Hi I think you are looking for this document http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/partitioning-070609.pdf Best Regards / Venlig Hilsen Peter Gram Miracle Consulting <http://www.miracleas.dk> Borupvang 2c, 2750 Ballerup, Denmark Cell: (+45) 53747107 Home: (+45) 38745696 Office Phone: (+45) 44668855 Office Fax: (+45) 44668856 Mail: peter.gram@xxxxxxxxxxxx OakTable member <http://www.oaktable.net> <http://www.oaktable.com/> ---------------------------------------------------- On 11 October 2013 12:46, Niels Jespersen <NJN@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hello > > We are running a few Oracle (11.2) databases on VMware. We have of course > licensed all CPUs in the underlying physical machine. > > But where can I find official licensing rules regarding Oracle Database on > VMware and other virtualization environments? > > The Licensing Information manual does not mention virtualized environments > at all. Beyond that I have only found a paper named "Oracle Partitioning > Policy" that more or less explains that you have to license the full host > in case of "soft partitioning" like VMware. > > Nothing about VMware clustering, vMotion, DRS (Dynamic Resource > Scheduling) and so on. > > I could, of course, ask my Oracle representative, but I prefer to read the > official wording (if it exists) in solitude before that. > > Regards Niels Jespersen > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l