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Operating Systems Solaris Oracle DBA licensing on Solaris 11 LDOMS Post 303009383 by am115998 on Wednesday 13th of December 2017 07:35:48 PM

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SPARC T systems run a hypervisor, so even the primary partition is virtualised!
Yes, named user plus works in a 'virtual' environment.
The caveats here are:

Oracle only deal in whole integer units w.r.t. cores. If you use a 4 vCPU LDom (i.e. 0.5 of a SPARC T core) you still use 1 core licence on that system
The users count has a minimum like er.. 20 (I think) <ouch!>

Acceptable technologies to 'hard' partition a Solaris 'instance' - according to Oracle - also include zones with either a dedicated-cpu or capped-cpu setting.
The dedicated-cpu setting apparently fixes the CPUs that will run RDBMS threads.

Ironically the capped-cpu setting caps concurrent threads. It allows Oracle RDBMS to run on any CPU core it can see, capping the concurrency.
The irony of this setting is that in a VMware cluster (not ESX server but whole cluster of them) Oracle claim that there is a potential for RDBMS threads to run on any CPU in the cluster and thus they total the CPUs in the cluster to calculate the licence fee.
Hmmm...

Note that the OS hardware and state are recorded in an audit table within an Oracle RDBMS. Oracle are happy to query that and back charge if you are tardy in getting your resource utilisation under control. Then there are licenced features... but you didn't ask about those in this post! Smilie

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install-solaris(1M)													       install-solaris(1M)

NAME

       install-solaris - install the Solaris operating system

SYNOPSIS

       install-solaris

       install-solaris	invokes  the  Solaris  Install	program. Depending on graphical capability and available memory at the time of invocation,
       install-solaris invokes either a text-based installer or a graphical installer.

       The following minimum requirements for physical memory dictate which features are available during installation:

       For SPARC machines:

       128 MB

	   Minimum physical memory for all installation types

       128 MB

	   Minimum physical memory required for windowing system

       384 MB

	   Minimum physical memory required for graphical-based installation

       For x86 machines:

       256 MB

	   Minimum physical memory for all installation types

       256 MB

	   Minimum physical memory required for windowing system

       512 MB

	   Minimum physical memory required for graphical-based installation

       In some cases, even if the minimum physical memory is present, available virtual memory after system startup can limit the number  of  fea-
       tures available.

       install-solaris	exists	only  on  the Solaris installation media (CD or DVD) and should be invoked only from there. Refer to the  for more
       details.

       install-solaris allows installation of the operating system onto any standalone system. install-solaris loads the software available on the
       installation media. Refer to the  for disk space requirements.

       Refer to the  for more information on the various menus and selections.

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcdrom  (Solaris instal-  |
       |			     |lation media)		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       pkginfo(1), install(1M), pkgadd(1M), attributes(5)

       It is advisable to exit install-solaris by means of the exit options in the install-solaris menus.

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