Re: Oracle Licensing on VMware

I won't argue with you about how insane the reasoning is, but this is what Oracle LMS stated after a license review of a client. Trust me, I have battled with Oracle about this...

But as stated before, the only valid source for license rules is Oracle LMS (and make sure you have it in writing).

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On di, 2013-10-15 at 10:49 -0500, Jeremy Schneider wrote:


> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 1:58 AM, D'Hooge Freek

> <Freek.DHooge_at_uptime.be> wrote:

>         * you need to license all physical machines in the vcenter

>         cluster (DRS

>         rules are not a valid way to limit the number of physical

>         servers to be

>         licensed, regardless vmware states about this)

>         

>         The reasoning for the second is that, according to the

>         processor

>         definition, you install the Oracle software on all physical

>         servers in

>         the same vcenter cluster (yes, that is what they told me)

> 

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> 

> IMHO, that's clearly incorrect from a technical perspective.  Oracle's

> software investment guide does discuss how having the binaries

> installed on a standby server means the server must be licensed

> (compare illustration 4 with illustration 6).  But a VMware cluster is

> illustration 4 and not illustration 6.  It functions like HACMP, HP

> Service Guard or Veritas which are all explicitly mentioned in this

> category and which don't require licensing the failover server if you

> meet the stated conditions. Now these requirements for getting out of

> license costs are very strict: in addition to the 10-day limit, you

> also are allowed to only have one "standby" node - if the cluster has

> more than two nodes then all but one must be licensed.  Honestly I

> suspect that in 99% of cases, customers do need to license the entire

> VMware cluster because their cluster doesn't meet the definition of a

> failover cluster - so I'm not surprised this would be the usual answer

> from LMS.  Definitely need to read carefully and of course discuss

> with Oracle.

> 

> 

> -Jeremy

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