As a general rule, from what I have seen helping out with lots of Oracle consolidations/working closely with our Oracle on z Alliance team (who is getting notice of this thread)... if Oracle can run on a IFL, you get charged for Oracle having access to that IFL. e.g. If your LPAR has access to a shared pool of IFL's, your going to be charged for all the IFL's in the pool.
Depending on what else you are running, LPAR design options do of course exist that can help balance value to function. - Defining your options really involves a workshop/planning session. Worth noting, the special interest group for Oracle on z is meeting at the end of April in NY. - Its a great place to talk to Oracle reps involved with z and other customers running it as well: http://www.oraclezsig.org/ Hopefully this info is helpful, Kurt Acker IBM Smarter Planet, Smarter Data Centers Virtualization and Enterprise System Management Technologies From: "Levy, Alan" <al...@doitt.nyc.gov> To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU, Date: 02/25/2015 10:32 AM Subject: oracle licensing Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> 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/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
