Re: Licensing Oracle SE One on VMWare cluster

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:22:22 +0100
Message-ID: <CABe10sZ9rOGc_ZnpaYEof+aX1=60Zrp0voXgW=KYEQtkF=HQHQ_at_mail.gmail.com>

I thought Michael was both clear and correct. You can't run RAC SE as you describe because the cluster has more than 4 sockets. The cluster is the normal definition of cluster - that is the group of machines working together to provide services transparently. It most definitely doesn't refer to individual resources within the cluster - such as a RAC instance.

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Sebastian Kolski < sebastian.kolski_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/20/2011 11:05 PM, Michael Brown wrote:
> > Unfortunately, licensing works like this:
> >
> > 2) Standard Edition no more than 4 sockets within the cluster (one or
> > more machines just no more than 4 total sockets) (same OVM and EC2
> > comment).
>
> I was always wondering what is the meaning of cluster in that 4 socket
> within the cluster limitation. Does the cluster means RAC instance. Or
> is it about clusterware.
> So can you run RAC SE instance on cluster which has more the 4 sockets
> if you limit that instance to nodes with 4 or less sockets in total?
> Or if you have big cluster running RAC EE can you run on it RAC SE on
> one or two nodes (pined) if total sockets count for those nodes does not
> exceed 4.
>
> Cheers,
> Sebastian Kolski
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>

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