Re: RAC and ASM - Standard vs. Enterprise Edition install process ?
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:36:20 -0600
Message-ID: <bc04324b0902200936o5b131034n3a72eb694bb79888_at_mail.gmail.com>
AFAIK, the licensing restrictions in SE are just that--licensing restrictions. I'm not sure about CPU count, but I do know that building RAC with SE doesn't technically require ASM, just that the license does. I tend to believe that the CPU restrictions are just paper restrictions and won't really be technical limits, but I'm not positive.
Dan
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Crisler, Jon <Jon.Crisler_at_usi.com> wrote:
> I am wondering what happens if you try to install SE on a server with
> more CPU's than is allowed by SE. As anybody knows that tries to figure
> out licensing costs for Oracle, there is a difference in processor
> sockets, processor cores, and cluster configs. But does SE actually
> enforce any CPU limits ? Will it just set the parameter "cpu_count" to 4
> and not let it increase beyond that value ?
>
> For EE, 1 core = 1 processor.
> For SE, 1 socket = 1 processor (so a single socket with a 4-core chip
> is 1 processor)
> For SE, 4 cpu sockets is the limit for a RAC cluster, which implies a 4
> node max config.
>
> I am just looking at Intel / AMD processors, and ignoring Sun Sparc for
> now which is even more complex. I think my servers are ok for now,
> but we might have to remove CPU's to stay compliant with the license.
>
> http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/databaselicensing.pdf
>
>
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