Another licensing Q
From: Biju Thomas <biju.thomas_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 19:37:33 +0000
Message-ID: <CAF9tyKrj5tm=VC9c7NLgeqtJZpCQVdFHb=y4fbmgCuGj_L039A_at_mail.gmail.com>
Question related to Oracle CPU licensing on Cisco UCS. My current blade has 32 cores (the result of “cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep processor|wc –l”). The sysadmin disabled all but four cores on each socket via the UCS BIOS and got the output of 8 when I ran the same command the second time. The OS only sees 8. The question is does Oracle allow me to license only 8 visible cores, or do I have to still license all 32 present on the blade?
Biju Thomas
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 19:37:33 +0000
Message-ID: <CAF9tyKrj5tm=VC9c7NLgeqtJZpCQVdFHb=y4fbmgCuGj_L039A_at_mail.gmail.com>
Question related to Oracle CPU licensing on Cisco UCS. My current blade has 32 cores (the result of “cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep processor|wc –l”). The sysadmin disabled all but four cores on each socket via the UCS BIOS and got the output of 8 when I ran the same command the second time. The OS only sees 8. The question is does Oracle allow me to license only 8 visible cores, or do I have to still license all 32 present on the blade?
I believe such licensing is possible on ODA (Oracle Database Appliance). https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E22693_01/doc.12/e25375/chapter1.htm With bare-metal, you disable cores that will not be used by the Oracle Database by adding your hardware Support Identifier (SI) for Oracle Database Appliance to your My Oracle Support account and creating a key.
Thanks much!
Biju Thomas
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