Re: Licensing - Processors versus sockets versus cores
From: joel garry <joel-garry_at_home.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:02:46 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <4b2396d6-249c-4521-ae28-e1ed91a9f3c7_at_b25g2000prb.googlegroups.com>
On Aug 14, 10:35 am, BD <robert.d..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey, all.
>
> My Oracle Sales rep isn't picking up, and I'm losing my marbles trying
> to get a consistent answer to this question.
>
> Re. Licensing and hardware support of Database 10g R2 - Standard
> Versus Enterprise.
>
> I need to understand the maximum number of CPUs that Standard will
> support. I'm seeing CPUs, Processors, Cores and Sockets all batted
> about in the documentation, and it's unclear to me what the
> limitations are.
>
> My server is 4 quad-core Intel CPUs. 16 cores total. I've seen the
> licensing doc that discusses the fact that Licensing of Oracle on such
> servers is calculated based on the total number of cores /2.
>
> But: It's unclear to me how many cores the Standard software supports.
>
> Note 271886.1 says that Standard maxes out at 4 'Processors'. Is that
> to be taken to mean physical sockets, or processor cores? A reference
> to a technote that makes this distinction would be greatly
> appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
>
> BD
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:02:46 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <4b2396d6-249c-4521-ae28-e1ed91a9f3c7_at_b25g2000prb.googlegroups.com>
On Aug 14, 10:35 am, BD <robert.d..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey, all.
>
> My Oracle Sales rep isn't picking up, and I'm losing my marbles trying
> to get a consistent answer to this question.
>
> Re. Licensing and hardware support of Database 10g R2 - Standard
> Versus Enterprise.
>
> I need to understand the maximum number of CPUs that Standard will
> support. I'm seeing CPUs, Processors, Cores and Sockets all batted
> about in the documentation, and it's unclear to me what the
> limitations are.
>
> My server is 4 quad-core Intel CPUs. 16 cores total. I've seen the
> licensing doc that discusses the fact that Licensing of Oracle on such
> servers is calculated based on the total number of cores /2.
>
> But: It's unclear to me how many cores the Standard software supports.
>
> Note 271886.1 says that Standard maxes out at 4 'Processors'. Is that
> to be taken to mean physical sockets, or processor cores? A reference
> to a technote that makes this distinction would be greatly
> appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
>
> BD
http://www.pythian.com/news/1009/recent-changes-to-oracle-se-licensing-rules-higher-price might help, or might not.
jg
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