Re: EXTERNAL: OT: Linux vendor survey results
From: Don Seiler <don_at_seiler.us>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 12:22:21 -0600
Message-ID: <CAHJZqBAOC0unJYwP3S=peBDHvtEwbB4Hk1WtU53PaYYqNAzqKg_at_mail.gmail.com>
I can also say that OEL/UEK contains some fixes that aren't available in RHEL. In my case it was that Oracle UEK had a complete re-write of the OFA module (open fabric). The RHEL version of this module causes DirectNFS to choke on Infiniband. Oracle is not sharing their re-write back to RH since they say it's proprietary. However we're still on RHEL so we had to abandon our Infiniband plans.
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 12:22:21 -0600
Message-ID: <CAHJZqBAOC0unJYwP3S=peBDHvtEwbB4Hk1WtU53PaYYqNAzqKg_at_mail.gmail.com>
I can also say that OEL/UEK contains some fixes that aren't available in RHEL. In my case it was that Oracle UEK had a complete re-write of the OFA module (open fabric). The RHEL version of this module causes DirectNFS to choke on Infiniband. Oracle is not sharing their re-write back to RH since they say it's proprietary. However we're still on RHEL so we had to abandon our Infiniband plans.
Don.
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Paul Houghton < Paul.Houghton_at_admin.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > However for the third question I am surprised that 62% favor Oracle
> Linux.
>
> Another reason to favour Oracle Linux is (I understand) you have to use
> OVM (Oracle Virtualised Machine) for virtualisation if you are relying on
> per processor licensing and have licensed less than the number of CPUs in
> the host server.
>
>
-- Don Seiler http://www.seiler.us -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Fri Dec 06 2013 - 19:22:21 CET