Empower license requirements for RAC, Dataguard, or RAC + Dataguard deployments - WKB78406

ENVIRONMENT

• Empower
• RAC (Real Application Cluster)
• Dataguard
• RAC + Dataguard
• Oracle
• High Availability License (HA)
• High Availability Architecture (HAA)

ANSWER

RAC, Dataguard, or RAC + Dataguard deployments, also called High Availability Architecture (HAA), require separate Oracle licensing and administration, which the customer must provide. See Enterprise HA license FAQ.

• The HAA must be installed, configured, and licensed with the required Oracle licenses first.
• It is the customers responsibility to have onsite expertise to deploy and manage the HAA
• The Empower Application is installed and licensed after the HAA is correctly configured and available.
• Empower HA license is no longer required for each replicate database.
• Typically HAA consists of a primary configuration and one or more replicate databases.
• The primary configuration receives all of the required Empower licenses, including base license, user and options.
• RAC only deployments do not require an Empower HA license.
• The HAA configuration including the failover settings are the customer responsibility. Empower has no settings for the failover and only requires the TNSNAMES.ORA to be correctly configured.
• Failover is managed by Oracle and the Oracle settings.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

See the Informatics Licensing FAQ and Enterprise HA license FAQ.

You can only apply 1 HA license, but must purchase an HA license for each replicate/standby database server.