Re: E-Business suite on Oracle VM

  • From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: karlarao@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:09:53 +0100

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
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>



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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
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