It does not matter what the sales reps are telling you, it does not matter what
various "policy" explanations say even if they are written by Oracle, it only
matters what your contracts say. Therefore the question is: what do your
contracts say? They likely say "processors where the software is installed
and/or running."
Questions:
* If there is SAN to SAN replication but no processors have mounted the
binaries, how many additional processors does the contract require you to
license?
* How do you test your DR setup without additional licenses?
* When you fail over or switch over, is the software "installed and
or/running" in two places simultaneously, even for a microsecond?
When answering the above questions, remember you must argue from the contracts
only without reliance on any policy explanations since all policy explanations
are explicitly non-contractual. A good article to read is
http://houseofbrick.com/licensing-oracle-software-in-cloud-environments-an-article-for-the-nocoug/
even though it is ostensibly about licensing Oracle in the cloud.
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Sent: Monday, November 12, 2018 1:00 PM
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Subject: Oracle licensing with disk replication
We started work on a 2nd data center 2 years ago, and the equipment to make it
functional is starting to come together.
One of the things that is happening is using Hitachi storage and replicating
everything in the primary data center
to the secondary.
So we end up with a bunch of storage frames at the 2nd location containing
exact copies of the disk at our primary location.
The folks who manage our contracts are telling us that Oracle corp. is being a
pain,
and demanding compensation for these replicated copies of their software, which
basically sit idle.
Personally, I can see how Oracle would want a piece of this, because we do
derive benefit from it.
The contract folks are suggesting that ONLY Oracle corp. is behaving this way.
None of our other vendors.
Does this jive with other people’s experience?
Thanks for your input.
