Capacity-On-Demand Licensing Information

This chapter provides capacity-on-demand licensing information for Oracle Database Appliance bare metal installations.

Oracle Database Appliance Capacity-on-Demand Licensing Capacity-on-Demand software licensing enables you to deploy as few or as many processors in Oracle Database Appliance as your workload requires.
Capacity-On-Demand Licensing for Oracle Database Appliance X11-S, X11-L, and X11-HA

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Capacity-On-Demand Licensing for Oracle Database Appliance X10-S, X10-L, and X10-HA

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Capacity-On-Demand Licensing for Oracle Database Appliance X8-2S, X8-2M, and X8-2-HA

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Capacity-On-Demand Licensing for Oracle Database Appliance X7-2S, X7-2M, and X7-2-HA

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Oracle Database Appliance Capacity-on-Demand Licensing

Capacity-on-Demand software licensing enables you to deploy as few or as many processors in Oracle Database Appliance as your workload requires.

Oracle Database Appliance’s Capacity-on-Demand feature enables you to add more processor cores to scale up to increased system demands as you need to, without incurring the excessive costs and downtime usually associated with hardware upgrades. Additional cores are increased in 2-core increments.

Oracle Database Appliance Scaling Capabilities

The following table lists the scaling capacities for Oracle Database Appliance bare metal and virtualized platform deployments. The decision to use bare-metal or Oracle Database Appliance Virtualized Platform depends on your company policies and the benefits that each implementation offers your company.

Table 1 Oracle Database Appliance Scaling Capacities

Oracle Database Appliance Platform	Minimum Number Processor Cores	Maximum Number Processor Cores
X11-S	2	32
X11-L	2	64
X11-HA	2	128
X10-S	2	32
X10-L	2	64
X10-HA	2	128
X9-2S	2	16
X9-2L	2	32
X9-2-HA	2	64
X8-2S	2	16
X8-2M	2	32
X8-2-HA	2	64
X7-2S	2	10
X7-2M	2	36
X7-2-HA	2	72

Applications Deployed on Oracle Database Appliance and Capacity-on-Demand

All Oracle products that are deployed on Oracle Database Appliance can take advantage of Capacity-on-Demand licensing.

Note: For the procedure to set the CPU Core Count, see the Oracle Database Appliance Deployment and User Guide for your hardware model.

Capacity-On-Demand Licensing for Oracle Database Appliance X11-S, X11-L, and X11-HA

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For the procedure to set the CPU Core Count, see the Oracle Database Appliance Deployment and User Guide for your hardware model.

The following list describes the number of cores for each Oracle Database Appliance X11-S model:

Oracle Database Appliance X11-S is a single server consisting of 32 cores.
Oracle Database Appliance X11-L is a single server consisting of 64 cores.
Oracle Database Appliance X11-HA consists of two servers. Each server has 64 cores, for a total of 128 cores.

By default, Oracle Database Appliance ships with all cores enabled. You can reduce the number of active cores before or after deployment. You can increase the number of active cores when additional capacity is needed. This is known as capacity-on-demand. Additional cores are increased in 2-core increments.

Rules and Restrictions for Setting CPU Core Count on Oracle Database Appliance X11-S, X11-L, and X11-HA 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 the maximum number of cores for the hardware model. For example, for X11-HA, between 2 and 64 cores for each server for a maximum of 128 cores.
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 the maximum number of cores.

For example, if you change the CPU core count to 8, then you can subsequently increase the CPU core count to a higher number (in increments of 2 cores), but you cannot decrease the CPU core count.
If you want the maximum number of cores for each server (32 cores per server for X11-L and X11-HA), then use the default configuration. There is no need to set the CPU core count. Note: If you mistakenly followed the procedure to set your CPU core count to the maximum, thereby preventing you from subsequently decreasing your CPU core count, and the error is caught immediately, then contact Oracle Support.

Capacity-On-Demand Licensing for Oracle Database Appliance X10-S, X10-L, and X10-HA

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For the procedure to set the CPU Core Count, see the Oracle Database Appliance Deployment and User Guide for your hardware model.

The following list describes the number of cores for each Oracle Database Appliance X10-S model:

Oracle Database Appliance X10-S is a single server consisting of 32 cores.
Oracle Database Appliance X10-L is a single server consisting of 64 cores.
Oracle Database Appliance X10-HA consists of two servers. Each server has 64 cores, for a total of 128 cores.

Rules and Restrictions for Setting CPU Core Count on Oracle Database Appliance X10-S, X10-L, and X10-HA 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 the maximum number of cores for the hardware model. For example, for X10-HA, between 2 and 64 cores for each server for a maximum of 128 cores.
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 the maximum number of cores.

