Re: PowerVM Live Partition Mobility
- From: Freek D'Hooge <freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: contact@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:20:46 +0100
Stephan,
Do you have a link to the oracle document in which this license change
is stated?
Kind regards,
Freek D'Hooge
On wo, 2014-11-12 at 17:48 +0100, Stefan Koehler wrote:
> Hi Cheng,
> unfortunately (or should i say luckily) i don't do Oracle license consulting
> for my clients, so i don't know how they worked out a solution for that
> introduced paragraph in 2013 (some of them are using that feature since end
> 2011 as far as i can remember). However they are still using IBM Power VM
> Live Partition Mobility, so they found a solution for that or are paying more
> right now.
>
> You recently got that same issue with VMware as well, even it is not
> documented like the "IBM Power VM Live Partition Mobility" paragraph. Oracle
> has
> changed the license policy for Oracle products in a VMware infrastructure
> with version 5.1 or higher. Now you need to license the whole vCenter and
> not only the vCluster. This usually makes a huge licensing impact on the
> clients as only one vCenter is used for all vClusters.
>
> Unfortunately the license article is in german only, but maybe interesting
> for the guys who are using Oracle in a VMware infrastructure:
> http://www.doag.org/home/aktuelle-news/article/oracle-aendert-lizenzierung-von-oracle-produkten-unter-vmware-vsphere-ab-version-51.html
>
> Best Regards
> Stefan Koehler
>
> Oracle performance consultant and researcher
> Homepage: http://www.soocs.de
> Twitter: @OracleSK
>
>
> > Ls Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx> hat am 12. November 2014 um 15:14 geschrieben:
> >
> > Hi Mark
> >
> > The mobility feature in PowerVM allows you move online a LPAR from a
> > physical server to another, in my ignorance I think it's like vMotion in
> > VMWare. Itself does not create or destroys VMs.
> >
> > LPAR is a supported Hard Partitioning software, so the statement about
> > Live Partition Mobility is sort of ambiguos, it's a feature which allows you
> > to move a supported hard partitioning VM, i.e Live Partition Mobility is
> > not a hard partitioning software, it just moves the VM. LPAR is a Power VM
> > feature.
> >
> > I am questioning is because if one have been using Live Partition Mobility
> > since 2009 and suddently in 2013 you are asked to stop using it becase
> > Oracle changes his licensing policy it's a intrusive move no? And it's not
> > even a patitioning feature.
> >
> >
> > Thanks
>
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