Can VMWare in a quad core be made to use two of those cores? Oracle licensing, I believe, will allow two cores to be counted as one for their license of "one" processor. I could use the other two cores for something else with another VMWare instance. Thanks.
yes you fix the affinity of virtual CPU to a physical core so that the vCPUs run only on those cores -
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The short answer is no, Oracle specifically define vmware as 'soft-partitioning' and goes on to note, "soft partitioning is not permitted as a means to determine or limit the number of software licenses required for any given server".
However I've just written about this in this thread, which might help you.
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