Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

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

Describes how to choose Bring Your Own License to your Autonomous Database instance.
Note

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

The License type field on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console Autonomous Database Information tab shows when you enable the Bring Your Own License (BYOL) option. This field shows your license type 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 choose Bring Your Own License for your Autonomous Database instance:

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

    Select Enable Bring Your Own License (BYOL) to bring existing database software licenses to the database cloud service when your organization already owns Oracle database software licenses.

    When you select Bring your own license (BYOL) you also specify the Oracle Database Edition. The Oracle Database Edition you specify is based on the licenses you bring to Autonomous Database and determines the values that you can select for the ECPU count.

    Choose one of: Oracle Database Enterprise Edition (EE) or Oracle Database Standard Edition (SE).

    Oracle Database Edition Description
    Oracle Database Enterprise Edition (EE) You have two options, depending on whether you select Enable BYOL ECPU limit and set the number of ECPUs to be covered by BYOL (we call this the BYOL ECPU limit option and this option is either selected or deselected):

    • BYOL ECPU limit selected:

      When you select this option you set a BYOL ECPU limit for your BYOL licenses. The value you specify indicates how many licenses to use from your existing Enterprise Edition licenses. That is, the BYOL ECPU limit indicates how many of your existing licenses you are bringing to the Autonomous Database instance. The BYOL ECPU limit you specify indicates how many ECPUs will be covered by the Enterprise Edition licenses you bring. Any ECPU usage beyond the BYOL ECPU limit will not by covered by BYOL licenses.

    • BYOL ECPU limit deselected:

      For this license type the maximum allowed value for ECPU count is 512, however you may contact your Oracle account team to request more ECPUs. With compute auto scaling enabled you can use up to ECPU count x 3 ECPUs. For example, if you set the ECPU count to 512, you can use up to 1,536 ECPUs.
    Oracle Database Standard Edition (SE)

    For this license type the maximum allowed value for ECPU count is 32. With compute auto scaling enabled you can use up to ECPU count x 3 ECPUs. This license restricts the number of ECPUs you can use to a maximum of 32 ECPUs, with or without compute auto scaling enabled.
  3. Click Save.

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 Update license and Oracle Database edition:

  • If you try to switch to Bring Your Own License (BYOL) Standard Edition when the base ECPU count is above 32, you see the following message:

    You cannot select Oracle Database Standard Edition unless your ECPU count is a total of sixteen (32) or less ECPUs. Use the Manage Scaling option to adjust your ECPU count before changing to Standard Edition.

    In this case, lower your ECPU 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) and select Standard Edition when the base ECPU count is 32 and compute auto scaling is enabled, you see the following message:

    Compute auto scaling will be disabled with a base ECPU count of 32, under an Oracle Database Standard Edition license.

    In this case, Compute auto scaling is disabled and the ECPU count is set to 32.

  • If you select Enable Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and Standard Edition when the base ECPU count is below 32 and above 8, with compute auto scaling enabled, you see the following message:

    Your compute auto scaling maximum will be set to 32 ECPUs, under an Oracle Database Standard Edition license.

    In this case, the maximum number of ECPUs with compute auto scaling is 32.

  • See Elastic Pool Notes for information on BYOL usage with an instance that is in an elastic pool.

  • The BYOL ECPU limit you set on an Autonomous Data Guard Primary database does not apply to a cross-region or cross-tenancy Autonomous Data Guard Standby database. On a cross-region or cross-tenancy Standby you can independently set the BYOL ECPU limit, as required.

    See Autonomous Data Guard Notes for information on BYOL usage with Autonomous Data Guard.

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