Session 4: Virtualization and Partitioning | Oracle Licensing Mastery

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Virtualization and partitioning

The VMware question, taken apart: what the two page partitioning policy actually is, the hard versus soft sorting that favors Oracle's own technologies, how one 8 vCPU VM becomes a $7.6M claim, and the five move containment playbook. The same database, four architectures: $7.6M, $1.52M, $760K, or $380K.

What you will be able to do after this session

1Read the policy. Know what the partitioning policy says, and its exact contractual weight.
2Sort the technologies. Tell Oracle approved hard partitioning from soft, from memory.
3Size the exposure. Compute what Oracle's position claims on your own virtualized clusters.
4Contain the scope. Apply the playbook: dedicated clusters, isolation, and evidence.
5Hold the line. Engage the VMware conversation as a negotiable claim, not a bill.

How the session works

A taught session with three knowledge checks: the approved hard partitioning list, the 10 host cluster claim priced live ($7.6M from one VM), and the audit letter posture question. It closes with the same database priced across four architectures, a 95 percent spread decided entirely before any negotiation.

Homework before the next session, about one hour

1Map the clusters. For every Oracle database VM: cluster, hosts, cores per host.
2Run Oracle's math. Total cluster cores times 0.5. That is your current opening claim.
3Check the storage. Do Oracle VMs share datastores or migration paths with the general estate?
4Price the dedicated option. Minimum dedicated cluster hardware cost versus the exposure.
5File the diagrams. Dated architecture diagrams, saved with sessions 2 and 3's evidence.

Previous session

Session 3 · Editions and the options trap. What is in the box, the option price list, and the usage record.

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Session 5 · Middleware and technology licensing. WebLogic and the software that ships underneath other software.

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Session materials

The 19 slide deck from this session, in the Redress executive brief format.

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Further reading

Cracking the per core VMware licensing modelThe cluster calculations, worked across more scenarios.
Hard partitioning, done properlyThe approved technologies, configured so the cap holds.
Hidden Oracle audit risksThe virtualization findings, alongside the usual suspects.
Challenging Oracle audit findingsHow cluster scope claims get contested, and what evidence moves them.
How Oracle selects audit targetsWhy heavily virtualized estates sit high on the audit list.

The full course

40 sessions across 8 modules, from the counting rules to the capstone negotiation strategy.

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Learning the playbook and want it applied to your numbers? We work on contingency: 25% of what we save you. Nothing saved, nothing paid.