If you want to understand Oracle licensing then getting a firm grasp of the basics is the obvious place to start. This article provides an overview of Oracle licensing to help build your knowledge and understanding in the following three core areas:. If you prefer a PDF copy of this article for future reference, you can download a copy via the button below.
Alternatively, for help with your Oracle licensing challenges, why not speak to one of our experts today? As you may expect, this is a limited license that gives you the right to develop applications using licensable Oracle products, but not to deploy them. For example, only one person may use the downloaded products for development, and that work must be performed on only one server. Products downloaded from the OTN may not be used for any other activity, internal data processing, or commercial or production use.
All the Oracle products you use in your Test environment are subject to the same licensing requirements as Production environments. Essentially, this means you must have sufficient licenses under the OLSA or another valid Oracle licensing agreement. All Oracle products used in your Production environment must be licensed, either through the OLSA or some other type of Oracle licensing agreement.
To gain full visibility of your Oracle application, database and middleware deployments in these three environments, you need a solution like Certero for Oracle , which will help you find, identify and understand usage of your Oracle software. Oracle support contracts can be provided under perpetual or subscription licenses. If you have perpetual licenses, your support will be charged separately per year.
For some Oracle products, your support agreement may not give you the rights to use them so you should always check your terms and conditions.
Oracle support agreements add an additional layer of complexity to understanding your Oracle licensing. This is largely due to historically agreed terms and conditions still being valid and active today.
You should not rely on your invoices to understand what your licenses entitle you to use, as support invoices do not convey all the complexities you need to understand.
For subscription licensing, support is provided as standard. With Certero for Oracle you can store your Oracle support contracts and build a calendar of all your license renewals. 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.
You are then granted the licenses for the products covered by the ULA. Where your users cannot be counted or verified, Oracle uses processor licensing. An example of when this might occur is web applications. These are hosted in environments where counting your user licenses is difficult. To calculate your licenses you can multiply the total number of cores of the processors used, by a core processor licensing factor.
If you are licensing your Oracle products under Standard Edition One or Standard Edition, a processor is defined as equivalent to a socket.
However, if you have multi-chip modules, each chip is defined as equivalent to a socket. Minimums are per processor and calculated after the number of processors requiring licenses has been determined. Processor licensing is not offered if you are using Personal Edition Oracle products. All processors contained within all physical servers in the cluster must be licensed for Oracle if any virtual machine in the cluster carries an Oracle database instance.
VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler DRS VM-Host affinity rules set constraints that restrict placement of a group of virtual machines within a group of hosts in a cluster: virtual machines are limited to run on specific hosts within the cluster and cannot be moved by VMotion to other hosts.
There have been many discussions, blogs and debates on whether or not DRS is a partition technology that is recognized by Oracle. When DRS is used, should the full cluster be licensed for Oracle or only the hosts available to virtual machines supporting Oracle through the DRS host affinity rules? Many Oracle licensing consultants believe the answer to this question is the latter—only license the subset of hosts available via host affinity rules.
Without a public statement from Oracle, the recommendation is to validate the use of these technologies and their impact on Oracle licensing with an Oracle Sales representative or a member of the Oracle License Management Services LMS team.
The same recommendation applies to the vSphere CPU affinity feature that restricts the assignment of virtual machines to the available processors in single server multiprocessor systems.
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Database Migration Planner, introduced in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c, provides a data-driven and systematic approach to consolidation by eliminating guess work and human errors.
On the database target home page, select the Administration menu, then select Database Migration Planner. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this page are licensed as part of the Database Migration Planner. Database Migration Workbench, introduced in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Release 4, is a single workbench that integrates all needs for migration sizing and performance comparison.
All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this page are licensed as part of the Database Migration Workbench. Table lists Oracle management packs, the Oracle Database offerings for which each pack is available, and the features that are included with each pack.
You must be licensed for a management pack in order to use any of its features. Database-as-a-Service comprising self-service database provisioning on physical or virtual infrastructure.
Support shared server, shared cluster, and shared database Schema-as-a-Service deployment models. Virtual assembly provisioning. For example, if there is an assembly topology of three VMs two WebLogic Server-managed servers and one database , you will need both packs to cover the respective tiers. Metering and chargeback based on fixed cost, utilization metrics and configuration parameters of the database.
Starting on the Enterprise Summary home page, click the Enterprise menu. Cloud , then Infrastructure Home. Cloud , then Infrastructure Request Dashboard.
Cloud , then Infrastructure Policies. Cloud , then Middleware and Database Home. Cloud , then Middleware and Database Request Dashboard.
