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Soft and Hard Partitioning in OVM on x86?

robMar 22 2012 — edited Mar 26 2012

G'day-

I'm investigating utilizing OVM to segment a multi-core Xeon chip to allow me to use my two CPU worth of DB EE within licensing constraints.

I understand VMWare is considered "soft partitioning" of the CPU, and thus you have to license every core for the database, regardless of the number of cores dedicated to the database serve.

OVM, I have read, supports both hard and soft partitioning.

How does this work, exactly? If I have two CPU worth of DB EE, could I hard partition 4 Xeon cores (two CPU worth, license-wise) into multiple VMs and run databases within those VMs? That is, can I soft partition within a hard partition? I haven't found a good document that describes how OVM views hard and soft partitioning. Is one out there?

Thanks!

Rob

Edited by: 922838 on Mar 22, 2012 11:04 AM

This post has been answered by Avi Miller-Oracle on Mar 22 2012

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