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Marcel Lamarca André Sousa

Exadata Cloud Specialist ISV’s Specialist
Oracle, Alliances & Channels Oracle, Alliances & Channels
LAD LAD

March, 2024
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About My Career
• 22 Years dedicated to study and support Oracle Databases.
• 13 Years working with Exadata (On-prem, C@C and Cloud Services) .
• 5 Year working for Oracle do Brasil
• 2 Year on Alliances LAD knowledge Team

Certifications
Oracle Cloud Specialist (OCS)
• Exadata Database Machine X9M Certified Specialist
• OCI Foundation 2020 / 2023
• Oracle Autonomous Database Administrator Professional 2019 / 2023
• Oracle Cloud Database Migration and Integration 2021
• OCI Cloud Certified Architect Associate 2022
• OCI Cloud Certified Architect Professional 2022
• OCI Multi-Cloud Architect Professional 2023
MARCEL LAMARCA • Oracle Database Services Certified Professional 2023
Exadata C lo ud Spec ialist
Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
Upgrad e, Utilities, Patching, Performanc e & Migratio ns
• Oracle Database certified professional 10g, 11g, 12c and 19c.
marcel-lamarca • Mysql 8.0 Database Administrator Certified Professional
Oracle Certified Specialist (OCE)
[email protected]
• Grid/RAC Database Administrator 11g
• Oracle Golden Gate 12c Certified Implementation Specialist

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Janes and Raul's father, Son, Husband 25 years, dba old school

Graduated in Information Systems

I live a little away from everything even before the world changes

I'm working in Oracle for 21 with Oracle Database products

adoption in South America, work mainly with ISVs and SIs helping
them on different activities such as POCs, Application Validations,
Tuning, he participated as advisor in more than 100 Migration and
Upgrade projects.

Oracle Certified Professional 11g (OCP)

[email protected]

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Agenda

1 2 3 4
Licenses concepts Oracle Support Oracle Cloud Oracle Database

License types Standard Edition

Database Timeline OCI License
License Metrics Manager Enterprise Edition
Support Rewards
Oracle Price List BYOL Oracle Price List
Hard Partition License included
Soft Partition Universal Credits

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 Licenses Basic
components

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Oracle Database topics to be consider

Oracle Database Infrastructure Oracle Database Oracle Database

Product Platform Edition Version

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General Licensing Information
Environments

Development Quality Assurance, Testing & Disaster Recovery

Staging Document database

Check Database Dev Policy Check Testing Policy here Check DR Policy Doc here
Here

Licensing issues are not presented only in production environments!

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 Oracle Processor
concepts

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Modernization topics for today’s discussion—there are many more

CPU VCPU CORE OCPU

Central Processor unit

May contain one or more

cores

Used as metric for Oracle

Database Standard Edition 2

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CPU VCPU CORE OCPU

Central Processor unit Virtual Central processor unit

May contain one or more Can be a core or a thread

cores
Used as metric for others
Used as metric for Oracle Cloud providers
Database Standard Edition 2

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CPU VCPU CORE OCPU

Central Processor unit Virtual Central processor unit Virtual or physical subdivision
of a CPU
May contain one or more Can be a core or a thread
cores Can be a core or a thread
Used as metric for others
Used as metric for Oracle Cloud providers Used as metric for Oracle
Database Standard Edition 2 Database Enterprise Edition

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CPU VCPU CORE OCPU

Central Processor unit Virtual Central processor unit Virtual or physical subdivision Processing Unit that Oracle
of a CPU Uses to create Services on
May contain one or more Can be a core or a thread OCI
cores Can be a core or a thread
Used as metric for others Used for BYOL and core factor
Used as metric for Oracle Cloud providers Used as metric for Oracle table
Database Standard Edition 2 Database Enterprise Edition

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 Software Licensing
Metrics

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 Oracle Full Use license Application Specific Full (ASFU)

Full Use license is without restrictions and Use is specific to run only with the defined
allows usage that is full functionality. application and may come with additional
restrictions.
you don’t have Limitations to install third
applications including Oracle Tools. Share the same Datatabe with another applications
and tools are not allowed.
Application Examples : SAP, Oracle Business Suite,
ISV

Not Allowed examples :

• Sqlplus connections
• Golden Gate connections
• Sql Developer connections

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 Oracle Named User Plus VS Processor Metric
Definition

Named User Plus (NUP) Processor Metric

Metric is defined as individuals authorized to use Oracle The Processor metric is used to license all processors where Oracle
programs installed on single or multiple servers. Licensing programs are installed and/or running.
considerations include:

• Human and non-human operated devices are counted

towards NUP license • Most Standard Edition products are licensed by Processor, which
for Standard Edition programs is defined as a socket

• Batch processing from computer to computer is permitted

and does not require counting users at the front of the batch • Enterprise Edition and other technology products may be
process licensed by cores

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 Oracle Core Factor table

• Core factor gives you the delta to calculate Database Enterprise

licenses number by processor

• Oracle strongly recomends check on-line documentation to be

aware of all recent changes

• Core factor is used to calculate Database Enterprise Features too

• Last update on Septermber, 5 2023

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 Oracle Database Editions

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 Database Standard Edition Oracle Database Enterprise Edition

Oracle Database 19c Standard Edition 2 has some

Is the most complete version of Oracle database
limitations compared to the Enterprise Edition.
software, core-based licensing.

• Lisensed by physical socket (core Factor not • There is no limit for core usage
allowed)
• The delta to calculate CPU lisenses is :
• Oracle consider the socket factor limited by 2
sokets
(# of cores x core factor = # of Processor licenses)

• Standard Edition model using NUP metric

requires at least >10 users • Enterprise Edition model using NUP metric requires at
least >25 users per processor lisences

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Oracle Database Standard Edition VS Enterprise Edition

Security Features/Option Enterprise Edition Standard Edition

Database Security Assessment Tool  
Data Safe  
Password Profiles  
Strong Authentication  
Network Encryption  
Oracle RAC  ⦸
Oracle RAC one node  ⦸
Unified Audit  
Oracle Active Data Guard  ⦸
Transparent Data Encryption  ⦸
Management Pack for Oracle Database  ⦸
Oracle Diagnostics Pack  ⦸
Oracle Tuning Pack  ⦸
Oracle Partition  ⦸
Oracle Advanced compression  ⦸
Real Application Test  ⦸
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Oracle Database Versions, Editions, limitations and features

• Support Policy for Generic SQL Performance Issues (Doc ID 1198303.1)

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 Oracle Database on virtualized
environments

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 What is Partitioning?

“Partitioning” occurs when the CPUs on a server are separated into individual
sections where each section acts as a separate system.

There are several hardware and software virtualization technologies available

that deliver partitioning capabilities, with varying degree of resource allocation
flexibility.”

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 Why Partition ?

• Database Administrators (DBAs) often partition servers to achieve the following benefits:

• Ability to run multiple operating systems, or multiple versions of an operating system, on the same server

• Ability to improve workload balancing and distribution by managing processor allocations across
applications and users on the server

• Ability to leverage hardware models such as “Capacity on Demand” and "Pay As You Grow.”

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 Hard Partitioning Soft Partitioning

Hard partitioning physically segments a server, by Soft partitioning segments the operating system using OS
taking a single large server and separating it into resource managers.
distinct smaller systems.
The operating system limits the number of CPUs where an
Each separated system acts as a physically Oracle database is running by creating areas where CPU
independent. resources are allocated.

Examples : Examples :

• Hard Partitioning - LPAR

• Soft Partitioning - VSphere

• Hard Partitioning - LDOM

• Soft Partitioning - HyperV

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 Understanding Trusted Partitioning on OCI

Data/Schema Customer subscribes to database services

• Oracle Recognizes Hypervisor Technology
Databases
• You can add Processors with no need to cover all Physical cores

Customer VM • Oracle staff are not authorized to access customer VM

Hypervisor
Oracle owns and manages infrastructure on OCI Databases
e Servers
Databas

• Hypervisor, database and storage servers, storage network

Internal Fabric
• Patching, security scans, security updates
Storage Servers

• Monitoring and maintenance

• Customer not authorized to access Oracle infrastructure

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 Oracle Database
Features

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Oracle Database and most used features options

Multitenant

In-Memory DB

Real Application
Clusters

Active Data
Guard
What feature
All Oracle
Partitioning

Advanced
Database your
Compression

Advanced Security,
Innovations environment
Label Security, DB
Vault
Real Application
needs ?
Testing

Advanced Analytics,
Spatial and Graph

Management Packs
for
Oracle Database

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• How To Verify Which Database Features are Used (Doc ID 459837.1)

• Support Policy for Generic SQL Performance Issues (Doc ID 1198303.1)

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Oracle Database Releases and timeline
My Oracle Support Official Note (Doc ID 742060.1)

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 Oracle Products Support life Time

• Major product and technology releases

• Technical support

• My Oracle Support

• Updates, fixes, security alerts, data fixes, and critical patch

updates

• Tax, legal, and regulatory updates

• Upgrade scripts

• Certification with most new third-party products/versions

• Certification with most new Oracle products

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 Understanding Price List

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 Understanding price list table

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 Licensing Oracle Enterprise Database Sample

15 Warehouse Distribution Scanners • Current distribution company has 40 named users

between Employees and Warehouse scanners.

