Capacity-On-Demand Licensing for Oracle Database Appliance X6-2-HA

Review capacity-on-demand licensing for Oracle Database Appliance X6-2-HA.

Oracle Database Appliance X6-2-HA consists of two servers. Each server has 20 CPU cores. By default, Oracle Database Appliance ships with all cores enabled on both servers:

• 20 CPU cores enabled on each of the two servers

• 40 enabled CPU cores

Rules and Restrictions for Setting CPU Core Count on Oracle Database Appliance X6-2-HA

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 for each server.

• 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 12, then you can subsequently change the CPU core count to 16, or 20. If you later change the CPU core count to 16, then you can subsequently change the CPU core count to 20.

• If you want 20 CPU cores for each server, then use the default configuration. There is no need to set the CPU core count to 40.

Note:

If you mistakenly followed the procedure to set your CPU core count to 40, thereby preventing you from subsequently increasing your CPU core count, and the error is caught immediately, then contact Oracle Support.