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We can buy machines with the CPUs installed but turned off and only activate them when needed. I don't think we need to license Oracle for the CPUs that are turned off.
Regards,
Denny
-- Denny Koovakattu Quoting Jared.Still_at_radisys.com:Received on Mon Nov 17 2003 - 16:19:25 CST
> Actually, I believe it is even more restrictive than that.
>
> It doesn't matter how many CPU's are in the machine, what matters
> is how many CPU's the machine is capable of holding.
>
> So what they are really licensing is not the # of CPU's, but
> the class of the machine.
>
> Try digging in the archives, this has been discussed recently.
>
> Jared
>
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> "Tanel Poder" <tanel.poder.003_at_mail.ee>
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> Subject: Re: how can I make Oracle not use all processors in
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> Hi!
>
> You should check the licensing agreements first, AFAIK you need a licence
> for each CPU in server, it doesn't matter how many of them you actually
> use.
>
> Also I haven't heard that HP-UX supported CPU affinity anyway...
>
> Tanel.
>
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> > Hi!
> >
> > We are currently discussing Oracle licensing issues. Due to the number
> of
> > users, named user licensing is not an option for us.
> >
> > Our HP-boxes are having 10 processors each. Since the CPU's are 90%
> idle,
> we
> > are thinking about limiting Oracle to only using 4 out of the 10 CPUs.
> Is
> > this possible (i.e. via the parameter cpu_count)?
> > The other 6 CPU's will then be used by other applications ion the box
> (e.g.
> > BEA WebLogic etc.).
> >
> > This is 9.2 on HP-UX 11.11.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Helmut
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