freek D'Hooge wrote: > > > > This has me wondering since the moment I saw the cost for this option. > > Has anyone a real business case in which the reduction in in memory > > footprint and such has lowered the cost in such amount that it > > outweighs the additional cost of the option? > > Aside from sharing resources, what are the things that would make > > managing PDB's so much more efficient that it justifies the price > > Oracle charges you? > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > >