Nikolay Piskun wrote:
Node locking is bad for service availability.
I am totally agree with you and FYI: Totalview is not license to node,
it has a floating licenses and only one type of licenses is restricted
by the size of the machine. Which is reasonable, I think. If you are in
a disaster recovery situation, you are still not entitle to use a
software, that you are not purchased ;-) .
I agree that just because you are in DR doesn't mean you should use more
than you paid for.
However it is often the case that on the DR site the physical hardware
is quite different to the normal running site. Sometimes that might be
machines with different (ie more) numbers of cores/threads/sockets or
they might just be different types of machines but the same "overall"
performance.
Oracle "gets it" now and trusts people running on Solaris to use
"Solaris Containers"[1] to mange this without software enforcement.
It is upto you to make choices for your companies products but my advice
is to never enforce licensing in software it hurts customers at their
time of most need and your companies software can mean the difference
between their demise or survival in a DR situation.
[1] Combination of processor sets and zones for this context.
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Darren J Moffat
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