Comments on: Oracle licensing http://virtualize.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/oracle-licensing/ Experiences in Virtualization Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:37:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: iwan rahabok http://virtualize.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/oracle-licensing/#comment-6480 iwan rahabok Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:51:13 +0000 http://virtualize.wordpress.com/?p=122#comment-6480 Tx for sharing. The file (http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/virtualization/pdf/ovm-hardpart.pdf) has the title "Hard Partitioning", which means good news from licensing. But this is a technical article, not a licensing article, so I'm not 100% sure if Oracle will acknowledge it... This sentence in the doc is VERY interesting: "2 virtual CPUs and they can run on any of the 8 cores" in a box with total 8 core (2 quad-core chips). That means no CPU pinning. The VM can run on any of the cores, but only licence for 2 cores. Tx e1 Tx for sharing.

The file (http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/virtualization/pdf/ovm-hardpart.pdf) has the title “Hard Partitioning”, which means good news from licensing. But this is a technical article, not a licensing article, so I’m not 100% sure if Oracle will acknowledge it…

This sentence in the doc is VERY interesting: “2 virtual CPUs and they can run on any of the 8 cores” in a box with total 8 core (2 quad-core chips).
That means no CPU pinning. The VM can run on any of the cores, but only licence for 2 cores.

Tx
e1

]]> By: vmguru007 http://virtualize.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/oracle-licensing/#comment-6431 vmguru007 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:13:21 +0000 http://virtualize.wordpress.com/?p=122#comment-6431 Hi, I don't see why Oracle is making it that hard for their customers to move to virtualizations. I believe they should come with a new license schema that allow their customers to use virtualization without paying an arm and leg for extra Oracle license. VMguru007, http://www.virtualizationteam.com For a beautiful Virtualization World Hi,

I don’t see why Oracle is making it that hard for their customers to move to virtualizations. I believe they should come with a new license schema that allow their customers to use virtualization without paying an arm and leg for extra Oracle license.

VMguru007,
http://www.virtualizationteam.com
For a beautiful Virtualization World

]]> By: Matt http://virtualize.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/oracle-licensing/#comment-6228 Matt Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:41:20 +0000 http://virtualize.wordpress.com/?p=122#comment-6228 Oracle appear to recognize binding a VM to a particular host CPU as a form of "hard partitioning": * http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Hard+partitioning * http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/virtualization/pdf/ovm-hardpart.pdf Their example is for Xen but I assume they would have to support this under ESX as well. Does this change anything or is this just a case of Oracle's right hand not knowing what its left hand is doing? :) Oracle appear to recognize binding a VM to a particular host CPU as a form of “hard partitioning”:

* http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Hard+partitioning
* http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/virtualization/pdf/ovm-hardpart.pdf

Their example is for Xen but I assume they would have to support this under ESX as well.

Does this change anything or is this just a case of Oracle’s right hand not knowing what its left hand is doing? :)

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