Can VMWare be made to use a single core or processor to meet Oracle licensing?

[johnnyIsVirtual]

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.

[weinstein5]

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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[azn2kew]

Here is another good trick you can use for multiple cores from Duncan

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Stefan Nguyen

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iGeek Systems Inc.

VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant

[J1mbo]

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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