vPostgres 50 VM limit on vCenter Server Appliance

[elgreco81]

Hi,

Anyone knows if the 5 hosts/50 VM limit is going to disapear for VCSA embedded vPostgres? Or at least is in some roadmap?

No need to tell that it would be awesome!!! Right know I'm struggling to understand Oracle per user licensing model...I'm driving nuts with ambiguous docs and contradictory responses!!!

Thanks!

elgreco81

[spravtek]

Hi elgreco ...

I have no idea if the limit is going to disappear, I doubt it ...

However, for Oracle licensing I usually check this site for the explanation:http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/Oracle_licensing

Maybe you found it also, just thought I share it, it made Oracle licensing a bit more clear to me

Message was edited by: spravtek for a spelling mistake

[elgreco81]

Hi spravtek!

Yes I saw that faq, but I'm still confused by some oracle definitions.

I mean, processor licensing is quite easy (at least for SE and SE-1). Per user license...weeeell it will depend what you consider a user of the database. I mean, a VM, is a "user" in terms of licensing for the oracle database? From my point of view, it is not (the VM doesn't even know that there's a database for vmware or update manager, so it doesn't read or write anything to it). From the point of view of my "distri", it is. From the point of view of oracle...i've got an ambiguous answer...

Hopefully VMware will support more than 50 VMs for the embedded vPostgres!!! RHEV for instance uses postgres as the embedded database, so technicaly, vpostgres should also work, right? (I'm no dba, just guessing here).

Regards,

elgreco81

[spravtek]

Mostly I go for the Oracle Standard Edition One ... 2 Processors is ample for the most environments, and the bigger environments usually have enough existing databases where the dba will happilly give a slice

That way the customer will never have to worry about the amount of users that can access the DB or anything, just in case they want to use the DB for something else.