Re: Don't Virtualize Oracle

From: Seth Miller <sethmiller.sm_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 15:05:36 -0500
Message-ID: <CAEueRAW1OtKz9-kpZ7Oq7fPGr7qivm8q549zvkxi9-jP04jNjw_at_mail.gmail.com>

Great article Dennis! Thanks for posting.

*Running Oracle on a dedicated group of servers within a vSphere cluster, sometimes referred to as a subcluster, is a different matter, however. "Oracle likes to tell prospects and customers that if they are running Oracle on any physical server within a large vSphere cluster they have to license the entire cluster for Oracle. Nothing could be further from the truth," Welch says. *

*"The contract states that you must license any physical server on which you have installed or are running Oracle binaries. But you don't have to license other servers in that cluster," he insists. "Amazingly, many organizations don't know that."*

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Dennis Williams < oracledba.williams_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> This article starts with the licensing pitfalls of virtualizing Oracle
> databases, but goes further and touches on many Oracle licensing issues.
>
>
> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9248130/Virtualizing_Oracle_software_Don_t_pay_for_what_you_don_t_need?source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2014-05-07
>
> Dennis Williams
>

--
http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l

Received on Wed May 07 2014 - 22:05:36 CEST