Licensing with Oracle

I currently run Oracle 8.0.5 on a HPUX 10.20
I am looking into Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition Optimized for Oracle 8i. Eventhough this is an open source server, what type of support would this list reccomend. The server that I looked at comes with a 3yr warrenty. Do I need to get Oracle support with Linix and what about support for Linix.
Any suggestions are more than welcomed.
Thanks

I can answer part of your question. We have been researching this, and I think the following is accurate. We've check with our sales guys, as well as whatever docs we could find.
1. Oracle database must be licensed for the number of CORES allocated to the VM. You do NOT have to license all cores in the servers. And you have to be careful about the defintion of "cores", too. For example, my new 2-socket server has 6 cores per sockets, but 2 hyperthreads per core. So, my Oracle VM configuration shows 24 "virtual CPUs". But there are 2 virtual CPUs per core, so if you have a 4-CPU VM, that's 4 hyperthreads, which is only TWO cores.
2. From what I can tell, you CANNOT use HA or even live migration with standard database licensing. (This is a marketing ploy to sell RAC, apparently.) Moreover, Your VMs must be "CPU PINNED", meaning that specific virtual CPU numbers are dedicated to the VM. This therefore prevents you from overcommitting CPUs to your resident VMs. I find all of this distasteful, but that's the rule, as best we can tell.
3. It's allowable to shutdown a Oracle database VM, and restart it on another physical server, again assuming the VM is dedicated to specific CPUs, and those CPUs are not being used by other VMs on the machine you want to restart on.

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