Archive for Juni 26th, 2013

Understanding Oracle Certification, Support and Licensing for VMware Environments – a white paper

Mittwoch, Juni 26th, 2013

Certification Oracle – has not certified any of its products on VMware vSphere (or on any third-party platform below the operating system)

Support Oracle – support policy states that “Oracle will only provide support for issues that either are known to occur on the native OS, or can be demonstrated not to be as a result of running on VMware

License all CPUs in a VMware Host – Oracle products are licensed by physical core or socket and for these products Oracle does not have a virtual CPU-based licensing mechanism. In a VMware vSphere environment the consequence of Oracle’s licensing policy is that customers must license all physical cores or sockets in the VMware vSphere host

Fully Licensed VMware Cluster – multiple hosts are typically clustered together enabling virtual machines to move freely between the VMware hosts by means of vMotion so all VMware hosts in the cluster have to fully licensed to run the Oracle products

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