Oracle Database EE

25 Delivery Employees using

held devices
Oracle Database Enterprise Edition is running on
Custom Application
:
4 Processors

• 2 Processors server
• 12 Cores per processor
• 0.5 Core Factor

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Let's check some numbers ?

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 0.5 Core Factor

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 (# of cores x core factor = # of Processor licenses)
• 2 Processors server
• 12 Cores per processor
• 0.5 Core Factor
2 Processor 12 Cores 24 Cores

24 Cores 0.5 Core factor 12 Processor licenses required

By Core Factor

By Named User NUP

12 Processor 25 (user minimum) 300 Named User Plus user

licenses

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 1.0 Core Factor

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 (# of cores x core factor = # of Processor licenses)
• 2 Processors server
• 12 Cores per processor
• 1.0 Core Factor
2 Processor 12 Cores 24 Cores

24 Cores 1.0 Core factor 24 Processor licenses required

By Core Factor

By Named User NUP

24 Processor 25 (user minimum) 600 Named User Plus user

licenses

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 OCI Database Licensing
Model

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Cost-Effective Software Licensing Models
Subscribe to infrastructure and choose License Included or Bring Your Own License
(BYOL)

License Included Pricing Bring Your Own License Pricing

Ideal for organizations with new Ideal for organizations moving existing
workloads and dynamic utilization workloads with consistent usage to the
cloud
• Includes Oracle Database Enterprise
Edition with all options and • Utilize existing on-premises licenses and
management packs at one low price pay software support for them

• Consumption-based pricing for • Very-low, compute-only consumption

software and vCPUs, includes software pricing, paid for with Universal Credits
support and paid for with Universal
Credits • Includes Transparent Data Encryption,
Data Safe, Oracle Machine Learning, and
select management packs at no additional
cost

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You can change license type using OCI Console

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Online, Elastic Scaling with Exadata and Autonomous Database
Services Pay only for what you use, in OCI or your data center

Total Processor Resources

Manually Scaled CPU cores Autonomously Scaled CPU cores
Unused
Resources 3x vCPU
Autoscaling

Enabled
vCPUs
Processor usage over time Processor usage over time Processor usage over time

On-Premises & Other Clouds – Static Exadata Database Service – Elastic Autonomous Database – Self-scaling
Purchase server processors and software Adjust enabled CPUs to match actual workload Automatically scales CPU core consumption
licenses for highest projected peak load via APIs and web UI - CPUs are charged per based on dynamic workload demands, in real-
second time

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Oracle PaaS and IaaS Universal Credits Description

Pay as You Go (PAYG)

• No upfront commitment

• Pay only for what you use

• Pay in arrears based on usage

• Built for land and expand

Universal Credits

• Agreed-to monthly spend

• Additional discounts based on size and term of deal

• Elastic payments based on usage

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 Autonomous Database
Billing

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Autonomous Database ECPU billing

• The introduction of ECPU’s is simply a new pricing metric. Using an ECPU

Autonomous Database is essentially identical to an OCPU Autonomous
Database

• The OCPU billing metric has been retired on Autonomous Data Warehouse
and Autonomous Transaction Processing as of January 2024

• ECPU's provide similar or better price-performance than OCPU's for a given

Autonomous Database workload.

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Retirement Of The OCPU Billing Metric In Autonomous Database Serverless (Doc ID
2998742.1)

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Retirement Of The OCPU Billing Metric In Autonomous Database On Dedicated Infra (Doc ID
2998755.1)

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 OCI License Manager

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 Oracle’s Cost Management and Governance Strategy
Core principle to guide cloud leaders into best
practices

Cost Management and Governance and

Optimization Control

Tenancies

Cost Analysis Cloud Advisor Network Load Balancer Quotas Organizations

Support Access
Budget License Manager
Rewards Governance
Compute Autonomous Object
Database Storage
Universal Credit 3rd party
integration

Easy-to-use Automated Prescriptive

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 Oracle License Manager on OCI
Console

1 2
Read Phase Copy Phase

A channel reads clocks 2

A channel copies blocks 3 2
from disk into input I/O from
SRinput buffers to
creation Stay engaged withSR creation
buffers. output buffers and Oracle Support process flow
process flow
performs additional
processing on the blocks.

