Re: Oracle and VM

From: Rodd Holman <rodd.holman_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:05:54 -0500
Message-ID: <CAP7tgavijzb=DSMktrZxbdq-NR8ELJY_u6VryxytsxOs9Wn8aw_at_mail.gmail.com>

Yes, that is true. It's a concession they made after they purchased Sun. --Rodd

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Patterson, Joel <Joel.Patterson_at_crowley.com
> wrote:

> An afterthought:
> We are using Solaris 'Containers' (solaris's version of virtualization) --
> and we are able to limit the number of CPU's we can license to less than
> the total amount on the physical hardware.
>
> Joel Patterson
> Database Administrator
> 904 727-2546
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> On Behalf Of Niall Litchfield
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 6:23 AM
> To: howard.latham_at_gmail.com
> Cc: ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: Oracle and VM
>
> You can *run *Oracle on whatever virtualization platform you want. I've
> used Oracle VM, VMware, Virtual Box, Amazon EC2 and seen it running on
> Hyper-V. The relevant document is the support policy "Support Position for
> Oracle Products Running on VMWare Virtualized Environments [ID 249212.1] "
> which is clear (if not entirely satisfactory!).
> When it comes to licensing you will typically find that non-Oracle
> virtualisation requires *every *CPU in the underlying hardware to be
> licensed, whereas Oracle virtualisation can be configured (*but isn't by
> default) *so that you only have to license the virtual CPUs dedicated to
> the Oracle VM.
>
> There's no technical reason not to use whatever virtualisation product you
> want. There often are plenty of monetary reasons not to.
>
>

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