Re: Oracle Licensing on VMware

If your big enough you can always negotiate. In the end, money talks, bullshit walks ;-)

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On wo, 2013-10-16 at 22:11 +1100, Nuno Souto wrote:


> On 15/10/2013 5:58 PM, D'Hooge Freek wrote:

> 

> > * you need to license all physical machines in the vcenter cluster (DRS

> > rules are not a valid way to limit the number of physical servers to be

> > licensed, regardless vmware states about this)

> 

> > The reasoning for the second is that, according to the processor

> > definition, you install the Oracle software on all physical servers in

> > the same vcenter cluster (yes, that is what they told me)

> >

> > Not sure if this last reasoning will uphold in court, but unless you are

> > prepared to go to court over this, you better follow it.

> >

> 

> We did. And it turned out either Oracle considered licensing all cores 

> in a host in our cluster - the exact words in their documents - or else 

> they'd be in  legal trouble as well as minus quite a lot of moolah in 

> maintenance and licensing fees.

> So now, our middleware is nicely licensed to run in a single host in a 

> BIG vmware cluster and we only paid the core licenses of that host.  

> Which is perfectly legit, IMHO.

> Of course: YMMV, no animals hurt in testing this product, etcetc...

> 

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