I believe that licensing uses the physical cores that the database can run on.
Back in the days when HP introduced the CPU on demand (machine had unusable
processors that required shutting down and entering a key to enable), those
processors did not count towards licensing.
Since the cores are disabled in the bios and a reboot is required to enable
them, I suspect the same licensing guidelines apply and you only pay for the
active cores.
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Michael Brown
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On Nov 3, 2017, at 3:37 PM, Biju Thomas <biju.thomas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Question related to Oracle CPU licensing on Cisco UCS. My current blade has
32 cores (the result of “cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep processor|wc –l”). The
sysadmin disabled all but four cores on each socket via the UCS BIOS and got
the output of 8 when I ran the same command the second time. The OS only sees
8. The question is does Oracle allow me to license only 8 visible cores, or
do I have to still license all 32 present on the blade?
I believe such licensing is possible on ODA (Oracle Database Appliance).
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E22693_01/doc.12/e25375/chapter1.htm ;
<https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E22693_01/doc.12/e25375/chapter1.htm>
With bare-metal, you disable cores that will not be used by the Oracle
Database by adding your hardware Support Identifier (SI) for Oracle Database
Appliance to your My Oracle Support account and creating a key.
Thanks much!
Biju Thomas
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Best,
Biju Thomas
www.bijoos.com <http://www.bijoos.com/>
