Oracle licensing agreement, is intended to help you. Users interested in centralized policy management using the Oracle. included with Oracle Database 10g. Understanding the Essentials of Licensing Oracle Technology Products Michelle Agul Oracle Technology Solutions Group. •Software License –The “right to use. Our Mission Oracle's Global Pricing and Licensing organization is dedicated to establishing uniform corporate policies for Oracle's customers and partners, with. Feature Availability by Edition 1-2 Oracle Database Licensing Information makes it easy to upgrade to the other editions of Oracle without costly and complex migrations. Oracle Database XE can be installed on any size machine with any number.
Oracle database licensing & pricing. Note: This literature review is a. Oracle and news. sources on 2.
August 2. 00. 5. The license rules. August 2. 00. 5. survey may not apply to your special cases. IT IS NOT a good idea. We recommend hiring Oracle. Certified professionals to conduct a. Also see. my notes on Oracle standby database.
Overview of Oracle Store License. The. Oracle Store web site has complete MSRP. Oracle database licenses. As of. August 2. 00. 5, Oracle has two pricing models, "named. Historically. Oracle has also sold "unlimited use" licenses for. Oracle Store web site. Named User Plus - This is a pricing.
. Oracle 10g, Oracle 11g or. Oracle Partitioning Policy document. Oracle Standard. Oracle License and Services Agreement. of the Oracle licensing scheme.
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Processor - The processor license. Oracle servers. Oracle licensing and replicated. Many Oracle shops are now using Oracle replication tools (Oracle. Streams, standby database, data guard, multi- master replication) to. Oracle server as protection against hardware.
However, many Oracle shops forget that all ? Oracle transactions) may. Oracle license. This. Oracle license pricing document (as of March 1.
Standby ? In this type of recovery, a copy of the primary. These systems are configured for. If the primary. database fails, the standby database is. In this. environment, both the primary and the standby. Oracle standby servers need to be fully licensed if they are ? SQL queries. Some sources say that cold standby servers.
Oracle representative or the Oracle. Store, as Oracle license policies change frequently. Suggestions for getting the best deal on Oracle. Even though Oracle licensing agreements allow Oracle corporation to. Oracle shops are honor- bound to pay for.
Don't pay for more Oracle licenses than you need. February 2. 00. 4 article over on the.
IT Manager's Journal about Oracle licensing and support. There is also this 2. Oracle. is Putting the Support Screws to Customers" with similar.
Plan your Oracle architecture to minimize Oracle license charges. With proper planning you can save a great deal in. Some suggestions for. Consolidate Oracle production environments - In.
With. Oracle server consolidation, buying large. SMP servers (i. e.
Intel Linux 1. 6- CPU. UNISYS ES7. 00. 0) and moving dozens of Oracle. CPU resources can be transparently shared. Oracle instances. Of course.
Use dedicated Oracle servers. Oracle. does not give you a discount if you run other.
Oracle. database. Keep your Oracle servers isolated and. Buy fast processors - Oracle. The super- fast Intel. Itanium. 2 6. 4- bit processors can have double the. CPU's. Maximize processor resources - You. Oracle. servers with a small average CPU consumption.
You can compute high- water- mark (HWM) CPU consumption in. Oracle 1. 0g AWR reports or with UNIX or Linux. CPU consumption. especially if your shop has service level. SLA) for fast response time. For example, four production servers with one. CPU and a HWM of 2.
CPU might comfortable fit. Let's examine the Oracle licensing literature on processor- based.
Oracle licensing for multi- core processors. Multi- core CPUs and Oracle. Processor" licenses. A dual core chip is a processor that contains. This Washington. Post article titled.
Dual- Core Chips Help Processors Share Load. June 5, 2. 00. 5 we see a good description of he. Both AMD's Athlon 6. X2 and Intel's. Pentium D use "dual- core" designs that put two.
In a July 1. 4, 2. Oracle Shifts Multicore Licensing Model, the new.
CPU chips by AMD, Sun and IBM. Following months of anticipation and some. Oracle has changed the.
The price change only effects the "multi core". Multicore processors pack more than one. The technique boosts performance of a machine. We also see that this. July 1. 5, 2. 00. For example, a 4- way, dual core processor.
And it gets even more complicated! A sharp. Register reader forwards this advisory from. Oracle's finer print: "A multicore chip with 1. The price change are only for "dual core". CPU's (The Intel Itanium. AMD 6. 4- bit processors).
Oracle Store also shows details on counting. For the purpose of counting the number of. All. fractions of a number are to be rounded up to. For example, a multicore chip with 1. The Oracle Audit. As noted, your Oracle licensing agreement. Oracle to inspect your shop for license compliance: Upon 4.
Oracle may audit. You agree to cooperate.
Oracle's audit and provide reasonable. You agree to pay within 3. If you do not pay, Oracle can end your technical. You. agree that Oracle shall not be responsible for. Oracle guru Tony Jambu has these interesting. Oracle pricing in 2.
As an. example, let? Node RAC cluster. CPUs (ignoring multi cores) per. Application Clusters($2. Active Data. Guard($5,0.
Processor)? Partitioning($1. Processor)? Application Testing($1. Processor)? Advanced.