For example, if you change the CPU core count to 8, then you can subsequently increase the CPU core count to a higher number (in increments of 2 cores), but you cannot decrease the CPU core count.
If you want the maximum number of cores for each server (32 cores per server for X10-L and X10-HA), then use the default configuration. There is no need to set the CPU core count. Note: If you mistakenly followed the procedure to set your CPU core count to the maximum, thereby preventing you from subsequently decreasing your CPU core count, and the error is caught immediately, then contact Oracle Support.

Capacity-On-Demand Licensing for Oracle Database Appliance X9-2S, X9-2L, and X9-2-HA

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For the procedure to set the CPU Core Count, see the Oracle Database Appliance Deployment and User Guide for your hardware model.

The following list describes the number of cores for each Oracle Database Appliance X9-2 model:

Oracle Database Appliance X9-2S is a single server consisting of 16 cores.
Oracle Database Appliance X9-2L is a single server consisting of 32 cores.
Oracle Database Appliance X9-2-HA consists of two servers. Each server has 32 cores, for a total of 64 cores.

Rules and Restrictions for Setting CPU Core Count on Oracle Database Appliance X9-2S, X9-2L, and X9-2-HA 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 the maximum number of cores for the hardware model. For example, for X9-2-HA, between 2 and 32 cores for each server for a maximum of 64 cores.
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 the maximum number of cores.

For example, if you change the CPU core count to 8, then you can subsequently increase the CPU core count to a higher number (in increments of 2 cores), but you cannot decrease the CPU core count.
If you want the maximum number of cores for each server (32 cores per server for X9-2L and X9-2-HA), then use the default configuration. There is no need to set the CPU core count. Note: If you mistakenly followed the procedure to set your CPU core count to the maximum, thereby preventing you from subsequently decreasing your CPU core count, and the error is caught immediately, then contact Oracle Support.

Capacity-On-Demand Licensing for Oracle Database Appliance X8-2S, X8-2M, and X8-2-HA

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For the procedure to set the CPU Core Count, see the Oracle Database Appliance Deployment and User Guide for your hardware model.

The following list describes the number of cores for each Oracle Database Appliance X8-2 model:

Oracle Database Appliance X8-2S is a single server consisting of 16 cores.
Oracle Database Appliance X8-2M is a single server consisting of 32 cores.
Oracle Database Appliance X8-2-HA consists of two servers. Each server has 32 cores, for a total of 64 cores.

Rules and Restrictions for Setting CPU Core Count on Oracle Database Appliance X8-2S, X8-2M, and X8-2-HA 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 the maximum number of cores for the hardware model. For example, for X8-2-HA, between 2 and 32 cores for each server for a maximum of 64 cores.
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 the maximum number of cores.

For example, if you change the CPU core count to 8, then you can subsequently increase the CPU core count to a higher number (in increments of 2 cores), but you cannot decrease the CPU core count.
If you want the maximum number of cores for each server (32 cores per server for X8-2M and X8-2-HA), then use the default configuration. There is no need to set the CPU core count. Note: If you mistakenly followed the procedure to set your CPU core count to the maximum, thereby preventing you from subsequently decreasing your CPU core count, and the error is caught immediately, then contact Oracle Support.

Capacity-On-Demand Licensing for Oracle Database Appliance X7-2S, X7-2M, and X7-2-HA

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For the procedure to se the CPU Core Count, see the Oracle Database Appliance Deployment and User Guide for your hardware model.

The following list describes the number of cores for each Oracle Database Appliance X7-2 model:

Oracle Database Appliance X7-2S is a single server consisting of 10 cores.
Oracle Database Appliance X7-2M is a single server consisting of 36 cores.
Oracle Database Appliance X7-2-HA consists of two servers. Each server has 36 cores, for a total of 72 cores.

Rules and Restrictions for Setting CPU Core Count on Oracle Database Appliance X7-2S, X7-2M, and X7-2-HA 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 the maximum number of cores for the hardware model. For example, for X7-2-HA, between 2 and 36 cores for each server for a maximum of 72 cores.
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 the maximum number of cores.

For example, if you change the CPU core count to 8, then you can subsequently increase the CPU core count to a higher number (in increments of 2 cores), but you cannot decrease the CPU core count.
If you want the maximum number of cores for each server (36 cores per server for X7-2M and X7-2-HA), then use the default configuration. There is no need to set the CPU core count. Note: If you mistakenly followed the procedure to set your CPU core count to the maximum, thereby preventing you from subsequently decreasing your CPU core count, and the error is caught immediately, then contact Oracle Support.