Re: AWS infrastructure Boss is Ex-Car mechanic.. says it all.
"Presumably he means overhead on your licensing costs - Do Oracle actually recognise virtualisation in their DB licensing yet?!"
Sort of, I had to look into this for work and basically:
1 Oracle licensing assumes that a core is dedicated to that VM
2 unless you have Oracle's VM software configured in the correct way than HT threads count as Cores so you must turn them off leading to a 30% drop in performance.
I took one look at the above and opted for bear metal servers.
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
