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BCA2533BULicensing Oracle and SQLServer on vSphereScott Salyer, VMware, Inc.Dave Welch, House of Brick#vmworld #BCA2533BU
Oracle on VMwareLicensingAgenda:Licensing rulesOracle’s tacticsAudit preparation House of Brick Technologies2
House of BrickEstablished in 1998Industry leader in Oracle virtualization & licensingVirtual Business Critical Applicationperformance transparencyKey servicesq Oracle and SQL Server specialtiesq Managed License Support Servicesq Oracle license review & audit defenseq Managed Consulting Servicesq Cloud architecturesq RISC replatforming to vSphere House of Brick Technologies.3
Dave Welch – CTO, Chief EvangelistOracle license executive team memberSystem architect1994 DBAdwelch@houseofbrick.com@ORAvbca House of Brick Technologies.4
Polling House of Brick Technologies.5
Oracle Contract’s Licensing LevelEnterprise?vCenter?Cluster?Sub-Cluster?OLSA V121510 US OPN.DOC“Processor: shall be defined as all processors where the Oracleprograms are installed and/or running.” House of Brick Technologies.6
Oracle Java Licensing – The ChallengeOracle JDK aka Oracle Java SEq Requires license for commercial useq January 2019: Java 8 public support stoppedq April 2019: Oracle Java commercial use licenseConcernsq Inadvertent liabilitiesq Securityq Patching/re-testingBoth OpenJDK (Open Source) and Oracle Java maintained by Oracleq Restricted OpenJDK patching frequencyRedHat is stepping up to OpenJDKq Frequent patching cycleHouse of Brick’s 8 February 2019 blog post t-changes-to-java-licensing/ House of Brick Technologies.7
Oracle License Options in AWSAWS Deployment OptionOracle CloudEnv PolicyDB SE BundleCore-BasedLicenseULARDSEC2 ComputeVMware Cloud on AWSDedicated Hosts on EC2EC2 Bare Metal rver-on-the-vmware-cloud-on-aws/ House of Brick Technologies.8
Oracle Partitioning PolicySoft Partitioning: limits the number of CPUs where an Oracledatabase is running Examples include: VMware.Soft partitioning is not permitted as a means to determine or limit thenumber of software licenses required for any given partitioning-070609.pdf House of Brick Technologies.9
Capability License Event?
Class Action LawsuitsCity of Sunrise Florida FirefightersPension FundCity of Providence Rhode Island10 August 20186 May 20198 March 2019 - Securities Class ComplaintSecurities Class Complaint integrated byreferenceAllegations: By nine former employees(most director/ level) Sustained misrepresentation of Oracle’scloud revenue and installed base Stock price manipulation Oracle’s audit and sales tactics to inflatecloud revenue numbersAllegations: Oracle Corp has been victimized by theexecutive team Excessive stock buy-back during the period Inflated stock price in the NetSuite pulation-a-laymans-analysis/ House of Brick Technologies.11
Class Action Lawsuits (con’t) the sales teamsand LMS closelycoordinated sales would directLMS to targetclients for audit. the sales teamwould “identifylarge clients theythought they couldget more moneyout of and threatenthem with audits,”instructing LMS tosay the Companyhad suspicions thatthey were out ofcompliance. frequently, neither sales any statementsnor LMS had realfrom Oracle thatevidence that customersLMS wastargeted for audits were independent fromnoncompliant, but thatsales are a lie.the mere threat of anaudit would put thecustomers under somuch pressure, becauseof the enormity of thepotential penalties, thatcustomers had no choicebut to agree to -pricemanipulation-a-laymans-analysis/ House of Brick Technologies.12
Class Action Lawsuits (con’t) frequently, neither sales nor LMS had real evidence that customers targeted for auditswere noncompliant, but that the mere threat of an audit would put the customers under somuch pressure, because of the enormity of the potential penalties, that customers had nochoice but to agree to Oracle’s pulation-a-laymans-analysis/ House of Brick Technologies.13
A special committee of three Oracle board members – independent directors includingformer U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta – sent a letter to Vice-ChancellorGlasscock, advising him that the committee wants the (St. Louis) Firemen’s (Retirement)fund to push on with claims on behalf of Oracle against Ellison, Oracle CEO Safra Catzand potentially other board UJ House of Brick Technologies.14
vSphere 5.5 Extended SupportJuly 2019 announcement: Now offeredthrough September 2020If motivated by Oracle:q Dirty money VMware doesn’t want?Amend with non-standard -support-ends-in-september-now-what-or-so-what/ House of Brick Technologies.15
