Oracle processor core factor table vendor and processor core processor. It should be known that running vsan or vxrail in no way impacts oracle licensing and existing tools of segmentation drs affinity. Back in juli 2009 i had the first collisions with the oracle sales force about licensing oracle on top of vmware environments. Each virtual cpu is a treated as a processor core, so check oracle licensing for the current multiplier i believe. Core factor see the oracle processor core factor table. In both cases, each blade has 2 sockets, with each core having 4 cores. Oracle linux licensing issues in standalone and oracle vm. Understanding vmware licensing with oracle database trends. When you assign a vsphere license to a host, the amount of cpu capacity consumed equals the number of physical cpus in the host.
With this change, vmware is still using the percpu licensing model, but we will require one license for any software offering that we license on a. Sets the number of virtual cpu cores the guest oses can see. Vmware does provide a feature called host affinity rules which allows us to ensure vms running oracle products are only running on specified hosts and cannot be moved elsewhere. With newly released intel and amd chips that have eight and 12 cores, per core licensing can get expensive quickly. Oracle vmware host affinity rules oracle vmware oracle. Mar 01, 20 if you host oracle on a vm in esx, you must license the entire esx server. Oracle standard edition uses a per socket licensing scheme, however, enterprise edition used a per core licensing scheme. Vmware could limit you to 2 os x guests per os x host.
Saving money by understanding oracle licensing part 2 amis. Return of the fud oracle licensing on vmware vsphere long. We just did our oracle 2 months backif you are on orracle se2 per processor licensingthen your link applies to you not for named user licensing. When licensing the oracle database by named user plus, all users who are using the oracle database, as well as all nonhuman operated devices that are. Dont pay for what you dont need moving oracle databases to virtual infrastructure may not result in software savings. Oracle database standard edition 2 is an affordable, fullfeatured database built for unprecedented ease of use, power, and performance. Mar 30, 2012 understanding oracle certification, support and licensing for vmware environments by vmware. Accordingly, the core licensing count required based on oracle licensing policy and related licensing cost for both clusters would be as follows. Even though oracle will accept certain extend of vmware virtualization limitation. Sep 17, 2014 lets say one decides to do the bios management of running vmware with oracle app server licensing on the active core count. Soft virtualization tools such as vmware will not aid in reducing license costs. Also, it goes against commonsense to use rac on vmware when the intent of rac is to make a big system from several small systems, while the intent of vmware is to breakdown a large system into several smaller systems. Oracle effectively doubles licence fees to run its stuff in aws.
Oracle vm licensing information user manual for release 3. Oracle licensing does not change from a licensing perspective, whether you. Hard partitioning means binding a virtual machine cpu to a physical cpu or core, and preventing it from running on other physical cores than the ones specified. Understanding oracle certification, support and licensing for. From my point of view, vmware doesnt have to say anything about that. Virtualisation doracle executer oracle sur une machine. Licensing is based around what oracle considers to be a hard partition for cpu resources for oracle vm, virtual cpus are hard partitions. Jul 06, 2017 although the olsa does not entitle oracle to audit servers not running oracle, in the last few years oracle has sought to stretch the installed andor running language of the processor definition when a customer is running a software product by vmware, which allows customers to run multiple virtual servers on one physical server. Understanding oracle certification, support and licensing for vmware environments by vmware. For linux guests, the default graphics device emulates a vmware svga. May 31, 20 recently, i faced an oracle licensing problem on a vmware esx cluster on which i had to find a workaround in order to make the hardware comply with the customers licensing model. When licensing the oracle database by named user plus, all users who are using the oracle database, as. Oracle licensing does not count logical cores, only physical ones. If you use standard edition or standard edition one on a 2 processor system you simply need 2 processor licenses.
All you need to know about oracle database licensing with vmware. Oracle licensing on vmware, cloud, hyper v and other virtualised platforms 1. Oracle does not play nice in the vmware world, and that just makes it too difficult to deal with them at every level. Then you can bult as many vm you want, with as many oracle instances you want. Licensing oracle on vmware vsphere is an area of much confusion and disagreement due to oracle not presenting clear public guidelines on whether drs affinity rules or vsphere cpu affinity are valid methods of partitioning. Agent for windows, agent for linux and agent for mac. Mar 27, 2015 oracle licensing on vmware, cloud, hyper v and other virtualised platforms 1. Setting hard partitioning for virtual machine cpus oracle. Lets say one decides to do the bios management of running vmware with oracle app server licensing on the active core count. When licensing oracle programs with standard edition one, standard edition 2 or standard edition in the product name, a processor is. Understanding oracle certification, support and licensing. If you want to play truth or dare with the oracle sales force now seems the time again. Recently, i faced an oracle licensing problem on a vmware esx cluster on which i had to find a workaround in order to make the hardware comply with the customers licensing model.
