Oracle database software can be very expensive or very cheap even free, depending on what you buyuse. Oracle enterprise edition is expensive it is the most comprehensive oracle database edition. Oracles technology software products such as its weblogic and database programs are very popular products. Unfortunately, oracles license agreements and compliance practices entail numerous pitfalls for unwary users of those products. It can only be licensed on servers, or server clusters, that have a maximum. Always refer to the applicable oracle licensing and to your individual customer agreements, and take into account your specific situation. Understanding oracle certification, support and licensing for. The following sections i will plain the way of oracle licensing calculations. The y value in a column means that the feature is available in the specified release. As a result of quests divestiture from dell, quest acquired a number of products from dell that may still contain dell branding on this website.
Selftuning discovery to find database listening on nonstandard ports database details edition, version, options managements packs support for oracle database v8 v12 supports enterprise edition, standard edition and express edition reports options and management packs installed and in use virtualization and clustering vm virt. Oracle database standard edition one includes all the facilities necessary to. I have the processor license prices, but am not sure if we need to apply core factors as well be using a single multicore processor. Jan 04, 2017 keep in mind, oracle licensing is not memory, storage, cluster, vcenter or network based, its either user based named user plus or processorsocket in case of se2 or cores in case of ee edition. Oracle database software can be very expensive or very cheap even free. License types outline the restrictions on customers usage. Oracle does not have a separate licensing policy for virtualization deployments of oracle software for on premise licensing soft partitioning technologies are not permitted as a means to determine. They are differentiated by virtualization rights and the number of users. Comparing licensing options for hyperv role on windows server 2016 and free hyperv server 2016. At the same time, windows server 2016 standard edition provides licenses for two windowsbased vms.
This table can help you understand the difference between the editions and determine whether you require. The processor metric for standard edition and standard edition one all software from the technology product family with either of these editions in the title takes into account the maximum of the number of occupied sockets if sockets are occupied. Virt1817be oracle licensing on vmware or distribution for. Oracle database standard edition one includes all the facilities necessary to build businesscritical applications. On an ec2 instance with 5 to 8 virtual cores, two processor licenses would be needed. It is either userbased named user plus or processorbased socketbased in case of standard edition 2 se2 or corebased in case of enterprise edition ee. Software license management for virtual environments and the cloud. An enduser may not even be aware that the software package contains oracle technology and should not be able to access it directly as a developer or system administrator. Saving money by understanding the oracle licensing model. Understanding oracle certification, support and licensing. Can you provide an example for oracle database licensing model on vmware.
Dec 17, 2014 oracle enterprise edition expensive software, but the most comprehensive and feature filled version of oracle database software. Oracle has 5 different editions, oracle database standard edition one. Use oracle database standard edition or oracle database enterprise edition, certified by oracle to run on azure. Software license management for virtual environments and. Oracle on vmware vsphere, vsan, vxrail and vmware cloud. Which means that you can install only one copy of the database software per physical machine. Although oracles installed andor running language has been in place since the early 2000s, in 2009 when mars and oracle entered into their licensing agreement, the present vmware virtualization technology was not in widespread use by customers with their oracle database, meaning oracles novel interpretation of installed could. Standard edition requires a minimum of 5 named user plus licenses or the total number of actual users whichever is greater. The oracle pdf of database licensing states the following. The purpose of this guide is to provide customers with information regarding certification, support and licensing of oracle on vmware vsphere. Today, virtualization and multicore cpus add a new level of complexity. When licensing oracle programs with standard edition one, standard edition 2, or standard edition in the product name, the pricing is based on the size of the instance.
Software licensing models evolving for virtualization. For example, oracle standard edition uses a persocket licensing scheme, while enterprise edition uses a percore licensing scheme. When counting oracle processor license requirements in authorized cloud environments, the oracle processor core factor table is not applicable. Keep in mind, oracle licensing is not memory, storage, cluster, vcenter or network based, its either user based named user plus or processorsocket in case of se2 or cores in case of ee edition. As noted in the table above, the datacenter edition allows an unlimited number of virtual instances whereas the standard edition permits only two. Sep 12, 2012 oracle database standard edition and standard edition one consider the number of processor sockets. As has been very well documented, oracle licensing is not based on memory, storage, cluster, vcenter or network. All you need to know about oracle database licensing with. The oracle store web site has complete msrp prices for oracle database licenses. If you think about oracle licensing, the way you license the software is dependent on the used licensed model. Oracles software license gives you a nonexclusive and limited right to use the software and as. The licensing of oracle technology products compliance.
