I’ve had a significant proportion of my clients (maybe a third?) ask for my advice and guidance on VMware Oracle licensing. They seem to be scared (either through first or second-hand experience) of a bill from Oracle for their entire virtualization infrastructure because the potential exists for vMotion-ing Oracle server workloads from machine to machine and now across vCenters (since that’s a feature now in vSphere 6!). As a result, I have clients not even connecting their virtualized Oracle hosts to vCenter at all. But what’s myth and what’s fact when it comes to Oracle licensing on VMware?
Note: Oh wow, while I’ve been sitting on this for the past month, Chad Sakac pulled the pin on his grenade.