Re: Don't Virtualize Oracle

  • From: Seth Miller <sethmiller.sm@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 15:05:36 -0500

Great article Dennis! Thanks for posting.

*Running Oracle on a dedicated group of servers within a vSphere cluster,
sometimes referred to as a subcluster, is a different matter, however.
"Oracle likes to tell prospects and customers that if they are running
Oracle on any physical server within a large vSphere cluster they have to
license the entire cluster for Oracle. Nothing could be further from the
truth," Welch says. *

*"The contract states that you must license any physical server on which
you have installed or are running Oracle binaries. But you don't have to
license other servers in that cluster," he insists. "Amazingly, many
organizations don't know that."*


On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Dennis Williams <
oracledba.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This article starts with the licensing pitfalls of virtualizing Oracle
> databases, but goes further and touches on many Oracle licensing issues.
>
>
> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9248130/Virtualizing_Oracle_software_Don_t_pay_for_what_you_don_t_need?source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2014-05-07
>
> Dennis Williams
>

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