Re: Oracle licensing with disk replication
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:01:35 +0000
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It does not matter what the sales reps are telling you, it does not matter what various "policy" explanations say even if they are written by Oracle, it only matters what your contracts say. Therefore the question is: what do your contracts say? They likely say "processors where the software is installed and/or running."
Questions:
- If there is SAN to SAN replication but no processors have mounted the binaries, how many additional processors does the contract require you to license?
- How do you test your DR setup without additional licenses?
- When you fail over or switch over, is the software "installed and or/running" in two places simultaneously, even for a microsecond?
When answering the above questions, remember you must argue from the contracts only without reliance on any policy explanations since all policy explanations are explicitly non-contractual. A good article to read is http://houseofbrick.com/licensing-oracle-software-in-cloud-environments-an-article-for-the-nocoug/ even though it is ostensibly about licensing Oracle in the cloud.
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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org <oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org> on behalf of Hubler, Daniel <daniel.hubler_at_aurora.org> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2018 1:00 PM
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Subject: Oracle licensing with disk replication
We started work on a 2nd data center 2 years ago, and the equipment to make it functional is starting to come together.
One of the things that is happening is using Hitachi storage and replicating everything in the primary data center
to the secondary.
So we end up with a bunch of storage frames at the 2nd location containing exact copies of the disk at our primary location.
The folks who manage our contracts are telling us that Oracle corp. is being a pain,
and demanding compensation for these replicated copies of their software, which basically sit idle.
Personally, I can see how Oracle would want a piece of this, because we do derive benefit from it.
The contract folks are suggesting that ONLY Oracle corp. is behaving this way.
None of our other vendors.
Does this jive with other people�s experience?
Thanks for your input.
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