Oracle Database Discussions

All,

As per Oracle documentation, Oracle licensing is based on cores.

So if I am running an Oracle database on 12 cores and if th multiplier is 0.5 , I need to have 6 oracle processor licenses.

I would like to know what is Oracle's stand on machines like SUN T4 where each core has multiple threads, in this case 8 threads.

I have tried to check with Oracle and they say threads do not matter.

What I see on SUN T4 is that if I have a LDOM with 4 cores , which is equivalent to 32 threads, and then if I run a database on top of this, the db treats 32 threads as 32 CPUs. When I check the default value of cpu_count parameter on the database , it is 32.

The core multiplier for T4 is 0.5.

So how many db licenses do I need for this database ?

Will it be 2 , considering that I have 4 cores or

16 considering that the datsbase sees 32 CPUs equivalent to 32 threads.

AU

Edited by: user11257872 on Aug 13, 2012 7:11 AM