Re: PowerVM Live Partition Mobility
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:48:58 +0100 (CET)
Message-ID: <671228920.29446.1415810938369.open-xchange_at_app01.ox.hosteurope.de>
Hi Cheng,
unfortunately (or should i say luckily) i don't do Oracle license consulting for my clients, so i don't know how they worked out a solution for that introduced paragraph in 2013 (some of them are using that feature since end 2011 as far as i can remember). However they are still using IBM Power VM Live Partition Mobility, so they found a solution for that or are paying more right now.
You recently got that same issue with VMware as well, even it is not documented like the "IBM Power VM Live Partition Mobility" paragraph. Oracle has changed the license policy for Oracle products in a VMware infrastructure with version 5.1 or higher. Now you need to license the whole vCenter and not only the vCluster. This usually makes a huge licensing impact on the clients as only one vCenter is used for all vClusters.
Unfortunately the license article is in german only, but maybe interesting for the guys who are using Oracle in a VMware infrastructure: http://www.doag.org/home/aktuelle-news/article/oracle-aendert-lizenzierung-von-oracle-produkten-unter-vmware-vsphere-ab-version-51.html
Best Regards
Stefan Koehler
Oracle performance consultant and researcher
Homepage: http://www.soocs.de
Twitter: _at_OracleSK
> Ls Cheng <exriscer_at_gmail.com> hat am 12. November 2014 um 15:14 geschrieben:
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> Hi Mark
>
> The mobility feature in PowerVM allows you move online a LPAR from a physical server to another, in my ignorance I think it's like vMotion in
> VMWare. Itself does not create or destroys VMs.
>
> LPAR is a supported Hard Partitioning software, so the statement about Live Partition Mobility is sort of ambiguos, it's a feature which allows you
> to move a supported hard partitioning VM, i.e Live Partition Mobility is not a hard partitioning software, it just moves the VM. LPAR is a Power VM
> feature.
>
> I am questioning is because if one have been using Live Partition Mobility since 2009 and suddently in 2013 you are asked to stop using it becase
> Oracle changes his licensing policy it's a intrusive move no? And it's not even a patitioning feature.
>
>
> Thanks
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