Re: Another licensing Q

This is actually documented by Oracle, here:

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/partitioning-070609.pdf

In a nutshell, disabling something in a BIOS is not an approved method of reducing the number of cores. You need to use one of the listed methods and you'll be fine.

Stefan

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 12:26 AM, Atkinson, Matthieu < matthieu.atkinson_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have customers running OVM on non-Oracle hardware that have successfully
> completed an Oracle audit... as a matter of fact, in france at least,
> there's an increase demand in OVM deployments outside of ODA.
>
> On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I am pretty sure that Oracle will only accept that method on Oracle
>> hardware, ie ODA. You will probably need to license all of them on any
>> other hardware. That is not any sort of official answer of course, but its
>> my best guess.
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 2:41 AM, Marian Bednar <bednar_at_nbs.sk> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Thomas,
>>>
>>> only note - on bare-metal servers output form “cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep
>>> processor|wc –l” usually show the number of threads (if multithreading
>>> is on) then number of cores is half of it. Try command "lscpu".
>>> Number of cores you can also see in oracle alert.log during instance
>>> startup (since 11.2.0.4), e.g.
>>>
>>> Initial number of CPU is 16
>>> Number of processor cores in the system is 8
>>> Number of processor sockets in the system is 2
>>>
>>> Marian
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Biju Thomas <biju.thomas_at_gmail.com>
>>> To: "oracle-l_at_freelists.org" <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>,
>>> Date: 03. 11. 2017 20:38
>>> Subject: Another licensing Q
>>> Sent by: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Question related to Oracle CPU licensing on Cisco UCS. My current blade
>>> has 32 cores (the result of “cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep processor|wc –l”).
>>> The sysadmin disabled all but four cores on each socket via the UCS BIOS
>>> and got the output of 8 when I ran the same command the second time. The OS
>>> only sees 8. The question is does Oracle allow me to license only 8 visible
>>> cores, or do I have to still license all 32 present on the blade?
>>>
>>> I believe such licensing is possible on ODA (Oracle Database Appliance).
>>> *https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E22693_01/doc.12/e25375/chapter1.htm*
>>> <https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E22693_01/doc.12/e25375/chapter1.htm>
>>> With bare-metal, you disable cores that will not be used by the Oracle
>>> Database by adding your hardware Support Identifier (SI) for Oracle
>>> Database Appliance to your My Oracle Support account and creating a key.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks much!
>>> Biju Thomas
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best,
>>> Biju Thomas
>>> *www.bijoos.com* <http://www.bijoos.com/>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Andrew W. Kerber
>>
>> 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'
>>
>
>

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