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The VM that the Oracle DB is running on can only see the CPU's that VMWare has given to that VM. The VM wont even see the total number of CPUs on the host.
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The VM that the Oracle DB is running on can only see the CPU's that VMWare has given to that VM. The VM wont even see the total number of CPUs on the host.

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Mark, I know that VMWARE can do that, but will LMS accept that has HARD PARTITIONING? &nbsp;That is what worries me. &nbsp;We switched to OVM for Oracle to avoid licensing cost of VMWARE (per Oracle), but have found that OVM is a POS!
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Mark, I know that VMWARE can do that, but will LMS accept that has HARD PARTITIONING?  That is what worries me.  We switched to OVM for Oracle to avoid licensing cost of VMWARE (per Oracle), but have found that OVM is a POS!

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Sorry, not an Oracle head so wouldn't be able to advise.
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Sorry, not an Oracle head so wouldn't be able to advise.

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I only wish it included LMS certification!!
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I only wish it included LMS certification!!

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How do I be sure that LMS will not force me to license every CPU in the VMWARE cluster whether are not they are assigned to a VM?
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How do I be sure that LMS will not force me to license every CPU in the VMWARE cluster whether are not they are assigned to a VM?

Oracle licensing on VMWARE

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.