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Mars v. Oracle Lawsuit“Oracle programs are installed on any processors where theprograms are available for use. Third-party VMware technologyspecifically is designed for the purpose of allowing live migrationof programs to all processors across the entire environment.”Chad Russell, Oracle Corporate Counsel 25 Sep 2015 to Khaled Rabbani, Mars GeneralCounsel (Declaration of Eloise Backer, exhibit 11)Mars’ Motion to Dismiss with Prejudice House of Brick Technologies.21
Oracle Corp-Filed Lawsuits Re: VMware “Installed”Case law search results:Time Since MarsQ32019Q12016 House of Brick Technologies.22
Oracle Java Licensing – The SolutionInventoryGet it in writingNo leachingLimit & ApproveHouse of Brick’s 8 February 2019 blog post t-changes-to-java-licensing/ House of Brick Technologies.23
Proactive ApproachOracle License Reviewq Baseline complianceq Optimization analysis—license, architectureq Support spend reductionq Unlimited License Amendment exit analysisManaged License Support Servicesq On-going monitoringq Unlimited audit support House of Brick Technologies.24
Other Oracle Licensing ResourcesNavigating Oracle Audits – 2 August, ts/The Sound of Silence: Celebrating the Three Year Anniversary of the Dismissal of Mars v. Oracle – 16 -v-oracle/VMware Virtualization and the Oracle Audit: What Every Oracle Customer Needs to Know About the "Installedand/or Running" Language of the Processor Definition 6 July, 2017 – Tactical Law GroupMars v. Oracle: Learn About Oracle Audits from the Experts & deoplayer/22501 VMworld 2018 U.S – HoB, Crowell & Moringhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v 4OHFO5T MIE&feature youtu.be VMworld 2017 U.S. – HoB, Arent FoxOracle on VMware Customer Experience Panel – VMworld U.S.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v B7QPvTjnNgo 2014https://www.youtube.com/watch?v KreFutmwGZs 2013 House of Brick Technologies.25
CopyrightThis presentation’s Oracle licensing section is Copyright 2019 House of Brick Technologies LLC andis the intellectual property of House of Brick Technologies, LLC. Oracle documents referenced arecopyright Oracle Corporation. Quotes from Oracle documents are per U.S. copyright law fair usedoctrine. House of Brick team members are not attorneys. You are encouraged to validate yourcontractual obligations and privileges with legal counsel. Permission is granted for this material tobe shared within your organization, provided that this copyright statement appears on thereproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the copyright owner.To otherwise disseminate or to republish requires written permission from the copyright owner. House of Brick Technologies.26
House of Brick’s VMworld SessionsMars v. Oracle –Oracle AuditsScottish Gov’tVMC on AWSLicensing Oracle& SQL Serveron vSphereSQL ServerArchitecture onvSphereShared VMDKfor SQL ServerWithout RDMsPresented by NathanBiggs, CEO (HoB); ArtBeeman, Partner(Crowell & Moring)Presented by Nick Walter,Principal Architect (HoB);Neill Smith, Head of ITInfrastructure (ScottishGovernment)Presented by DaveWelch CTO (HoB); ScottSalyer, Director GlobalSystems EngineeringEnablement (VMware)Tuesday, August 272:30 pm – 3:30 pmPANELPanelist: Shawn Meyers,Principal Architect (HoB);Presented by ShawnMeyers, Principal Architect(HoB); Rob Girard, PrincipalTechnical Mkt Engineer(Tintri by DDN)Wednesday, August 2811:00 am – 12:00 pmMonday August 263:30 pm – 4:30 pmTuesday, August 2711:30 am – 12:30 pmMeet the Experts Sessions House of Brick Technologies.Tuesday, August 275:30 pm – 6:30 pmNavigating Oracle AuditsTues. August 27 5:15 pm - 6:00 pmDave Welch, CTOLicensing Oracle on VMware Cloud on AWSWed. August 28 10:00 am - 10:45 amNathan Biggs, CEO27
ContactDave Welch – CTO, Chief Evangelist dwelch@houseofbrick.com 1 402.445.0764 x121Jim Ogborn – VP Client Solutions jogborn@houseofbrick.com 1 402.445.0764 x104 House of Brick Technologies.28
Standing on the simple Oraclecontract terms is safe. House of Brick Technologies.29
Call to Action House of Brick Technologies30
Question & Answer House of Brick Technologies.31
Licensing Oracle & SQL Server on vSphere Presented by Dave Welch CTO (HoB); Scott Salyer, Director Global Systems Engineering Enablement (VMware ) Tuesday, August 27 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Meet the Experts Sessions Navigating Oracle Audits Tues. August 27 5:15 pm - 6:00 pm Dave Welch, CTO Licensing Oracle on VMware Cloud on AWS
