Yes, but as Oracle is saying that when you run on VMWare, you may only look at the hardware, is it then to be considered as a cluster? Freek D'Hooge Uptime Oracle Database Administrator email: freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx tel +32(0)3 451 23 82 http://www.uptime.be disclaimer: www.uptime.be/disclaimer -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Niall Litchfield Sent: vrijdag 21 oktober 2011 10:22 To: sebastian.kolski@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Licensing Oracle SE One on VMWare cluster I thought Michael was both clear and correct. You can't run RAC SE as you describe because the cluster has more than 4 sockets. The cluster is the normal definition of cluster - that is the group of machines working together to provide services transparently. It most definitely doesn't refer to individual resources within the cluster - such as a RAC instance. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l