Hi Kenny,
I'm intrigued with your statement, "In the past I've been able to disable
cores in the BIOS and maintained performance."
Is this recognized by Oracle licensing? I've always been of the
understanding that Oracle considers this in the same category as "soft"
partitioning and disabling of cores is not recognized by Oracle.
I'm asking as perhaps I've misunderstood this all along and disabling cores
in the BIOS could be an option for future assessments of systems.
Thanks!
Alfredo
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Rich J <rjoralist3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 2016/01/22 08:30, Sherrie Kubis wrote:
Does anyone have experience with third-party support vendors, or
additional information on what will no longer be accessible without
maintenance?
While I haven't seriously looked at third-party support, the one critical
piece that seems to be missing is access to software patches. Those have
unfortunately proven to be crucial for me to be able to keep our Production
DBs afloat, and I don't even generally apply CPUs/PSUs. It also impacts
"free" Oracle software like EM12c, where the upgrade to 12.1.0.5 requires
patch 11061801.
Perhaps patching is a question that needs to be asked of the support
vendors you interview.
GL!
Rich
