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    Sub-cluster Licensing in the VMware Cloud on AWS

    Oracle finally approved sub-cluster licensing on VMware Cloud for AWS — potentially reducing your minimum licensing requirement to just 8 cores. But the devil is in the implementation details. Here's what qualifies, what doesn't, and how to avoid common setup mistakes.

    Dean Bolton

    Dean Bolton

    Chief Architect, LicenseFortress

    August 2019
    3 min read
    Sub-cluster Licensing in the VMware Cloud on AWS

    Oracle finally approved sub-cluster licensing on VMware Cloud for AWS — potentially reducing your minimum licensing requirement to just 8 cores. But the devil is in the implementation details. Here's what qualifies, what doesn't, and how to avoid common setup mistakes.

    The bottom line

    Oracle finally approved sub-cluster licensing on VMware Cloud for AWS — potentially reducing your minimum licensing requirement to just 8 cores. But the devil is in the implementation details. Here's what qualifies, what doesn't, and how to avoid common setup mistakes.

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    About the author

    Dean Bolton

    Dean Bolton

    Chief Architect, LicenseFortress

    Dean leads LicenseFortress' technical licensing practice, covering Oracle, VMware, virtualization and infrastructure licensing rules.

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