Oracle Licenses Info

Hello All,
I am having Oracle RAC 11gR2 on AIX 7.1, each node is 10 cores. I am planing to start implementing my DR site.
I already have 20 licenses Oracle Database Enterprise Edition and 20 licenses Real Application clusters and 20 licences Oracle Active Data Guard.
I am planing to start implement my DR site with Oracle data guard.
My question if the DR site is 2 nodes Oracle RAC (each node 10 cores), do I need another new 20 licenses Oracle Database Enterprise Edition and 20 licenses Real Application clusters ?? or this is included in the 20 licences Oracle Active Data Guard that i already have ?
Regards,

Neo-b wrote:
Hello All,
I am having Oracle RAC 11gR2 on AIX 7.1, each node is 10 cores. I am planing to start implementing my DR site.
I already have 20 licenses Oracle Database Enterprise Edition and 20 licenses Real Application clusters and 20 licences Oracle Active Data Guard.
I am planing to start implement my DR site with Oracle data guard.
My question if the DR site is 2 nodes Oracle RAC (each node 10 cores), do I need another new 20 licenses Oracle Database Enterprise Edition and 20 licenses Real Application clusters ?? or this is included in the 20 licences Oracle Active Data Guard that i already have ?
Regards,All questions of license compliance should be directed to Oracle. This site is just a forum of users. If Oracle pulls an audit of your site, you don't want your defense to be "but some stranger on the internet told me ...."
"where did you hear that?"
"On the internet. They can't put anything on the internet that isn't true."
"where did you hear that?"
"On the internet. Oh, here comes my date. I met him on the internet. He's a French model."
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Hi Ar
Some of the answers provided are useful but you will be open to enormous risks if you rely on things like:
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Apps Server & BEA, completely separate way to go about getting info on these..
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I do not know if this the correct place to ask this question.
I want to have some information about Oracle Licenses: If i got an Oracle 11gR2 License for Enterprise edition along with Active Dataguard, Oracle RAC and Partitioning.
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Hi Dezutterm,
I'm not a sales guy, but from how I understand things... you've already figured it out yourself:
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