Compression($1. 0,0. Processor)? Total. Recall($5,0. 00 per Processor)? Advanced. Security ($1. Processor)Taking the. CPU. would be US $1. For the. 2 Node RAC, that.
CPU) x. US$1. 10,0. US$8. 80,0. 00. The secondary site where your Active Data Guard. That would be. double your cost to US$1,7. Likewise, adding support of 2.
US$2,1. 47,2. 00(list). You would not pay this price, as discounting has. Using figures form Oracle?
Store, we get a discounted figure of. US$1,6. 10,4. 00.
Oracle Pricing- good News. Some good news? Oracle has.
Oracle. Database Standard Edition (SE) and Standard. Edition One (SE1) may be licensed. In the past, Oracle SE could. Sum of. Cores*Core Processor Factor < = 4 and Sum. Cores < = 8. For a cluster environment,? The sum. of single core processors < = 4 or? Sum of. clustered Cores* Core Processor Factor < = 4.
Sum of clustered Cores < = 8. For Enterprise Edition and all of its. This factor. is based on the type of CPU you are using in. For instance, if you are using a SUN. M5. 00. 0 with SPARC VII processors, the core. That means 4 Quad- Core CPUs.
You would purchase 1. EE licenses. to cover the server, and then purchase 1. If, on the other hand, you used SPARC. VII+ processors, the core factor is 0. The. same CPU setup would only require 8 licenses. For the most part, x.
CPUs are a 0. 5 core factor. A. small number of processors are 0.
Oracle, generally. System On A Chip (SOC) solutions with a very. You can find. the full core factor table here.
Special Cases. Two types of databases are exempt from. RMAN Catalogs and. Grid/Cloud Control Repositories. If one of. these repositories is the only database on a. But if the server or those.
Oracle purpose, they must be licensed. Generally speaking it can be beneficial to. See. this page under ? Infrastructure. Repository Databases?
Add- Ons and Management Packs. Let? s get one thing out of the way. Standard Edition and Standard Edition One. CAN NOT use any add- on or Management Pack. RAC for SE). That means you. Diagnostics Pack for Oracle. SE. The option does not exist.
Based on. licensing requirements, AWR/ASH/ADDM are. SE or SE1. database. However, Enterprise Edition has options. RAC, Partitioning, and. Active Data. Guard. These add- ons are extra.
For instance, if you want to use. Enterprise Edition with Partitioning and RAC. EE, Partitioning.
RAC. If Oracle is running on it, you. Misconceptions. Your standby databases need to be.
I? ve heard a lot of mixed opinions. Data. Guard and whether your standby.
The definitive. answer is YES. A Data. Guard standby is. Oracle (in MOUNT mode), which means. This goes for Development, QA, and. Testing servers as well. This one has a lot. While you. can install Oracle on your PC and use it for.
Oracle Personal Edition, you cannot. QA server without a license. If it is part of the development cycle, then. The only way you can get. One other big misconception is Oracle on. ESX environment. Oracle does not recognize soft partitioning. CPUs. If you host Oracle on a VM in an.
ESX environment, you must license the entire. ESX environment. (Note. Oracle on this). Cost Cases. So let? s take a look at some costs. The. license costs are: Enterprise Edition ? Standard Edition ?
Standard Edition One ? You can find. the full cost list on Oracle? Node RAC + Data. Guard + AWR/ASHIn this example we are going to set up a. RAC cluster with Data. Guard to a. standby 2 node RAC cluster.
We also want. AWR/ASH for diagnostics. Each server (4. total) will have 2 Intel Xeon X7. Our costs for Enterprise Edition would be.
Units Enterprise Edition ($4. Units RAC ($2. 3,0. Units Diagnostics Pack ($5,0.
Our grand total for this setup in EE. Hopefully you have a. Now, if we wanted to do the same thing in. Standard Edition, we would have to make some. Data. Guard does not work on SE. DBVisit or homegrown scripts. Also. AWR/ASH don?
SE and can? t be added. Statspack. and adapt with excellent tools like. Tanel Poder? s Snapper. In return for. these trade- offs, let? Standard Edition ($1.
The total price for two 2- node RAC. SE RAC cluster) is $1. Quite a big. savings, and definitely enough leftover to. Production, QA, and Development. Partitioning and AWRIn this example we?
Each server is a SUN M5. Quad- Core. SPARC VII processors. Enterprise Edition: 3 servers * 4 sockets per server * 4. Enterprise Edition ($4. Partitioning ($1. Diagnostics Pack ($5,0.
The grand total is $2,3. If we were able to forego Partitioning. Diagnostics Pack, the requirement in. Standard Edition would be: 3 servers * 4 sockets per server =. Standard Edition ($1.
Conclusion. Remember, a lot of this is up to you and. Make. sure you work out all the details and. It is highly recommended that you. This paragraph also servers as. DISCLAIMER: This post is based on my.
Oracle Corporation. Please. check with your sales rep on all licensing. As you can see in these prices, it is. VERY important that you buy what you need. Instead of going the whole. Active Data. Guard. Diagnostics and Tuning Packs, Partitioning.
You. can save a huge amount of money that way. Also note that there are special types of. These are special deals worked out. Oracle in order to license your entire. If you decide to. Oracle. it is important to really work with your.