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Hello Community
I have a customer with three E880 full licensed with Oracle, he wants to move his LPARs to three E1080 platform using LPM, just to migrate his current LPARs to then shut down his E880s. Oracle documentation states to license both source and target, under this scenario. Any suggestions on how to migrate this platform and not have a licensing conflict with Oracle?
Thanks.

Hi Diego. Solved many times by other Power/Oracle customers. You are right LPM is not allowed. You have to move the LPARs offline. It means stop systems on E880 and then start up on E1080. SAN storage is expecting there.

 In such a case internal information in Oracle DB will record information about new DB start on new host system. It is important for later Oracle Compliance. E880 system must be decommissioned. It means no Oracle SW installed there. 

Attention: License is necessary for all Oracle SW RUNNING and INSTALLED! This is the fact which is not logical and also not known. Be carefully to prove that Oracle SW installed and running only one place. Discussion with Oracle LMS is not easy and only they have a truth!

Hi Diego.

Another option could be to work with processor-pools. When you put your oracle-lpars in a processor pool on the source and the target system, you can remove some cpus on the source and add the same amount on the target system to the pool. The migration can be done step by step.

Beware!

Shared processor pools allow to contain licenses required for Oracle, BUT as soon as you utilize LPM (live partition mobility) that containment "breaks" and you'd need to license ALL cores on the source and the destination server - regardless of deployment of Oracle LPARs in shared processor pools.

As a side note - the legally binding documentation is the contract between the customer and Oracle and those contracts can be different!