Re: Oracle Licensing on VMware

From: Justin Mungal <justin_at_n0de.ws>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 05:54:22 -0500
Message-ID: <CAO9=aUzLOMRZx0bkfTq87E2FfCJhmwmJPKEuSCKOyXXMBPpCQQ_at_mail.gmail.com>

The licensing manual makes no mention of VMware because Oracle Corp. doesn't support any sort of virtual CPU based licensing. Licensing the physical CPUs is the only way to go, currently. http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vmw-understanding-oracle-certification-supportlicensing-environments.pdf

-Justin

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:46 AM, 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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