I'm guessing I'm not going to like the answer to the question but here goes.
I'm looking at virtualising a server that has an Oracle database as the backend. This server has two single cores. Our VMware ESX environment has 6 hosts each with 2 x dual cores..
Looking at the Oracle license blurb as well as various posts, Oracle says I'll need to license it for the full 24 cores, but at 50%. That still leaves licensing for 12 CPUs versus 2.
I've looked at the Named User, but that still seems to insist that there's an underlying processor constraint, and taking the previous blurb, that would again mean I have to take into account all of the available cores.
So how have people handled virtualising oracle databases from a license perspective, especially where the number of cores in the ESX infrastructure is considerably more than the original server?
TIA Rob