Minimum Users

FlexNet Manager Suite 2023 R1 (On-Premises)

The minimum number of Oracle users required by this license.

It is best practice to leave these settings as configured by the Oracle license templates shipped with the Product Use Rights Library (PURL) for Oracle. If you are creating a license manually, enter or dial up the minimum number of Oracle users specified in the license agreement with Oracle. This value depends at least on the product, the edition, and where the product is running, so check the license terms carefully. For example, at time of writing:

• Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 running on-premises requires a minimum of 10 NUP entitlements. Matching settings are:
  • Minimum users = 10
  • Minimum users type = Per server.
• The same Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 running in the cloud (with an approved cloud service provider) requires 10 NUP entitlements for every 8 vCPUs or part thereof (and this edition may only be licensed on a cloud instance up to 16 vCPUs). Here the Minimum users values is again 10, but you also need to complete an additional field on the Use rights & rules tab of these same license properties (see License Consumption Rules for details of the Number of vCPUs per server for NUP minimums field, which defines the coverage of vCPUs provided by this minimum number of NUP entitlements). Settings are:
  • Minimum users = 10
  • Minimum users type = Per server
  • Number of vCPUs per server for NUP minimums (on the Use rights & rules tab) = 8.
• Oracle Database Enterprise Edition running on-premises requires a minimum of 25 NUP entitlements per processor core, such that a single processor with 4 cores requires 100 NUP entitlements in this case (if the Oracle-defined factor for the type of processor is 1 — other processors may have other values, such as an Intel processor with a factor of 0.5). Matching settings are:
  • Minimum users = 25
  • Minimum users type = Per processor core.
• Oracle Database Enterprise Edition running on an instance provided by your cloud service provider also requires knowledge of hyper-threading on the cloud instance: if hyper-threading is enabled, every two vCPUs require an NUP entitlement; and if hyper-threading is not in use, each vCPU requires its own NUP entitlement (notice that the count of vCPUs for an inventory device is shown as the Threads property on the Hardware tab of its properties). The minimum of 25 NUP entitlements also applies.
  • Minimum users = 25
  • Minimum users type = Per processor core, noticing that when hyper-threading is enabled, each 2 vCPUs will be interpreted as 1 core for licensing purposes
  • Metric (also on this Identification tab) = Number of cores (for the Enterprise Edition, and notice that the Oracle Processor Core Factor Table is then used to factor this into the licensable number of cores).

Use zero for a license with no minimum number of Oracle users. If you set a minimum license requirement, this becomes the lower limit of consumption on this license.

Only available for Oracle Named User Plus licenses.