Re: Oracle Licensing on VMware

From: Peter Gram Miracle A/S <pgr_at_miracleas.dk>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 12:51:41 +0200
Message-ID: <CAP=Qj1_fdNNBRAfQD53TPB3wfY0-LPFeykuD0jWbodV+EobUwA_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi
I think you are looking for this document http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/partitioning-070609.pdf

Best Regards / Venlig Hilsen

Peter Gram

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On 11 October 2013 12:46, Niels Jespersen <NJN_at_dst.dk> wrote:

> Hello
>
> We are running a few Oracle (11.2) databases on VMware. We have of course
> licensed all CPUs in the underlying physical machine.
>
> But where can I find official licensing rules regarding Oracle Database on
> VMware and other virtualization environments?
>
> The Licensing Information manual does not mention virtualized environments
> at all. Beyond that I have only found a paper named "Oracle Partitioning
> Policy" that more or less explains that you have to license the full host
> in case of "soft partitioning" like VMware.
>
> Nothing about VMware clustering, vMotion, DRS (Dynamic Resource
> Scheduling) and so on.
>
> I could, of course, ask my Oracle representative, but I prefer to read the
> official wording (if it exists) in solitude before that.
>
> Regards Niels Jespersen
>
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