My limited experience is that Oracle is licensed per physical CPU, no matter the number of virtual servers.
Harley -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Levy, Alan Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 9:31 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: oracle licensing We are in the process of negotiating Oracle licenses. We currently have 2 cecs and 4 lpars (running 18 shared IFLs in total). We currently have 2 oracle servers in production (both on the same lpar). We have been told that we need to have at least one oracle server on each lpar (in other words- 3 dummy servers). I would like to know how the licensing works in other organizations. Any comments ? Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ *************************************************************************** The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please resend this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system. Thank You. **************************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/