Hi
In spite of having enterprise vsphere environment, we still have a separate OracleVM for the reason of Oracle licensing.
It does not support sub-capacity licensing on VMware (e.g. Cores the are physically present in vSphere host will have to be licensed for Oracle RAC).
With RAC, all nodes are both in active-active in Oracle VM.
In view of this, its been a stumbling block for us having those oracle application & db VM be migrated to vSphere infrastructure.
I have 2 nodes of Oracle VM on top of BL460 G7 blades with 96GB of RAM.
1. How am I justify that moving it to vSphere with the same nodes configuration and dedicated cluster will be the same licensing with Oracle?
2. Is it posible to build a 2 nodes vSphere cluster with just 2 cores on each node or it depends on the hardware specs?
3. How beneficial for us moving those 2 nodes Oracle VM to VMware vSphere?
Thanks