RE: Licensing Oracle SE One on VMWare cluster
- From: D'Hooge Freek <Freek.DHooge@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "mm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <mm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, ORACLE-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:58:51 +0200
Marcus,
As you have said yourself, Oracle states that VMWare is soft partitioning and
that you should look at the physical machine.
Now, if each of your Vsphere servers has 2 sockets, SE One is possible.
When you have a 4 node Vsphere cluster and only 1 VMWare guest with Oracle on
it, you only need to license 1 physical Vsphere server (in your case 2 SE One
licences).
When you have 2 VMWare guests with Oracle, you need to license 2 physical
Vsphere servers (4 SE One licences).
When you have 5 VMWare guests with Oracle, you need to license 4 (all of your
nodes) Vsphere servers (8 SE One licenses).
The licensing for VMWare is in fact the same as for OVM, with the exception
that with OVM you can do hard partitioning by pinning a virtual guest to 1 or
more cpu cores.
But this will limit your possiblities for HA and load balancing.
Both Vsphere and OVM has also the possibility to create sub clusters, with OVM
you can limit the max number of nodes to be licensed, but I'm not sure if this
is accepted with Vsphere.
And I also have the right to be wrong. :-)
Kind regards,
Freek D'Hooge
Uptime
Oracle Database Administrator
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-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Marcus Mönnig
Sent: woensdag 19 oktober 2011 21:44
To: ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: Licensing Oracle SE One on VMWare cluster
Hi William,
> I am confused. Why can't you just buy 6 processor licenses of Standard
> Edition One Oracle and have at it with as many instances as you want on the 3
> physical machines with 2
> sockets on each server?
Cost. :-)
Actually we would like to go for Named User Plus licenses, not CPU
licenses. That would be cheaper already now and we might want to push
in more physical servers into the cluster later and we wouldn't need
additional (CPU) licenses with the existing NUP licenses.
From the Software Investment Guide:
"Oracle Standard Edition One may only be licensed on servers that have
a maximum capacity of 2 sockets. If licensing by Named User Plus, the
minimum is 5 Named User Plus licenses."
Rephrasing my question: Are we allowed to use SE One on a VMWare ESX
cluster with 4 physical machines and 2 sockets each?
Cheers,
Marcus
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