1. Technology Strategy Update
Presenter: Zadrik Welthagen
Date: 11 March 2014

2. Virtualization How Adapt IT has used Oracle VM/VMbox Pricing
Oracle Licensing Concepts

3. Oracle VM / VM BOX
Hosting Environment

4. Pricing Oracle VM Box (1 US$ = R10):
Licensing per socket (total server capacity – No Core factor)
Licensing = R10 000
Annual Support = 22% of Licensing

5. Licence – Partitioning (VM)
Full Use
Soft partitioning requires the sum of an Oracle VM server’s CPU cores to be licensed.
Requirements:
Each Oracle VM server running a guest with an Oracle technology product must be licensed.
A manual placement policy to license a subset of pool member servers. For example, in a 10 server pool, you could license 2 of the 10 pool members
This is a flexible way of managing data processing resources since the CPU capacity can be changed fairly easily, as additional resource is needed.
Examples of such partitioning type include:
Solaris 9 Resource Containers, AIX Workload Manager, HP Process Resource Manager, Affinity Management, Oracle VM, VMware etc.

6. Licence – Partitioning (VM)
Hard partitioning allows a customer to license a subset of a server’s CPUs.
Requirements:
All hard partitioned guests must pin the virtual CPUs to the Oracle VM server’s physical CPU cores in the guest’s vm.cfg file.
All hard partitioned guests must have an Oracle VM Manager manual placement policy to confine the guests to the pinned Oracle VM server(s).
All hard partitioned guests “cannot” use Live Migration.
Oracle VM can also be used as hard partitioning technology only as described in the following document:
Full Use

7. Disclaimer
The information, comments and material presented in this presentation are provided for information purposes only. The presentation is not addressing all possible technical or business aspects and does not claim to be complete or exhaustive.
Adapt IT reserves the right to change its business or product development plans as circumstances dictate.
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