Apologies for the late dip into this conversation. I'll start out with I
work for Microsoft, but I also have 20 projects migrating Oracle either
with BYOL or migrating to Azure DB. The licensing has been changing to
make it more appealing to move to any cloud by Oracle and what Norm
describes is how it was before Oracle changed their stance in the last
year. The licensing documentation is one for one on vcores, no matter if
you are on Oracle's cloud or on AWS or Azure. I can spin up a VM on Azure
and build out an Oracle environment very quickly that matches what
customers already have, including Data Guard, Goldengate, etc. If the
customer wants RAC, the conversation then goes back to why they have RAC.
In ever instance, I discovered they had misinterpreted it for HA vs.
scalability and I'm able to architect something that makes more sense, but
yes, I can build out VMs, put Flexgrid on it and install RAC on top of
that.
Azure does handle multi-threaded more efficiently than AWS does, (in my
opinion) as their technology is built around multi-threaded processing.
Let me know if you have any questions- I'm tech, not licensing, but the
specific topic of Oracle licensing on Azure is something I am involved in
quite often.
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 8:35 AM Norman Dunbar <oracle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 11/04/2019 13:18, Hameed, Amir wrote:
We have had a few discussions with Oracle regarding its licensing policy
on Azure. Oracle’s position was that one Oracle license was equivalent
to one vCPU, irrespective of whether a vCPU is a full core or a thread
of a multi-threaded core.
The above is true if you are not running Oracle Linux on Azure. If you
are, the core factors come back into play again.
I did an Azure migration to Windows recently (ok, about two years ago!)
and it started with pay for the licence as you use it, then it was bring
your own licence, then they messed with the core factors. Nothing like
screwing your customers! :(
That huge cost saving by moving to the cloud? Consider it well ....
Cheers,
Norm.
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