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&quot;Due to Licensing issues&quot;<br />
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What product do you have licensing issues with? Usually licenses are limited by sockets, not the number of cores or threads...<br />
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So I doubt turning off hyper-threading will make any difference, even if it were possible to be disabled in the BIOS, which is very unlikely. Only old P-IV socket 478 PC's sometimes had the possibility to enable hyperthreading.
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"Due to Licensing issues"

What product do you have licensing issues with? Usually licenses are limited by sockets, not the number of cores or threads...

So I doubt turning off hyper-threading will make any difference, even if it were possible to be disabled in the BIOS, which is very unlikely. Only old P-IV socket 478 PC's sometimes had the possibility to enable hyperthreading.

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Oracle requires licensing based on all CPU's present physical and virtual.
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Oracle requires licensing based on all CPU's present physical and virtual.

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From what I've found online, Oracle's licensing is based on cores and processor definition, not hyperthreading. If I were you I'd double check with Oracle.
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From what I've found online, Oracle's licensing is based on cores and processor definition, not hyperthreading. If I were you I'd double check with Oracle.

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I need to disable hyper-threading due to licensing issues but, I can't find the setting in the BIOS that would allow me to disable it. Does anyone know where I can find the setting on a Dell PowerEdge R720?
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I need to disable hyper-threading due to licensing issues but, I can't find the setting in the BIOS that would allow me to disable it. Does anyone know where I can find the setting on a Dell PowerEdge R720?

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