Last time I looked Karl the EE database for E-Biz is licensed as part of the EBiz license i.e it's an ASFU license. Now there are some, er interesting, restrictions on that in theory, but I wouldn't normally be doing your calculations for an EBiz environment. On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Karl Arao <karlarao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Anyone on the list have implemented E-Business suite but the database is on > Oracle VM ? > Are you already using it for production environment? If yes, have you > encountered any issues (performance,maintenance,support,etc.)? > > To make the long story short, we have this situation on a client.. they > have planned to acquire a 4 CPU (physical) Intel quad core server, so on the > Oracle Licensing that's 8 Processor License (EE).. time passed and the > hardware vendor no longer ships that kind of machine.. and what was shipped > was the 4 CPU (physical) Intel hexacore .. So with this kind of machine, > they need to have 12 Processor License (EE).. hmm... well the client could > opt to > > - buy the remaining 4 Processor License but the cost would boost up.. > - or they could opt to hardware partition the server using Oracle VM by > physically segmenting the server's CPU thus only the allocated CPU will only > be licensed > > Well I got an interesting situation here, wondering if anyone on the list > have also encountered this.. comments, reactions, are welcome.. > > > > -- > Karl Arao > karlarao.wordpress.com > karlarao.tiddlyspot.com > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info