Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Choose Bring Your Own License on Autonomous Database (OCPU Compute Model)

Describes how to Bring Your Own License (BYOL) to your Autonomous Database instance.

Note

See Choose Bring Your Own License on Autonomous Database (ECPU Compute Model) if you are using the ECPU compute model.

The License type field shows on the Autonomous Database Information tab when you enable the Bring Your Own License (BYOL) option. This field shows your license and Oracle Database Edition. For example:

License type: Bring Your Own License (BYOL), Enterprise Edition

The Bring Your Own License (BYOL) option is only available for Autonomous Database instances with the Transaction Processing or Data Warehouse workload types.

Perform the following prerequisite steps as necessary:

  • Open the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console by clicking the navigation icon next to Oracle Cloud.

  • From the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure left navigation menu click Oracle Database and then, depending on your workload click one of: Autonomous Data Warehouse, Autonomous JSON Database, or Autonomous Transaction Processing.

  • On the Autonomous Databases page select an Autonomous Database from the links under the Display name column.

To enable or disable Bring Your Own License (BYOL):

  1. On the Details page, from the More actions drop-down list, select Update license and Oracle Database edition.
  2. On the Update license and Oracle Database edition page enable or disable the Bring Your Own License (BYOL) option and select an Oracle Database Edition:

    When you select Enable Bring Your Own License (BYOL), you also choose an Oracle Database Edition. The choices are:

    Oracle Database Enterprise Edition (EE): For this license type the maximum allowed value for OCPU count is 128, however you may contact your Oracle account team to request more than 128 OCPUs. With auto scaling enabled you can use up to OCPU count x 3 OCPUs. For example, if you set the OCPU count to 128, you can use up to 384 OCPUs.

    Oracle Database Standard Edition (SE): For this license type the maximum allowed value for OCPU count is 8. With auto scaling enabled you can use up to OCPU count x 3 OCPUs. This license restricts the number of OCPUs you can use to a maximum of 8 OCPUs, with or without auto scaling enabled.

    The edition you select is based on the licenses you bring to Autonomous Database and changes the maximum value that you can select for the OCPU count.

    See Use Auto Scaling for more information.

  3. Click Save Changes.

While the system applies the changes, the lifecycle state changes to Updating. The database remains up and accessible, there is no downtime while the license type updates. When the operation completes the lifecycle state shows Available.

For information on Bring Your Own License (BYOL) licensing options for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, see the following:

Notes for Update license and Oracle Database Edition:

  • If you select Enable Bring Your Own License (BYOL) with Standard Edition when the base OCPU count is above 8, you see the following message:

    You cannot select Oracle Database Standard Edition unless your OCPU count is a total of eight (8) or less OCPUs. Use the Manage Scaling option to adjust your OCPU count before changing to Standard Edition.

    In this case, lower your OCPU count before you enable Bring Your Own License (BYOL). See Remove CPU or Storage Resources or Disable Auto Scaling for more information.

  • If you select Enable Bring Your Own License (BYOL) with Standard Edition when the base OCPU count is 8 and Compute auto scaling is enabled, you see the following message:

    Compute auto scaling will be disabled with a base OCPU count of 8, under an Oracle Database Standard Edition license.

    In this case, Compute auto scaling is disabled and the OCPU count is set to 8.

  • If you select Enable Bring Your Own License (BYOL) with Standard Edition when the base OCPU count is below 8 and above 2, with Compute auto scaling enabled, you see the following message:

    Your compute auto scaling maximum will be set to 8 OCPUs, under an Oracle Database Standard Edition license.

    In this case, the maximum number of OCPUs with Compute auto scaling enabled is 8.