Re: Oracle DB licensing on HA

Gerold Krommer wrote:
> Sorry, if this is either a FAQ or beaten to death elswhere, but I looked on
> google and on metalink and couldn't find anything.
>
> How does Oracle handle licensing in HA environments? We have a customer,
> which has HPUX/HACMP as well as Wintel/MS Cluster.
>
> Both are clusters where there is *no* parallel server, but Oracle is running
> on one node only. The other node is idle. If failover occurs, it will run
> only on the other node. All nodes have 2 CPUs and the licensing the customer
> has is a CPU based license.
>
> A simple pointer to the relevant docs would be helpful enough.
>
> Thanks for all efforts,
>
> /Gerold
>
>

You might find the documents at http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/ useful (or confusing).

BTW - under 'Specialty Topics', the term 'Partitioning' refers to hardware, not Oracle database, partitioning.

Unfortunately each time I've asked (or been asked) this specific question, the "official" response from Oracle seems to change - sometimes it's "all CPUs need to be licensed", "only active CPUs need to be licensed if failover testing happens less than 10 days per year", and other times .... I think the selection of answer is based on a repeatable calendar period ('that time of the month ^H^H^H^H^H^H quarter').

/Hans Received on Tue Mar 16 2004 - 07:23:07 CST