Re: T3 processor/system & Oracle License

  • From: Tim Hall <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Allen, Brandon" <Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 18:30:58 +0100

Brandon: You didn't read the whole document. :) It's mentioned in the
hard-partitioning also.

Use it for soft partitioning, you pay for all CPUs. Use it for
hard-partitioning, you only pay for what you use. :)

Cheers

Tim...

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Allen, Brandon <Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  There were well known performance issues running Windows on OracleVM
> (even documented on MOS) – has that changed?
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> Partitioning with VMWare is *not* recognized as hard partitioning by
> Oracle – it’s specifically listed as an example of “soft partitioning” here:
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> http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/partitioning.pdf
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> Regards,
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> Brandon
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Tim Hall
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> Windows virtualization? Another non-issue. When you are virtualizing
> servers, you will presumably be using bare-metal hypervisors, like Oracle VM
> or VMware ESX. They run on the hardware directly and you run VMs on top of
> them. You can use Oracle VM or ESX to virtualize Windows, like any other x86
> OS.
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