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Oracle Licensing Mastery · Module 6 · Session 27 of 40 · 30:25

BYOL and license included

BYOL reprices OCI database services by roughly three quarters using licenses you already own, one Enterprise Edition processor covering two OCPUs, on conditions the audit machine can check: support active, options matched, one deployment per license. License included is the flexible answer, elasticity, bundled options, clean exits, support independence, and this session prices both honestly, workload by workload. Module 2's shelfware ledger becomes a cloud currency inventory, the harvest sources get ranked, the third party interaction gets mapped, and the worked example lands a $376K a year saving on eight licenses that were gathering dust.

What you will be able to do after this session

  • 1Define BYOL precisely. Know what bring your own license grants, requires, and costs in OCI.
  • 2Run the conversion. Translate processor and named user licenses into OCI service capacity, correctly.
  • 3Price license included. Know what the higher hourly rate buys, and the situations where it is the bargain.
  • 4Harvest the estate. Turn module 2's shelfware and module 4's surpluses into cloud spend avoided.
  • 5Respect the rules. Keep support active, avoid double use, and match options, before an audit checks.

How the session works

A taught session with three knowledge checks: eight shelf licenses converted into a 16 OCPU workload's 75 percent rate cut, the third party supported licenses discovered BYOL ineligible and the portfolio interaction mapped, and the undecommissioned fallback server diagnosed as the compliance gap it is. It closes with one workload priced both ways: license included at $620K against BYOL at $244K all in, and the provisos that keep the saving from becoming a finding.

Homework before the next session, about one hour

  • 1Harvest on paper. Every surplus license listed with its BYOL conversion value. The cloud currency inventory.
  • 2Price the seam twice. Last week's workload: both columns completed, license included and BYOL, support and options included.
  • 3Check the interactions. Any license pool headed for support termination or third party: does the cloud roadmap want it for BYOL first?
  • 4Write the cutover line. One sentence in the migration checklist: cutover includes decommission, evidence filed.
  • 5Map the allocations. Which licenses cover which OCI services, recorded in the entitlement library.
Learning the playbook and want it applied to your numbers? We work on contingency: 25% of what we save you. Nothing saved, nothing paid.
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