RE: VMWARE's virtualization and processor licensing
- From: "Walker, Jed S" <Jed_Walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "William.Blanchard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <William.Blanchard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:06:48 +0000
Another important note on using VMWare (we do) is that Oracle does not fully
support it. If you have an issue and are running on VMWare you will need to
prove that you can reproduce the issue running on physical dedicated hardware
to get full support. Due to our use of VMWare in development and test, we are
putting a few physical servers in so we can move onto them when we do have
issues that require support.
-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Tim Hall
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 6:32 PM
To: William.Blanchard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: jpiwowar@xxxxxxxxx; JBECKSTROM@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l-freelists; oracle-db-l
Subject: Re: VMWARE's virtualization and processor licensing
Hi.
Just a little clarification. Oracle VM performs soft partitioning by
default, so if you use the default action you must license all
CPUs/cores on the server for Oracle products.
Unlike VMware, Oracle VM will allow you to hard partition, allowing
you to license a subset of the CPUs/cores. See:
http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Hard+partitioning
The moral of this story is, make sure you are using Oracle VM
properly, or uncle Larry may come knocking at your door with an
unexpected bill. :)
Cheers
Tim...
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Blanchard, William G
<William.Blanchard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The difference is hardware vs software. Just like with domains, if it's
> a hard partition you only have to license the cpus on the hard
> partition. Oracle VM lies between the hardware and software and is
> built on Xen. VMWare is software and even if you specify that you only
> want it to use 4 cpus, it really has access to all 8. Xen on the other
> hand segregates the cpus just like a hard partition. It'll be
> interesting to see if they allow Oracle to be run on VirtualBox.
>
> My $0.02.
>
>
> WGB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Piwowar
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 7:15 AM
> To: JBECKSTROM@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: oracle-l-freelists; oracle-db-l
> Subject: Re: VMWARE's virtualization and processor licensing
>
> The short (and unfortunate) answer is that you have to license Oracle
> for each processor in your VM server. You don't have the ability to
> declare, for example, that that you're only going to use 4 of the 8
> cores in your Vmware server for database VMs, and only pay for Oracle
> RDBMS licenses on those 4 cores. Oddly enough, you *can* do this if
> you're running Oracle VM...hmm...:-)
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> John P.
>
> Sent from a mobile device to deliver a more rapid response. Please
> excuse brevity and typos.
>
>
> On 2010-10-26, at 7:55 AM, "Jeffrey Beckstrom" <JBECKSTROM@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> I am seeking information on VMWAREs virtualization software and how it
> impacts processor licensing for Oracle. Any information would be
> appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Jeffrey Beckstrom
>> Database Administrator
>> Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
>> 1240 W. 6th Street
>> Cleveland, Ohio 44113
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