Re: Was: Oracle in an AIX LPAR Hijacking thread to a licensing discussion

It includes the Oracle licensing guideline (point 2.1) in case of capped micro-partitions: "Sum Entitled Capacities of the capped micro-partitions".

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> "Hubler, Daniel" <daniel.hubler_at_aurora.org> hat am 4. März 2015 um 23:03 geschrieben:
>
> Sorry to hijack the thread.
>
> Does anybody know of a document or discussion about Oracle licensing and AIX micro-partitioning?
> (I am already aware of the MOS document about licensing and partitioning policy).
> Our Oracle sales folk are telling us that within a single machine,
> we can have multiple micro-partitions, add up their hard-capped values and then round up to get the number
> of cores needed for licensing.
>
> Example:
> (all hard capped)
> micro-partition #1 = 1.2 CPUs
> micro-partition #2 = 2.3 CPUs
> micro-partition #3 = 1.1 CPUs
> total = 4.6 CPU
>
> Then round up to 5 CPU for licensing??????
> Is this the correct process?
>
> Daniel Hubler
> Aurora Healthcare
> IT Infrastructure
> daniel.hubler_at_aurora.org

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