Hard vs soft partitioning — soft not permitted to limit licenses; approved hard list
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- Kind
- Policy excerpt
- Excerpt
- Unless explicitly stated elsewhere in this document, soft partitioning (including features/functionality of any technologies listed as examples above) is not permitted as a means to determine or limit the number of software licenses required for any given server or cluster of servers. Hard partitioning physically segments a server, by taking a single large server and separating it into distinct smaller systems. … Oracle-approved hard partitioning technologies as listed in this section of the policy document are permitted as a means to limit the number of software licenses required for any given server or a cluster of servers. … Approved hard partitioning technologies include: Physical Domains (also known as PDomains, Dynamic Domains, or Dynamic System Domains), Solaris Zones (also known as Solaris Containers, capped Zones/Containers only), IBM’s LPAR (adds DLPAR with AIX 5.2), IBM’s Micro-Partitions (capped partitions only), vPar (capped partitions only), nPar, Integrity Virtual Machine (capped partitions only), Secure Resource Partitions (capped partitions only), Fujitsu’s PPAR. All approved hard partitioning technologies must have a capped or a maximum number of cores/processors for the given partition. IBM Power VM Live Partition Mobility is not an approved hard partitioning technology.
- Locator
- Oracle Partitioning Policy (Server/Hardware Partitioning) — Soft Partitioning / Hard Partitioning sections
- Applies to
- Oracle programs where partitioning is used to determine or limit license scope
- Aliases
- Partitioning policy; soft partitioning prohibition; approved hard partitioning
- Supports rules
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