How is Oracle RAC license calculated?
How is Oracle RAC license calculated?
The number of required licenses shall be determined by multiplying the total number of cores of the processor by a core processor licensing factor specified on the Oracle Processor Core Factor Table which can be accessed at http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/contracts/processor-core- factor-table-070634.
How much does Oracle RAC cost?
In general, RAC is a feature of Oracle Enterprise Edition – in fact looking at the prices on the Oracle Store as I write this it’s the joint-most-expensive option (along with Oracle OLAP) priced at $23k per core (list)…
What is the difference between Standard and Enterprise Edition in Oracle?
‘ Enterprise Edition: Processor count is based on the number of cores and a core factor table. Standard Edition: Processor count is defined by the number of CPU sockets, with each single CPU chip counting as one socket regardless of the number of cores on the chip.
What is included in Oracle Database Enterprise Edition?
Oracle Database Enterprise Edition Oracle Database Enterprise Edition provides the performance, availability, scalability, and security required for mission-critical applications such as high-volume online transaction processing (OLTP) applications, query-intensive data warehouses, and demanding Internet applications.
Is Oracle Enterprise free?
You get an Oracle Database to use in any environment, plus the ability to embed and redistribute – all completely free!
What is included in Oracle Enterprise Edition?
Is ASM required for Oracle RAC?
To use Oracle ASM with Oracle RAC, select Oracle ASM as your storage option when you create your database with the Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA). As in noncluster Oracle databases, using Oracle ASM with Oracle RAC does not require I/O tuning.
How does Oracle licensing work?
Oracle licensing is based on the foundation of Unlimited License Agreements (ULA). These are time based but unlimited use rights, which cover certain subsets of Oracle products. At the end your ULA period, you have to declare your usage of these products to Oracle, along with a count of the number of user licenses you need.
Does Oracle require a license for a development database?
Not only do you need to license each database, the number of servers that run Oracle can impact the licensing needed. For development and test environments the least expensive option is most frequently Named User Plus. NUP does have minimums per core. The Oracle Store will show you that you need a minimum of 25 NUP per core.
What is Oracle licensing?
An Oracle Unlimited License Agreement (ULA) is an arrangement in which an enterprise pays a single up-front fee to get as many licenses as they want for a specified set of Oracle products over a fixed time frame.
