Re: Limit CPU number on ORACLE database??

From: Mark Brinsmead <pythianbrinsmead_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 01:38:04 -0400
Message-ID: <cf3341710605032238r249eecb8qf115be0684043116@mail.gmail.com>

Paul,

Your question is one of laws and licenses, not technology.

Only with "hardware partitioning", a feature that generally appears in only very high-end (and high-price) servers, are you able to (legally) license fewer CPUs than are physically installed in the server. If your server happens to be an IBM P520, for example, you can do what you describe. With most linux hardware, you cannot (yet).

Note: you need to thoroughly understand the difference between "hardware partitioning" and "software partitioning" as Oracle defines it. The dividing line is quite hazy in places.

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-- Mark Brinsmead

   Staff DBA,
   The Pythian Group
   http://www.pythian.com/blogs

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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Thu May 04 2006 - 00:38:04 CDT