Oracle database standard edition 2 may only be licensed on servers that have a. Virtualization archive cio priorities cloud computing cloud control cloud. May 10, 2016 software licensing challenges have existed since the very first software sale. Additionally, this difficulty increases with the number of different software editors and the related software policy you have to manage as a license manager, it. If you use standard edition or standard edition one on a twoprocessor system, you simply need two licenses. Monin carelessly running oracle, even on vmware and nutanix. Also see my notes on oracle standby database enterprise and standard edition overview of oracle store license rules. The number of required enterprise edition processor licenses is determined by the number of licensable processors, which calculated by multiplying the total number of cores of the physical processor by a core processor licensing factor specified on the oracle processor core factor table. The general feeling most of the time is that you pay too much for the use of the oracle products, and its not always sure if you are compliant, because of the complexity of the rules. It did so as it announced its tibero proof program to help customers work out their licensing and compliance. Confidently run oracle enterprise applications on azure knowing that theyre supported by oracle. Home oracle vm licensing information user manual for release 3. Dell is not affiliated with these products or services.
In case of the oracle database software, no license key is needed at all. The downloadable price list will help you familiarize yourself with oracle s product offerings and pricing. Most large enterprises have already had a taste of negotiating licensing and support policies for software deployed to virtual environments or to cloud platforms. Oracle standard edition one and standard edition 2 may only be licensed on authorized cloud environment instances up to eight amazon vcpus or eight azure vcpus. Virtualizations impact on oracle licensing and support. Includes oracle database enterprise edition software plus all oracle database options and oracle management packs that are appropriate for use in oracle database exadata cloud service.
Oracle on vmware cloud on aws unraveling the licensing. Fusion middleware licensing information contents oracle. Oracle vmware host affinity rules oracle vmware oracle. Example, for database standard edition licensing in amazon ec2 environment. Oracle database top 10 compliance issues seen blay. Licensing oracle software in the cloud computing environment. To run more than one oracle database server instance or install more than one copy of the database software, upgrade to oracle database 11g standard edition, oracle database 11g standard edition one, or oracle database 11g enterprise edition.
Hence, consolidating mixed workloads on vmware products, which oracle does not recognize as a hard partitioning of cpu resources, is not practical from an oracle licensing savings perspective. Oracle database standard edition 2 december 22nd, 2015. An embedded software license esl is a very restrictive license type available from independant software vendors isvs who embed oracle technology into their product. From a licensing perspective, this technology includes the ability to limit the number of licensable cores. May 02, 2016 before looking into the details of licensing oracle software in vmwares vcenter 6. Oracle database licensing in a vmware virtual environment part 1. How to reduce licensing costs by up to 30% with software. Oracle standard edition costs about the same as microsoft sql server. One of the most common and expensive of those pitfalls is the use of oracles products in virtualized environments and compliance with oracles. Software licensing challenges have existed since the very first software sale. The licensing of oracle technology products compliance, metrics, licensing restrictions.
The number of required standard edition 2 processor. Unfortunately, as we have explained numerous times here, oracles license agreements and compliance practices entail numerous pitfalls for unwary users of those products. For most, licensing concerns focused on deploying server applications to server virtualization infrastructures. Customers can take advantage of vmware softwares many advanced. Oracle does not recognize software virtualization with soft partitioning as a means of reducing licensing costs. Because standard edition licensing applies to a single server os instance, it can then be applied to one vm.
The licensing of products depends on the edition and version in use, and on many factors independent from oracle. Licensing oracle database std edition 2 on vmware cluster no drs. However, oracle licensing policies for vmware remain the same. Many oracle products, including the database, have license metrics that involve. The majority of oracle licensing metrics are linked to hardware, so any change in the hardware on which an. Understanding oracle database licensing policies neeraj. If oracle was installed onto a virtual machine within a. Oracle customers can use oracle standard edition which costs much less comparing to enterprise edition. When used with oracle real application clusters, oracle database standard edition 2 may only be licensed on a maximum of 2 onesocket servers. This means that organizations are responsible for tracking licensing compliance across both physical and virtual realms. Oracle standard edtion and oracle edition one will be licensed based on the quantity of sockets containing a cpu.
To reiterate, there are only 3 documents which are contractual and relevant for any oracle licensing discussion and contractual. In addition, notwithstanding any provision in your oracle license agreement to the contrary, each oracle database standard edition 2 database may use a maximum of 16 cpu threads at any time. In the early days, most software licensing models were fairly straightforward. Feb 24, 2016 tmaxsoft branded oracles virtualization licensing policy as foggy on tuesday. Oracle licensing oracle faq welcome to the oracle faq. Licensing oracle database std edition 2 on vmware cluster. Oracle on vmware cloud on aws unraveling the licensing myth. When licensing oracle programs with standard edition one, standard edition 2 or standard edition in the product name, a processor is counted equivalent to a socket. Unfortunately, oracle will offer very limited guidance on how to properly apply database licensing metrics for nonoracle virtualization software. Jul 06, 2017 although oracles installed andor running language has been in place since the early 2000s, in 2009 when mars and oracle entered into their licensing agreement, the present vmware virtualization technology was not in widespread use by customers with their oracle database, meaning oracles novel interpretation of installed could.
