RE: standby and Oracle licensing
- From: <Paula_Stankus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thump@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:43:42 -0500
Hate to tell you this but I was told the same thing. I went through
Government Sales.
Basically for standby (with data guard) you have to pay for licenses for
your DR server.
"Cluster" would be RAC. My understanding is that for the $$ of EE you
get to run RAC BUT for the different nodes you have to buy Oracle
licenses.
SQL Server allows you not to have to license the inactive node.
Oracle needs to be more competitive IMHO.
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 1:16 PM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: standby and Oracle licensing
I am under the impression that a physical standby DB is licensed under
the EE license for the primary and there is no additionl costs to run
the standby. We are be told now this is not true by Oracle sales and
they sent us a doc:
Failover: Nodes are configured in "cluster" with the first installed
node acting as a primary node. If the primary node fails, one of the
nodes in the cluster acts as the primary node. In this type of
environment, Oracle permits licensed Oracle Database customers to run
the Database on an unlicensed spare computer for up to a total of ten
separate days in any given calendar year. Any other use requires the
environment to be fully licensed. Additionally, the same metric must be
used when licensing the databases in a failover environment.
* Standby: One or many copies of the primary database are maintained on
separate server(s) at all times. These systems are configured for
disaster recovery purposes. If the primary database fails, the standby
database is activated to act as the new primary database. In this
environment, the primary and the standby databases must be fully
licensed. Additionally, the same metric must be used when licensing the
databases in a standby environment.
What is your understanding of this?
"cluster" "failover" "standby"
They are really cuttign off their nose here again.
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David
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