This chapter provides an overview of the licensing process for each hardware platform.
When you add your hardware Support Identifier (SI) for Oracle Database Appliance to your My Oracle Support account, you establish a license for all the cores on your system. The platform can be deployed with bare metal or virtualization. Both platforms types offer capacity-on-demand licensing. With bare-metal, you disable cores that will not be used by the Oracle Database by adding your hardware Support Identifier (SI) for Oracle Database Appliance to your My Oracle Support account and creating a key. If you deploy Oracle Database Appliance Virtualized Platform, then all the cores will be enabled, but capacity-on-demand licensing is established by assigning specific cores to the virtual machine where you run Oracle Database and related software (ODA_BASE).
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Chapter two explains how to obtain a licensing key and record your initial license requirements with My Oracle Support. It also explains how to change the licensed core count, if required, at a later time.
Note that chapter two is only appropriate for bare metal installations where your license covers the cores that you are using for Oracle Database.
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Chapter three contains information about the third-party products that are included with Oracle Database Appliance.
“Task 3: Install the ODA_BASE Template” Chapter 4 of Oracle Database Appliance Getting Started Guide for an example of setting the initial licensed core count on Oracle Database Appliance Virtualized Platform.