Tmaxsoft branded oracles virtualization licensing policy as foggy on tuesday. Software license management for virtual environments and the. Oracle argues that with vmware, through ease of migration with vmotion, a vm can actually run on all processors of all the esx hosts in a vcenter or across vcenters for vmware 6. How to understand oracles use of its partitioning policy. Oracle licensing on vmware, cloud, hyper v and other virtualised platforms 1. Sep 2019 patch number 29940043 for 64bit oracle linux, including. Before looking into the details of licensing oracle software in vmwares vcenter 6. Mar 27, 2015 oracle licensing on vmware, cloud, hyper v and other virtualised platforms 1. This document provides licensing guidelines for oracle database. Oracle licensing on vmware, cloud, hyper v and other. Oracle database standard edition and standard edition one consider the number of processor sockets. Being caught in one of those pitfalls can result in substantial, unforeseen expenses following an audit by. General licensing information concepts oracles software license gives you a nonexclusive and limited right to use the software and as such.
Oracle database licensing overview system admin blog. The features and functionality are the same for each edition. Oracle database licensing with vmware dbi services. Oracle databases on vmware frequently asked questions faq. Receive bestinclass, endtoend support from microsoft and oracle. Please note that the number of nup for the standard edition and the standard edition one is only 5. Mar 28, 2011 for example, oracle standard edition uses a persocket licensing scheme, while enterprise edition uses a percore licensing scheme. Server cal licensing is available for the sql business intelligence and standard editions. As a nonfan of vmware, oracle is pleased if you were to use oracle vm, its own virtualization software, instead. Jan 17, 2011 example, for database standard edition licensing in amazon ec2 environment.
Hi im trying to get to the bottom of the licensing for standard edition one and also standard edition. Virtualized environments are considered a soft partitioning technology. If licensing database standard edition 2 by named user plus metric, the minimums are 10 nup licenses per 8 amazon vcpus or 8 azure vcpus. Any services quest provides for these products is independent of dell. Oracle database tips by donald burlesonjuly 24, 2016. Apr 04, 2017 the following sections i will plain the way of oracle licensing calculations. Furthermore, they can use some free tools which do not require additional licensing. The standard edition can only be licensed on servers or server clusters that have a maximum capacity of 4. For example, when licensing oracle database standard edition, a processor is counted equivalent to an occupied socket. The calculation rule for the minimum nup customers have to license is 25 nup per oracle processor for the enterprise edition and 5 nup for the standard edition and the standard edition one. Foglight for virtualization standard edition download. Saving money by understanding the oracle licensing model part i oracle and licenses.
Software license optimization is a resource for it asset managers and it procurement to help them better optimize software use, reduce software. For ec2 instance containing 1 to 4 virtual cores, the number of oracle database standard edition licenses required will be 1 processor. Microsoft sql server 2016 virtualization guide product licensing page including product terms document production licensing models servercal only for standard edition requires a client access license cal for every user or device connected percore all editions 1 vm per core limit without software assurance. Standard edition one processor licensing oracle community. Despite the widespread, tenured virtualization of oracle applications, some oracle licensees still have questions regarding the impact of virtualization on oracle support and licensing. With the current trend towards reducing the number of physical servers through virtualization, costbenefit analysis exercises generally focus on cpumemorydisk utilization improvements, ower savings, server room footprint reduction, and increased management. Jan 10, 2015 when licensing oracle programs with standard edition one, standard edition 2 or standard edition in the product name, a processor is counted equivalent to a socket.
Understanding oracle licensing on vmware vsphere vsan environments. More so, windows server 2016 datacenter edition includes licenses for an unlimited number of windowsbased vms. Mar 26, 2018 understanding oracle licensing on vmware vsphere vsan environments. News, tips, partners, and perspectives on oracles virtualization offerings, including oracle vm, virtualbox, secure global desktop. The licensing policies for exacs also apply to oracle database exadata cloud at customer. Oracle technology software licensing virtualized environments virtualized environments are considered a soft partitioning technology. As of august 2005, oracle has two pricing models, named user plus and processor. Oracle enterprise edition expensive software, but the most comprehensive and feature filled version of oracle database software.