Number of processor x number of cores x core factorįor example, the core factor of an Intel or AMD processor is 0.5. A core factor is applied according to the model, the type, and the number of cores of the processor. The physical processor licensing model depends on the Oracle product.įor Standard database edition, the processor is licensed per socket: You need as many licenses as sockets used by the server running the Oracle product.įor Enterprise database edition, the processor is licensed per core. Physical processor, which I will discuss here. ![]() Remember that Oracle offers two types of licensing: Without entering in details, the customer had a VMware cluster with three nodes and had not enough licenses to meet the Oracle licensing requirement. Recently, I faced an Oracle licensing problem on a VMware ESX cluster on which I had to find a workaround in order to make the hardware comply with the customer’s licensing model. In this post, I would like to share with you what I have learned about Oracle licensing particularities on a virtualization infrastructure (software partitioning) based on VMware ESX.
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