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Tom Kyte

Thanks for the question, Bill.

Asked: May 23, 2012 - 3:28 pm UTC

Last updated: May 23, 2012 - 4:03 pm UTC

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Previous discussions on this site seem to suggest that I can license all of the processors in a two node VMware cluster, and host as many VMs running Oracle database as I'd like.

Do I have to license the server nodes for EACH VMware VM that's running an Oracle database, or is the license only required a single time for the hardware that will be running all of the Oracle instances?

Thanks,

Bill

and Tom said...

you license to the hardware. On a machine with "soft partitioning", you would license for the whatever the box has physically on it.

not per vm.

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A reader, May 23, 2012 - 9:36 pm UTC


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