Re: Moveing to Linux for Windows - Choose Oracle Linux?

From: Stefan Koehler <contact_at_soocs.de>
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 10:06:16 +0100 (CET)
Message-ID: <631518531.1224588.1449911176454.JavaMail.open-xchange_at_app09.ox.hosteurope.de>

Hi guys,
i am not quite sure where i should have mentioned the vendor support topic - support can be as good or as bad as with any OS vendor ;-)

The only thing that i have said is that OEL is a very good choice as it is already pre-configured for RDBMS (e.g. I/O scheduler or memory options like disabled transparent huge pages, etc.), if Jeff's company is going to move to Linux and they are not very familiar with it yet.

In addition if his company is going to purchase support (ULN), they get additional benefits with OEL (only) like:

- DTrace (not as great as DTrace on Solaris, but it's ok)
- Ksplice (with  Premier Support only afaik) 
- XFS file system support
 

Best Regards
Stefan Koehler

Freelance Oracle performance consultant and researcher Homepage: http://www.soocs.de
Twitter: _at_OracleSK  

> Adric Norris <landstander668_at_gmail.com> hat am 11. Dezember 2015 um 21:28 geschrieben:
>
> +1000
>
> Full disclaimer... I'm Ryan's colleague, and opened the 6+ month train wreck of a production-data-corruption SR (with reproducible test case
> provided on day one) which he alluded to. Fun times.
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Ryan January <rjanuary_at_gmail.com <mailto:rjanuary_at_gmail.com> > wrote:
> > > Stephan,
> > I understand this works great in theory, however as a full stack Oracle customer (from the hardware up) I have to say it doesn't work that way
> > in practice.
> > We recently had an RDBMS bug that was exposed through GoldenGate functionality. The back and forth between both business units and Oracle
> > Support was maddening.
> > After fingers were pointed at each BU for months we tried getting our reps involved, however they only 'had pull' with respect to their
> > division and were of little external assistance. That resulted in a lot of 'we'll get back with you' and finger pointing.
> >
> > Nothing would please me more to agree with you, but I know too many people with similar stories.
> >
> >
> > > On Dec 11, 2015, at 1:19 PM, Stefan Koehler <contact_at_soocs.de <mailto:contact_at_soocs.de> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Jeff,
> > > good move :) imo there is absolutely no good technical reason to run Oracle RDBMS on Windows. The only (valid) reason for doing this, could
> > > be the
> > > in-house knowledge of the OS team - that's it.
> > >
> > > However Oracle Linux is also a very good choice - especially if you are not very familiar with Linux yet. Oracle Linux (UEK) is optimized for
> > > Oracle
> > > and already got good default settings for running RDBMS (e.g. I/O scheduler or memory options like disabled transparent huge pages, etc.). If
> > > you
> > > choose another distribution, you have to do all of this on your own.
> > >
> > > Good luck :)
> > >
> > > Best Regards
> > > Stefan Koehler
> > >
> > > Freelance Oracle performance consultant and researcher
> > > Homepage: http://www.soocs.de
> > > Twitter: _at_OracleSK
 

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