This might help: http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/partitioning.pdf Basically, if you are "soft partitioning" a server, you need to license every CPU in the server. A nagging issue for many who want to run Oracle in, say, a VMWare environment. hth, -joe From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Beckstrom Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 6:24 AM To: oracle-l-freelists; oracle-db-l Subject: Oracle VM server licensing We are contemplating migrating some of our servers to VM. How does Oracle handle licensing per processor in a VM environment. Any Oracle docs you can refer me to? Jeffrey Beckstrom Database Administrator Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority 1240 W. 6th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113