To understand the licensing and compliance implications of using vmware for virtualization, lets use a scenario to demonstrate the difference between vmwares licensing interpretation compared to oracles licensing policies. Although the olsa does not entitle oracle to audit servers not running oracle, in the last few years oracle has sought to stretch the installed andor running language of the processor definition when a customer is running a software product by vmware, which allows customers to run multiple virtual servers on one physical server. Vmware vsphere is the numberone virtualization solution in use by oracle shops representing 70% of ioug members in the survey and that use is growing, according to the survey. Host specification in order to calculate the umber of oracle database licenses, this tool requires information about the number of servershosts, the number of cpusprocessors per server, and the number of cores per cpu. This solution can be interesting if your company strategy is to install vmware systematically as an under layer for each system. Licensing around running vmware esx on a mac mini hosting multiple os x guests. Apr 03, 2011 licensing oracle on vmware vsphere is an area of much confusion and disagreement due to oracle not presenting clear public guidelines on whether drs affinity rules or vsphere cpu affinity are valid methods of partitioning. Mac os x is commercial, licensed software and contains both license and. Oracle on vmware vsphere, vsan, vxrail and vmware cloud. Oracle on vmware cloud on aws custom cpu core count. Want to play truth or dare with the oracle sales force. However, oracle uses a complex matrix to come to the final pricing values, so you might.
I have a very good question for all the oracle guru here. I believe this post is stating under contractual documents this is possible. Each datacenter will have its own vmware vcenter server managing all of the esxi hosts in that location. Osx and esxi licensing so i did some searching but a lot of posts i found were from a few years ago so i wasnt sure if anything has changed. In fact, even with physical servers, per core licensing from oracle has proven painful. Oracle database licensing with vmware dbi services. Hi, when you use oracle on vmware you cannot legally use the shared resources cpu, memory, it is not supported by oracle, the only way to be consistent with the law is to use the fixed resource assignment to each virtual machine, by doing so, you can prove to oracle that your virtual machine only use resources that have been licensed. This core factor is defined in the core factor table6 provided by oracle at. Licensing oracle workloads on vmware vsan hybridall flash vxrail.
Before looking into the details of licensing oracle software in vmwares vcenter 6. Vmware virtualization in conjunction with oracle products. Saving money by understanding oracle licensing, part 1 oracle licenses and the cloud keeping track of your licenses with oem12c reports oracle licenses needed while monitoring your nonoracle environment with oem usage tracking reports, using oracle enterprise manager c as a. Oracle fud in my articles fight the fud oracle licensing and support on vmware vsphere and return of the fud oracle licensing on vmware vsphere, but my recent discussion with an oracle account exec opened up even more high quality fud from the. If you think about oracle licensing, the way you license the software is dependent on the used licensed model.
All you need to know about oracle database licensing with. With the xeon 5550 processors, they also have 2 logical hyperthreading cores per physical core, giving me a total of 16 logical processors per m610 blade. The same logic and formula for calculating effective number of cores applies to licensing oracle on vsan or vxrail or vmware cloud on aws. In particular, oracle considers vmware technology to be soft partitioning. An oracle customer is using vmware vsphere to manage virtual machines in a cluster of 4 sun ultrasparc. Each vsphere license has a certain cpu capacity that you can use to license multiple physical cpus on esxi hosts. Welch outlined licensing and contract cases that should adhere to a specific set of rules by oracle when licensing vmware. Oracle vm virtualbox is a free and opensource hosted hypervisor for x86 virtualization, developed by oracle corporation. Virtualbox may be installed on windows, macos, linux, solaris and. Oct 31, 20 if you plan to run oracle linux as a guest on oracle vm, vmware or hyperv, you only have to pay for a single subscription per system, we do not charge per guest or per number of guests. Then i would refrain from using the word cluster as it have many different meaning when it comes to virtual machines in terms of microsoft servers, vmware and oracle. Jan 10, 2015 before diving into the oracle licensing questions, the very first thing you have to know about any oracle product, not only the oracle database, is that there is no oracle product certified on a vmware architecture. Martin thompson, founder and chairman of the campaign for clear licensing, told the reg. Vmware cpu affinity and oracle license vmware communities.
This is done for oracle cpu licensing purposes, since oracle vm is licensed on a per cpu basis. Amazon has implemented oracle vm ec2 instances in accordance with the practices defined in the oracle policy documentfrom an oracle product licensing point of view, this means that each virtual processor is equivalent to a physical core, and the standard oracle processor metric definition applies. Hard or soft partitioning is a license term for oracle. Basically i have a mac pro tower that i would like to run esxi 5.
