Oct 1
Oracle 11gR2 Instance Caging and Licensing on VMware
As per Oracle® 11gR2 Database New Features Guide
“Instance Caging allows the DBA to limit the CPU usage of an Oracle instance by setting the CPU_COUNT initialization parameter and enabling CPU resource management. With Instance Caging, users can partition CPU resources among multiple instances running on a server to ensure predictable performance.”
For those of us who do not have unlimited Oracle Licensing, this would be a nice way for Oracle to consider CPU licensing of the database on VMware. The CPU license could apply to only those used by Oracle as opposed to those on the ESX host.
I am not holding my breath, as Oracle is more keen to promote its VM solution.
