Oracle Standard Edition One Licenses and MCMs

[rachelfritts]

Hi,

I'm new to Flexera and wondering if someone can explain to me the following in the Oracle practice guide about multi-chip modules (or MCMs): "When licensing Oracle programs with Standard Edition in the
name, a processor is counted equivalent to an occupied socket.
In the case of multi-chip modules, each chip in the multi-chip
module is counted as one occupied socket. FlexNet Manager
Suite for Oracle includes sophisticated license models that
accurately calculate consumption for products licensed on
Oracle Processor. "

I've tried googling, but can't find a definitive answer on what this means.

Thanks for your help,

Rachel

[mrichardson]

In FNMS terms, read "occupied socket" as number of processors i.e. number of occupied sockets = number of processors in FNMS.

Therefore each chip would be counted as 1 processor in FNMS.

Is this what you were looking for?

[rachelfritts]

Thank you for your reply!  I'm still not sure if each chip in the multi-chip
module means the chip is a core -- nor do I know if we are even running multi-chip modules.  I can't even figure out from googling.  What I have found is that MCMs are old types of processors, but our processors aren't that old.

[JohnSorensenDK]

@rachelfritts 

I would recommend that you refer to the explanation in https://www.oracle.com/assets/databaselicensing-070584.pdf and if you're still in doubt you should reach out to Oracle.

Thanks,