Only hard partitioning applies to oracle licensing, so soft solutions vmware do not apply to license savings. On the other hand, oracle you really only need 1 server right. Aug 06, 2019 to understand the licensing and compliance implications of using vmware for virtualization, lets use a scenario to demonstrate the difference between vmwares licensing interpretation compared to oracles licensing policies. The core package is, since version 4 in december 2010, free software under. Understanding oracle certification, support and licensin for vmware environments take the example of a single oracle program virtual machine with oracle software contained in a vmdk specific to the virtual machine. Don sullivan will moderate a discussion between david welch of house of brick and daniel hesselink of license consulting.
Find answers to oracle licensing on vcpu vmware from the expert community at experts exchange. Created by innotek, it was acquired by sun microsystems in 2008, which was in turn acquired by oracle in 2010. You license the cores for standard edition it is the sockets where the oracle software may be able to run, that is all the cores on your esx farm servers. Host specification in order to calculate the umber of oracle database licenses, this tool requires information about the number of servershosts, the number of cpusprocessors per server, and the number of cores per cpu core factor see the oracle processor core factor table. Oracle on vmware vsphere, vsan, vxrail and vmware cloud on. So if you have 3 vms and they are running on a dual 6 core machine, that is 12 licenses per vm. In other words, you can run any number of oracle linux guests per physical server and count it as just a single subscription. Lets take a closer look at each approach, and see how it impacts oracle licensing costs. You also are now able to protect vmware, oracle and enterprise vault should. Please be aware, if it not in your contract, then that doesnt apply to you.
Vmware routinely submits and receives assistance with issues for oracle running on vmware virtual infrastructure. And oracle decides if a partitioning method is considered hard or soft, vmware provides a feature that can tie pcpu to vcpu, nothing else. Comparison of platform virtualization software wikipedia. This tool helps to determine the number of required oracle database licenses and estimate related costs. Hyperviseur virtual pc vmware workstation kernelbased virtual. Apr, 2017 vmware vsphere is the numberone virtualization solution in use by oracle shops representing 70% of ioug members in the survey and that use is growing, according to the survey.
This consists of the cpu type, the amount of memory, the ip address and the mac address. We want to virtualize under vmware 4 x oracle server. Apr, 2017 amazon has implemented oracle vm ec2 instances in accordance with the practices defined in the oracle policy documentfrom an oracle product licensing point of view, this means that each virtual processor is equivalent to a physical core, and the standard oracle processor metric definition applies. Jan 30, 2017 oracle effectively doubles licence fees to run its stuff in aws. Oracle licensing on vmware webinar vmware vsphere blog. Database trends and analysis will host the webinar. Native usually means that the virtualization technique does not do any cpu. May 02, 2016 before looking into the details of licensing oracle software in vmwares vcenter 6.
Apr 22, 2010 in particular, oracle considers vmware technology to be soft partitioning. In other words, you can run any number of oracle linux guests per physical server and count it as just a. We are not expecting you to be vmware licensing experts by the end of this guide. If you plan to run oracle linux as a guest on oracle vm, vmware or hyperv, you only have to pay for a single subscription per system, we do not charge per guest or per number of guests.
Oracle like this, greyness in their licensing practices allows them. Oracle licensing, support on vmware still a hindrance. Oracle licensing oracle faq welcome to the oracle faq. Oracle effectively doubles licence fees to run its stuff in. Oracle licensing on vmware, cloud, hyper v and other.
We have 2 x vmware esx server hp dl380 g5 each have 2 x intel quaq core. Oracle licenses it per host, per core, per instance. Vmwares new licensing fees are going to hurt amds 64core. Feb 24, 2016 martin thompson, founder and chairman of the campaign for clear licensing, told the reg. Sep 01, 2016 saving money by understanding oracle licensing, part 1 oracle licenses and the cloud keeping track of your licenses with oem12c reports oracle licenses needed while monitoring your nonoracle environment with oem usage tracking reports, using oracle enterprise manager c as a sam tool. Linux and mac os, and vmwares enterprise software hypervisors for servers run on server. It has led us in hardware cases to scale back to a single cpu, because of oracles pricing, gateman said. Without entering in details, the customer had a vmware cluster with three nodes and had not enough licenses to meet the oracle licensing requirement. Vmware is announcing the sponsorship of a webinar to address confusion on the subject of licensing oracle software running on vsphere. Before diving into the oracle licensing questions, the very first thing you have to know about any oracle product, not only the oracle database, is that there is no oracle product certified on a vmware architecture.
Note, this article mentions that it is possible to work with oracle on this. Platform virtualization software, specifically emulators and hypervisors, are software packages. Jan 04, 2017 the same logic and formula for calculating effective number of cores applies to licensing oracle on vsan or vxrail or vmware cloud on aws. Dedicating and licensing a new vmware vcenter server instance to oracle products with a separated physical storage for oracle in order to limit the oracle license footprint to this specific vcenter server instance.