Manage Licenses on a DB System
You can manage your licenses on the bare metal and virtual machine DB systems.
Manage Your BYOL Database Licenses On Your Bare Metal DB System
If you want to control the number of database licenses that you run at any given time on a bare metal system, you can scale up or down the number of OCPUs on the instance. These additional licenses are metered separately.
- Open the navigation menu. Click Oracle Database, then click Bare Metal, VM, and Exadata.
- Choose your Compartment.
A list of database systems is displayed.
- In the list of DB systems, find the system you want to scale and click its highlighted name.
The system details are displayed.
- Click Scale CPU Cores, and then change the number.
Change the License Type of a Bare Metal or Virtual Machine DB System
- Open the navigation menu. Click Oracle Database, then click Bare Metal, VM, and Exadata.
- Choose your Compartment.
- In the list of DB systems, find the DB system you want to administer and click its highlighted name.
- On the DB system details page, click Update License Type.
The dialog displays the options with your current license type selected.
- Select the new license type.
- Click Save.