Cloud , then Self Service Portal. Cloud , then Service Instances. Provisioning and Patching , then Database Provisioning. Starting on the Enterprise Summary home page, click the Setup menu. Provisioning and Patching , then Storage Registration. On the Multitenant container database's home page, from the Oracle Database menu, select Provisioning , then Provision Pluggable Database.
These verbs operate on a database pool. The following objects within the repository schema are licensed under Oracle Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Database:. Also, any report created using the "create-like" feature of BI publisher referring the preceding reports, falls under this license.
If you want to use the Oracle Database Gateways listed above not solely for the purposes of Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack, then you must purchase full-use licenses for the Oracle Database Gateways. Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting functionality cannot be executed directly against the non-Oracle database. Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack must be licensed only for the source database server, i.
There is no requirement to license the pack for the staging database server on which masking and subsetting operations are executed, or for copies made of the masked database. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on these Oracle Enterprise Manager menus are licensed as part of the Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting Pack. Starting on the Enterprise Summary home page, click the Enterprise menu, then Quality Management , then select:.
From the Oracle database or cluster database target home page, click the Security menu, then select:. Data Masking Definitions. With the purchase of Oracle Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database, you also are entitled to the features described in the following sections.
The init. The Licensed Links, features, and functions listed in the following sections apply only to the Oracle Database target and the associated host an Oracle Database is deployed on. For management on non-Oracle Database targets, you must purchase the appropriate management pack. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this menu are licensed as part of Oracle Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database.
From the Oracle database or cluster database target home page, click the Oracle Database menu, then Provisioning. From the Oracle cluster database target home page, click the Oracle Database menu, then Provisioning. From the database home page, click on Oracle Database , Configuration. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this menu, excluding Topology, are licensed as part of Oracle Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database.
All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this page are licensed as part of Oracle Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database. When viewing comparison results differences as described in the Configuration Compare feature, select the configuration specification in the tree on the left.
Select Enable File Synchronization. From the database home page, click on Schema , Change Management. All features, unctions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this menu are licensed as part of Oracle Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database. From the Enterprise Manager home page, click the Enterprise menu and Compliance. All reports in each of these sections are licensed as part of this pack.
The following compliance views within the repository schema are licensed under Oracle Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database:. The following provisioning and patching views within the repository schema are licensed under Oracle Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database:. The following patching views within the repository schema are licensed under Oracle Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database:. The following configuration views within the repository schema are licensed under Oracle Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database:.
The following Oracle home patching views within the repository schema are licensed under Oracle Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database:. The following security views within the repository schema are licensed under Oracle Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database:. The following client configuration views within the repository schema are licensed under Oracle Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database:.
Supporting functionality to perform per stream bottleneck detection and per component top wait event analysis. In order to use the features listed above, you must purchase licenses for Oracle Diagnostics Pack. This parameter can be set to one of three values:. To determine which links in Enterprise Manager are part of Oracle Diagnostics Pack, click the Setup link on the top right-hand part of the Enterprise Manager Home page. When you click the Setup link, the navigation bar contains the Management Pack Access link.
Click this link. This will take you to the Management Pack Access page, which allows you to grant and remove access from all the management packs. This procedure disables all the links and tabs associated with Oracle Diagnostics Pack in Enterprise Manager. All the disabled links and tabs are part of Oracle Diagnostics Pack and therefore require a pack license.
Oracle Diagnostics Pack features can also be accessed by way of database server APIs and command-line interfaces:. They can be used without the Oracle Diagnostics Pack license. This procedure disables all the links and tabs associated with Oracle Tuning Pack in Enterprise Manager. All the disabled links and tabs are part of Oracle Tuning Pack and therefore require a pack license.
Oracle Tuning Pack features can also be accessed by way of database server APIs and command-line interfaces:. This script lists, in two distinct sections:. If you are not a My Oracle Support registered user, then click Register and follow the registration instructions. You can manually run the script on an individual database or use Oracle Enterprise Manager Job System to automatically run the script on multiple databases.
The information obtained from this script will provide you an overview of the licensable Oracle Database options and Oracle management packs that were identified as used by your organization. This is to be used for informational purposes only and this does not represent your license entitlement or requirement. The far sync instance can be installed and used on a server different from the server where the Oracle Database is installed and used. Processor Must license all physical CPUs.
One license entitles to one physical CPU. May be licensed only on servers that have a maximum capacity of 4 CPU sockets. When used with Oracle Real Application Clusters, may be licensed only on a single cluster of servers supporting up to a total maximum capacity of 4 CPU sockets.
May be licensed only on servers that have a maximum capacity of 2 CPU sockets. Express Edition Free, but usage is restricted. All of the options and management packs can be purchased.
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