2 Restricted Licensing

This chapter contains information about restricted licensing options for Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

Note:

The following options are complimentary and can be used in conjunction with each other.

• Capacity-On-Demand
  You can reduce the number of active cores on your Exadata database servers to lower the initial software licensing cost, but this does not change the hardware cost.
• Trusted Partitions
  Trusted Partitions allow you to use virtual machines (VMs) to limit the required number of processor licenses for Oracle software on Oracle Exadata Database Machine.