RE: Oracle VM server licensing
From: Kjetil Strønen <kjetil_at_oneteam.no>
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:33:18 +0200
Message-Id: <1284039198.2740.146.camel_at_ks-laptop.oneteam.no>
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 06:33 -0600, Sweetser, Joe wrote:
> This might help:
> http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/partitioning.pdf
>
> Basically, if you are “soft partitioning” a server, you need to
> license every CPU in the server. A nagging issue for many who want to
> run Oracle in, say, a VMWare environment.
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:33:18 +0200
Message-Id: <1284039198.2740.146.camel_at_ks-laptop.oneteam.no>
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 06:33 -0600, Sweetser, Joe wrote:
> This might help:
> http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/partitioning.pdf
>
> Basically, if you are “soft partitioning” a server, you need to
> license every CPU in the server. A nagging issue for many who want to
> run Oracle in, say, a VMWare environment.
Although not so with VMWare, Oracle does recognize pinning virtual
servers to physical cores as "hard partitioning" for licensing purposes
with Oracle VM, as
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/virtualization/pdf/ovm-hardpart.pdf
details (which is linked to in the partitioning.pdf).
--Kjetil
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