This section describes capacity-on-demand licensing for Oracle Database Appliance X3-2.
Oracle Database Appliance X3-2 consists of two servers. Each server has 16 CPU cores. By default, Oracle Database Appliance ships with all cores enabled on both servers:
16 CPU cores enabled on each of the two servers
32 enabled CPU cores
Rules and Restrictions for Setting CPU Core Count on Oracle Database Appliance X3-2 Bare Metal Deployments
Review the following rules and restrictions before changing the CPU core count:
If you are running Oracle Appliance Manager 2.8 or lower, then you can change the CPU core count to 4, 8, 12, or 16 for each server.
You can change the CPU core count to 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14,or 16 for each server if you are running Oracle Appliance Manager 2.10 or higher.
If you change the CPU core count, then you can subsequently only increase the CPU core count.
For example, if you change the CPU core count to 8, then you can subsequently change the CPU core count to 12 or 16. If you later change the CPU core count to 12, then you can subsequently change the CPU core count to 16.
If your desired CPU core count is 16 for each server, then use the default configuration. Do not follow the procedure described in "Setting the CPU Core Count on Oracle Database Appliance X3-2 Bare Metal Deployments" to set the CPU core count to 16. Using the default configuration enables you to change the CPU core count at a later time to a number less than 16.
Note:
If you mistakenly followed the procedure to set your CPU core count to 16, thereby preventing you from subsequently increasing your CPU core count, and the error is caught immediately, then contact Oracle Support to remedy the situation.