Re: Another licensing Q
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 16:11:34 -0600
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On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 3:08 PM, Stefan Knecht <knecht.stefan_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> This is actually documented by Oracle, here:
>
> http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/partitioning-070609.pdf
>
> In a nutshell, disabling something in a BIOS is not an approved method of
> reducing the number of cores. You need to use one of the listed methods and
> you'll be fine.
>
>
> Stefan
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 12:26 AM, Atkinson, Matthieu <
> matthieu.atkinson_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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/>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Andrew W. Kerber
>>>
>>> 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'
>>>
>>
>>
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