Re: Another licensing Q

Hello,

I have customers running OVM on non-Oracle hardware that have successfully completed an Oracle audit... as a matter of fact, in france at least, there's an increase demand in OVM deployments outside of ODA.

On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I am pretty sure that Oracle will only accept that method on Oracle
> hardware, ie ODA. You will probably need to license all of them on any
> other hardware. That is not any sort of official answer of course, but its
> my best guess.
>
> On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 2:41 AM, Marian Bednar <bednar_at_nbs.sk> wrote:
>
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> only note - on bare-metal servers output form “cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep
>> processor|wc –l” usually show the number of threads (if multithreading
>> is on) then number of cores is half of it. Try command "lscpu".
>> Number of cores you can also see in oracle alert.log during instance
>> startup (since 11.2.0.4), e.g.
>>
>> Initial number of CPU is 16
>> Number of processor cores in the system is 8
>> Number of processor sockets in the system is 2
>>
>> Marian
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Biju Thomas <biju.thomas_at_gmail.com>
>> To: "oracle-l_at_freelists.org" <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>,
>> Date: 03. 11. 2017 20:38
>> Subject: Another licensing Q
>> Sent by: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
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>>
>>
>> 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*
>> <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
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best,
>> Biju Thomas
>> *www.bijoos.com* <http://www.bijoos.com/>
>>
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