Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Dear All,

We are planning to upgrade our OS from AIX 5.3 to AIX 6.1 and infact have upgraded couple of servers to 6.

In light of cost saving/cutting, how can AIX 6 help reduce licensing fee for Oracle databases. In other words, we would like to look into possibilities of reducing Oracle database (10g/11g) licensing fee by upgrading OS to AIX 6.

Will the new feature like CPU virtualization be helpful in this regard? Are there any other features which could be worth looking into?

I would be grateful if any of you could shed some light on this.

Regards
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Originally posted by: CRM

I would contact your Oracle rep to clarify, it will also depend on which type of licenses you have, standard, enterprise or an enterprise agreement.

The two technologies that spring to mind that could be used are:

WPARs in AIX 6.1
Multiple Shared Processing Pools on POWER6 chips.

Looking at the oracle licensing you will be doing well to get WPARs identified as the Oracle site seems to frown on so called soft partitioning technologies as it refers to them.

MSPP might get on better but this is not stated by name so you would need to chase this up with your rep.

For IBM software such as DB2 I was looking the other day and found this:

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/passportadvantage/SubCapacity/Eligible_Virtualization_Technology.pdf

regards

Chris
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