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 License Manager

License Manager is a free, opt-in service that makes it

easier for you to Bring Your Own License (BYOL) on
OCI with the following capabilities:

• Automating the license portability rules for Oracle Database

products to OCI Database service

• Single pane of glass to track licensing needs on both IaaS and

PaaS resources. Use the same tool to track Oracle and Third-
party license utilization

• Pro-active email notification on over-subscription and license

expiration scenarios.

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Oracle License Manager Configuration steps

Step 1 : Click Add Product License button.

Step 2 : Select between Oracle and third party

for License creation.

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Oracle License Manager Configuration steps

Step 3 : Select an Oracle Database Product

Edition.
Samples : Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition.

Step 4 : You can choose options : Real

Application Cluster (RAC), Multitenant and
Active Data Guard

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Oracle License Manager Configuration steps

Step 5 :

• You can input your license record details in the

License record portion of the form.

• You can record information such as your

Customer Support Identifier (CSI)
CSI Number
CSI

• You can also record your support contract end

date and if your license

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Oracle License Manager Configuration steps

Step 6 :

• To track license utilization on Compute

resources, you can associate a Compute image
with your license.

• Under the Image section, select Choose Image.

Oracle Database 19.0.6.220910

• You can select the specific image and image

build in the form that appears.

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Oracle License Manager Configuration steps

Non-mandatory steps :

• You can also add Oracle licenses by clicking

the Import Oracle Product Licenses button on
the Product License page.

• You can download an Excel template, edit it

to match your licensing data, and reimport
it. The following image depicts a sample
file.

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Oracle License Manager Configuration steps

• You can view the entitlements and

requirements for a license in the metric that
the license was created in from the Product
Licenses page.

• You can also choose to receive a weekly

email notification on scenarios such as
oversubscription of licenses or license
[email protected] records at or near expiration by adding the
email recipient list on the Notifications page

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Oracle License Manager Configuration steps

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License Manager e-mail
notification

If items require action, you receive an email

similar to the following example.

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 License communication
channels

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 MOS Service SR Technical vs Non-Technical

SR Type Problem Required Privileges

• Restricted privilege assigned by CUA

Technical • Product related
• Create – View - None

Non-Technical • Permissions - Login • All users

• Create - Update – and View your own
• License - Entitlement

Or send an e-mail to : [email protected]

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Oracle Software Investiment Advisor

For more informatio contact [email protected] or visit

www.oracle.com/goto/sia
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Oracle License Management Services (LMS)

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 Resources

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• Oracle Database Licensing

www.oracle.com/assets/databaselicensing-070584.pdf

• Oracle Processor Core factor Table

www.oracle.com/us/corporate/contracts/processor-core-factor-table-070634.pdf

• Oracle Partition policy

www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/partitioning-070609.pdf

• Licensing Oracle Software in the Cloud Computing Environment

www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/cloud-licensing-070579.pdf

• Oracle Database 23c Licensing Information User Manual

https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/23/dblic/database-licensing-information-user-
manual.pdf
• Oracle Licensing price team e-mail

[email protected]

• Microsoft Licensing on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

https://docs.oracle.com/en-
us/iaas/Content/Compute/References/microsoftlicensing.htm

• OCI Cost Estimator

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/costestimator.html

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• OCI License Manager Documentation
https://docs.oracle.com/pt-br/iaas/Content/LicenseManager/Concepts/licensemanageroverview.htm

• OCI License Manager Announcement

https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/announcing-license-manager-for-oracle-cloud-infrastructure

• Oracle Database Features and licensing comparison

https://apex.oracle.com/database-features/

• Oracle Database Licensing Information User Manual

https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/dblic/database-licensing-information-user-
manual.pdf
• Oracle Database BYOL FAQ

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/bring-your-own-license/faq/

• Oracle Lifetime Support

https://www.oracle.com/us/assets/lifetime-support-technology-069183.pdf

• Oracle Licensing Management Services

https://www.oracle.com/corporate/license-management-services/

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Thank you

Marcel Lamarca
[email protected]
m
André Sousa
[email protected]

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