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Operating Systems Solaris Reducing Cores in T5240 server for meeting Oracle Core Licences Post 302848691 by os2mac on Thursday 29th of August 2013 08:47:49 PM

08-29-2013

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you need to configure Guest LDOMS and provide a portion of the vcpu resources to the guest

LDOMs and VM for Sparc are intended to allow you to partition the physical resources of the host into smaller manageable portions to allow for minimizing exposure for licensing purposes.

Oracle licenses are based on the number of cores available to the software for processing. Configuring a Guest LDOM and then only allow Xcores to be accessed by that LDOM will prevent you from having to license the whole server for use if you only need a smaller number of cores for processing that workload.

You've stated that your Sparc T5240 is configured with 4 cores (2 x cpu, 2 cores per cpu, 8 threads per core). So assuming you would only want to license 1/2 of those resources you need to build a Guest LDOM, assign it 16 VCPU and that will limit the resources to 1/2 of the available physical resources.

To do this you will need to create virtual infrastructure for the new LDOM (virtual networking, virtual disk servers, virtual disks,) and create the VM itself. This will require you to partition your disks and install an additional copy of the OS. I would recommend you use Solaris 11 if you can as the VM updates for that OS allow for a more robust config.

Hope this helps.

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NAME

	 Jifty::DBI::Handle::Oracle - An oracle specific Handle object

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

       This module provides a subclass of Jifty::DBI::Handle that compensates for some of the idiosyncrasies of Oracle.

METHODS

   connect PARAMHASH: Driver, Database, Host, User, Password
       Takes a paramhash and connects to your DBI datasource.

   database_version
       Returns value of ORA_OCI constant, see "Constants" in DBD::Oracle.

   insert
       Takes a table name as the first argument and assumes that the rest of the arguments are an array of key-value pairs to be inserted.

   build_dsn PARAMHASH
       Takes a bunch of parameters:

       Required: Driver, Database or Host/SID, Optional: Port and RequireSSL

       Builds a dsn suitable for an Oracle DBI connection

   blob_params column_NAME column_type
       Returns a hash ref for the bind_param call to identify BLOB types used by the current database for a particular column type.  The current
       Oracle implementation only supports ORA_CLOB types(112).

   apply_limits STATEMENTREF ROWS_PER_PAGE FIRST_ROW
       takes an SQL SELECT statement and massages it to return ROWS_PER_PAGE starting with FIRST_ROW;

   distinct_query STATEMENTREF
       takes an incomplete SQL SELECT statement and massages it to return a DISTINCT result set.

AUTHOR

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SEE ALSO

       Jifty::DBI, Jifty::DBI::Handle, DBD::Oracle

perl v5.14.2							    2011-04-26					   Jifty::DBI::Handle::Oracle(3pm)