How is Oracle licensed on VMware?
Oracle Database Licensing in a VMware Virtual Environment (Part 1 of 3) Oracle’s database product is offered with two types of licenses: Named User Plus (NUP) based on the number of users using the database and Processor based on the physical characteristics of the device (server) supporting the database process.
Is Oracle certified to run on VMware?
Oracle has not certified any of its products on VMware virtualized environments. If a problem is a known Oracle issue, Oracle support will recommend the appropriate solution on the native OS. If that solution does not work in the VMware virtualized environment, the customer will be referred to VMware for support.
What is embedded Oracle license?
Embedded Software License (ESL) The ESL is the most restrictive license type, it allows the end user to use Oracle Software without doing any customization for example, end users can use oracle database when purchasing Oracle EBS where end user is not allowed to modify or customize.
How much does it cost to reduce Oracle license?
Another way to reduce Oracle license counts is to use hardware that runs fewer, but more powerful, processor cores. Oracle publishes a Processor Core Factor Table that determines the number of licenses required for specific server models. The higher the core factor, the more licenses are required.
Can Oracle run on a VM?
The Oracle VM Manager does not necessarily have to run on a separate physical server in your environment. Using this installation you set up the bare minimum to run a virtual machine: one Oracle VM Server, one NFS storage server and the default management network should suffice.
How does Oracle named license work?
The Named User Plus metric allows you to license your programs by the number of users. For example, the standard Named User Plus license minimum for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition is 25 Named User Plus licenses for every licensable processor. The minimum for most middleware programs is 10 per processor.
Does Oracle own VMware?
With this announcement, Oracle becomes a partner in the VMware Cloud Provider Program and Oracle Cloud VMware Solution will be sold by Oracle and its partners. The solution will be based on VMware Cloud Foundation and will deliver a full stack software-defined data center (SDDC) including VMware vSphere, NSX, and vSAN.
Does VMware vCenter support Oracle software licensing?
Before looking into the details of licensing Oracle software in VMware’s vCenter 6.0, let’s do a short recap on the licensing rules for the pre-6.0 scenario’s, as they will be applied by Oracle during the course of an Oracle License Review or License Audit.
What are Oracle’s software licensing models?
Oracle’s Technology software programs (e.g. Database and Middleware) are typically licensed on a “Processor” licensing model or on a “Named User Plus” licensing model.
How much does it cost to deploy Oracle on VMware vSphere?
In this case, the customer had to decide between deploying Oracle on dedicated physical servers or on a vSphere cluster. By deploying on a vSphere cluster, Oracle licensing costs were reduced by half, from a total of $1,520,000 to $760,000.
What is a fully licensed Oracle virtual machine?
Virtual machines are running on processor cores fully licensed for Oracle. Virtual machine movement is restricted to hosts that are fully licensed for Oracle. Virtual machine execution and inter-host movements are tracked so that customers are able to demonstrate compliance with Oracle’s requirements.