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Licensing factor vCPU CPU on OVM

CobertJan 17 2019

Hello,

Apologies in advance to those telling me to move this to our Oracle marketing consultant or the DB forum.

I have consulted a lot of online documentation, and wish to ask the OVM community wrt vCPU and CPU on OVM and it's applicability to calculating licensing costs.

The OVM in question has a mix of vCPU and CPU (visible through OEM), hence why I am confused around this area.

I cannot find a concise answer to licensing of DBs on OVM specifically around the area of vCPU / CPU core factor, and would like this clarified. When can you use the vCPU factor, and when does the normal MF (0.5 per Intel core) apply?

I am aware that:

The normal MF is 0.5 per processor. So 2 core = 1 CPU.

The MF for vCPUs on Oracle is 0.25 (referenced http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/contracts/processor-core-factor-table-070634.pdf ).

My own understanding is that vCPU is for Oracle Trusted Partition, so Exadata etc.

If you are using a vCPU (which will show up in EM), this will present as vCPU, and can be costed at 0.25MF per processor (4 cores => 1 processor EE)

If you are using a pinned processor, dedicated to 1x VM, it can be costed at 0.5MF per processor (2 cores => 1 processor for most intel as per licensing factor).

References:

Oracle Partitioning Policy:

https://www.oracle.com/assets/partitioning-070609.pdf

Oracle Hard Partitioning with Oracle VM Server for x86

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/vm/ovm-hardpart-168217.pdf

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/contracts/processor-core-factor-table-070634.pdf

Apologies in advance for annoying licensing questions.

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