On 15/10/2013 5:58 PM, D'Hooge Freek wrote: > * you need to license all physical machines in the vcenter cluster (DRS > rules are not a valid way to limit the number of physical servers to be > licensed, regardless vmware states about this) > The reasoning for the second is that, according to the processor > definition, you install the Oracle software on all physical servers in > the same vcenter cluster (yes, that is what they told me) > > Not sure if this last reasoning will uphold in court, but unless you are > prepared to go to court over this, you better follow it. > We did. And it turned out either Oracle considered licensing all cores in a host in our cluster - the exact words in their documents - or else they'd be in legal trouble as well as minus quite a lot of moolah in maintenance and licensing fees. So now, our middleware is nicely licensed to run in a single host in a BIG vmware cluster and we only paid the core licenses of that host. Which is perfectly legit, IMHO. Of course: YMMV, no animals hurt in testing this product, etcetc... -- Cheers Nuno Souto dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l