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Enterprise Manager Plugin for Oracle on VMware License Optimization

Is confusion, or lack of knowledge around Oracle licensing policies and fees on VMware preventing your enterprise from leveraging the technical and business benefits of Oracle on VMware to the fullest?

Blue Medora is seeking interested Beta participants to help us validate the features and functionality of a new Oracle Enterprise Manager (Oracle EM) Plugin, the Blue Medora Oracle Enterprise Manager (12c) Plugin for Oracle on VMware License Optimization.

The plugin provides an Oracle-based solution to the problem of managing Oracle workloads on VMware mixed Cluster environments where virtual machine mobility dramatically increases the risk of Oracle license over deployment and overspending.

The primary functionality provided by the plugin includes:

  • Reduce the risk of over deploying Oracle licenses within VMware Clusters
  • Mapping of virtualized Oracle workloads to the physical VMware ESX hosts
  • Detection, alerting, and remediation recommendations for vMotion and DRS Host Affinity related configuration issues
  • Recommendations for improved license optimization of VMware virtualized Oracle workloads

if you are interested in seeing more detailed information about the EM12c Plugin for Oracle on VMware License Optimization, and/or you would like to participate in our beta program for this release, please view the page and beta request form by clicking this link:

http://www.bluemedora.com/em12c-plugin-oracle-vmware-licensing-optimization-0

We greatly appreciate your input on this matter, so even if you do not want to be a beta participant, please consider sharing your thoughts on whether this set of capabilities would provide value to you and your enterprise.  We are always interested in what customers think; especially when it comes to extending the reach of Enterprise Manager!

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Simon_H
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Interesting, but this does rather assume that Oracle LMS will recognise licence partitioning beneath the VMware cluster level - is there any documentation to support this?

Of course Oracle and DRS host affinity rules (i.e. allowed or not) got a lot of publicity last year following this interview: http://www.licenseconsulting.eu/2012/08/29/vmworld-richard-garsthagen-oracle-on-licensing-vmware-vir...

And whether Oracle wlll extend something like Oracle Trusted Partitions (http://www.veriton.co.uk/roller/fmw/entry/oracle_trusted_partitions_dynamic_and), to apply to any hardware/hypervisor remains to be seen...

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BlueMedora
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Simon:

As part of the process of releasing the Blue Medora Oracle EM Plugin for VMware we’ve had discussions with over 100 customers who, despite Oracle’s ambiguity re: VMware support and licensing, are moving ahead and deploying Oracle on VMware. 

Our aim with this new Oracle EM-based plugin is to simply provide a set of tooling that enables customers to more safely deploy their Oracle virtual machines into vSphere Cluster and sub Clusters by monitoring VMware virtual machines containing Oracle and ESX configuration and alerting if any Oracle workload has traveled to a non-licensed ESX host OR if warning that the risk exists that the Oracle workload may travel to a non-licensed ESX host in the future via a “non-locked down configuration”.  Host affinity is one of those configuration values monitored for risk.

Finally, we are going to provide an Oracle-EM based audit log of virtual machine mobility so that administrators can look back a day, week, month, year, etc and understand which ESX hypervisors (licensed or unlicensed) a particular virtual machines running Oracle has existed on.

grvmtech
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Blue Medora is still seeking Beta Participants for the Blue Medora's 'Oracle on VMware Licensing' plugin for Oracle Enterprise Manager.  Anybody interested can sign up here.

A video overview of the latest beta build can be found here.

Thanks, Blue Medora Beta Team

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