My understanding, noting that everyone has to do there own negotiating with Oracle, is they charge for all real cores Oracle can run on. 5 IFL'S = 5 cores. Cores in reserve should not matter.
How you set up your lpar's really depends on goals. The Oracle z Linux SIG is still being worked on for April in DC this year (so I heard). That is of course a really great place to talk to Oracle and peers about stuff like this. Good luck, Kurt On Feb 13, 2017 5:02 AM, "Guest, Darren" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > My understanding is that having 5 IFLs on each LPAR would mean you'd have > to license all 10 IFLs on the box; the total of 20 logical IFLs would be > dispatched on all 10 physical IFLs. > > I believe that if your total logical IFLs is 5 or less then you would be > OK; only 5 physical IFLs worth could be running at any one time. Your > second example should also be OK for the same reason. > > This is purely my own personal understanding and shouldn't be relied upon > in any arguments with Oracle! > > > Cheers, > > Darren > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > mohd rizal > Sent: 13 February 2017 3:22 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: LinuxOne and Oracle License > > Hi All, > > We just bought LinuxOne machine purposely to run the Oracle database. This > machine come with 10 IFLs. 4 LPARs will be created and z/VM ver 6.4 and > SUSE Linux will run on top of it. > > I have some issue regarding the Oracle license. Company only bought 5 > oracle license for this year and will buy the remaining 5 license next year. > > In the HMC, can we give 5 IFL to all LPAR:- > LPAR1 = 5 IFL > LPAR2 = 5 IFL > LPAR3 = 5 IFL > LPAR4 = 5 IFL > > or we should setup like this;- > LPAR1 = 2 IFL > LPAR2 = 1 IFL > LPAR3 = 1 IFL > LPAR4 = 1 IFL > > I don't want to have any issue with the auditor team later on. Please give > some advice... > > Thanks in advance > -Mohd- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > Information in this e-mail and any attachments is confidential, and may > not be copied or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor disclosed to > any third party without our permission. There is no intention to create any > legally binding contract or other binding commitment through the use of > this electronic communication unless it is issued in accordance with the > Experian Limited standard terms and conditions of purchase or other express > written agreement between Experian Limited and the recipient. Although > Experian has taken reasonable steps to ensure that this communication and > any attachments are free from computer viruses, you are advised to take > your own steps to ensure that they are actually virus free. > > Experian Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct > Authority. > Companies Act information: Registered name: Experian Limited. Registered > office: The Sir John Peace Building, Experian Way, NG2 Business Park, > Nottingham, NG80 1ZZ, United Kingdom. Place of registration: England and > Wales. Registered number: 653331. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
