Hi Thomas,
only note - on bare-metal servers output form “cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep
processor|wc –l” usually show the number of threads (if multithreading is
on) then number of cores is half of it. Try command "lscpu".
Number of cores you can also see in oracle alert.log during instance
startup (since 11.2.0.4), e.g.
Initial number of CPU is 16
Number of processor cores in the system is 8
Number of processor sockets in the system is 2
Marian
From: Biju Thomas <biju.thomas@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 03. 11. 2017 20:38
Subject: Another licensing Q
Sent by: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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 ;
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
