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Maximum Sockets

Where a license imposes an upper limit on the number of processor sockets installed on the server (or VM host), type (or spin up) the limit. Use a value of zero to represent unlimited.

Some typical values for various editions of Oracle Database (11g) are shown below.

EditionMaximum SocketsMetric
Enterprise EditionUnlimitedNumber of Cores
Standard Edition4Number of Sockets
Standard One Edition2Number of Sockets
Personal1Number of Sockets

This control is only available for Oracle Named User Plus , and Oracle Processor licenses.