This section explains capacity-on-demand licensing for Oracle Database Appliance X6-2M.
Oracle Database Appliance X6-2M is a single server consisting of 20 cores. By default, Oracle Database Appliance ships with all cores enabled. Capacity-on-demand is only applicable to Oracle Database Enterprise Edition software.
The number of active cores can be reduced before or after deployment. The number of active cores can be increased when additional capacity is needed. This is known as capacity-on-demand. Additional cores are increased in 2-core increments.
Note:
The server must be restarted after enabling additional cores.Rules and Restrictions for Setting CPU Core Count on Oracle Database Appliance X6-2M Bare Metal Deployments
Review the following rules and restrictions before changing the CPU core count:
You can change the CPU core count to a value that is a multiple of two between 2 and 20.
If you change the CPU core count, then you can subsequently only increase the CPU core count.
You should only change the CPU core count if you need less than 20 cores.
Note:
If you mistakenly followed the procedure to set your CPU core count to 20, thereby preventing you from subsequently increasing your CPU core count, then contact Oracle Support.To change the CPU core count, see Setting the CPU Core Count on Oracle Database Appliance X6-2S and X6–2M.