{"id":7553,"date":"2015-09-03T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/en-us\/?p=7553"},"modified":"2015-09-03T00:00:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T00:00:13","slug":"oracle-database-standard-edition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/en-us\/oracle-database-standard-edition-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle Database Standard Edition 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Blog post by\u00a0Paul Bullen, Version 1 Licensing Consultant <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The current Standard Edition and Standard Edition One licenses are now only valid on Oracle 12c Release 1 and earlier versions of the Database product. To upgrade to Oracle 12c Release 2 and later Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 licenses must be used. For those clients with existing Standard Edition licenses the migration to Standard Edition 2 licenses is, currently, fee free. For those clients with Standard Edition One licences there is a \u201cmigration\u201d fee to be paid.<\/p>\n<p>Functionally, Standard Edition 2 licences provide the same features as a Standard Edition licence. There are however changes to the hardware restrictions imposed by Oracle to use Standard Edition 2 licenses. The main changes are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Servers may have maximum of 2 sockets.<\/li>\n<li>RAC Cluster limit is 2 single socket servers.<\/li>\n<li>Databases limited to 16 active user threads.<\/li>\n<li>The Named User Plus minimum is now 10 NUPs per server<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The limit on the number of active user threads is likely to have the greatest impact on current client deployments. Particularly for those clients with Hyper-Threaded Intel processors, this limit effectively restricts each database to 8 cores of physical processor. Where a database is deployed in a RAC cluster, the effect is to limit each servers processing capacity to 4 physical processor cores on each server. Clients using AMD Opteron based servers should verify their processors are not multi-chip modules as some models may contain 2 processors in a single package, using more than one physical package in a server would breach the Standard Edition 2 socket limit.<\/p>\n<p>Where Standard Edition 2 databases are deployed within a VMware environment, the Standard Edition 2 license will restrict each server in the environment to a 2 socket model.<\/p>\n<p>The overall effect of these changes appears to place Standard Edition back into the market space it was originally intended to cover, that of departmental databases and workgroup environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blog post by\u00a0Paul Bullen, Version 1 Licensing Consultant The current Standard Edition and Standard Edition One licenses are now only valid on Oracle 12c Release 1 and earlier versions of the Database product. To upgrade to Oracle 12c Release 2 and later Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 licenses must be used. 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