Re: Moveing to Linux for Windows - Choose Oracle Linux?
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 08:55:28 -0800
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Thank you all for your input. Now what is your opinion on Linux Basic support or the Premier support? They only difference I can tell is that the Premier gets us zero downtime patches. We are not a 24/7 shop so not sure if that is necessary. If you think it highly recommended still do you recommend it for Test/Dev and Production so they are the same. Or are the patches 100% the same just one doesn't require a reboot?
Side note. For a couple boxes we have to install Oracle VM, not on production though. One because we need to partition it to a single CPU license for our standby site. And another because we are going to eventually get RAC for production and dev. So to avoid costs for Dev we are going to vm that into two servers.
Thanks again.
Jeff
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 12:09 AM, Stefan Koehler <contact_at_soocs.de> wrote:
> Hi Mladen,
>
> > In RH7.x, as well as OL7.x and all other Red Hat Linux derivatives, XFS
> is the default file system. What is included in that XFS support? I have OL
> > 7.2 and there is nothing special about XFS.
>
> XFS is the default file system for OEL 7.x / RH 7.x, but this does not
> mean that it is certified / supported by Oracle for its RDBMS software
> "out-of-the-box". The official Oracle documentation also states this for
> OEL 6.x and 7.x:
>
> - http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E37355/html/ol_about_xfs.html:
> "You must have an Oracle Linux Premier Support account to obtain technical
> support for XFS with Oracle Linux. The XFS file system is supported for the
> Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 (2.6.39) and the Unbreakable
> Enterprise Kernel Release 3 (3.8.13) on the x86_64 architecture only."
>
> - http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/027617.pdf
> "Oracle Linux customers with Premier Support subscriptions can receive
> support for XFS on Oracle Linux 6 no additional charge. Beginning with
> Oracle
> Linux 7, XFS is the default file system and is included with Basic and
> Premier Support subscriptions, at no additional charge. This support
> includes
> both the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) and the Red Hat compatible
> kernel. For the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel, you must use Release 2 or
> higher."
>
> All details could also be found in MOS ID #1632127.1.
>
>
> > XFS is not an advanced, snapshot capable file system like zfs, btrfs,
> acfs or NTFS.
>
> With XFS we are talking more about scalability and performance on Linux,
> not about snapshots or something like that.
>
> Best Regards
> Stefan Koehler
>
> Freelance Oracle performance consultant and researcher
> Homepage: http://www.soocs.de
> Twitter: _at_OracleSK
>
> > Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com> hat am 12. Dezember 2015 um
> 22:45 geschrieben:
> >
> > Hi Stefan,
> > In RH7.x, as well as OL7.x and all other Red Hat Linux derivatives, XFS
> > is the default file system. What is included in that XFS support? I have
> > OL 7.2 and there is nothing special about XFS:
> >
> > oracle_at_rac1 ~]$ mount |grep ' / '
> > /dev/mapper/ol-root on / type xfs (rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota)
> > [oracle_at_rac1 ~]$ cat /etc/oracle-release
> > Oracle Linux Server release 7.2
> > [oracle_at_rac1 ~]$
> >
> > All of the XFS programs are included by default installation:
> >
> > oracle_at_rac1 ~]$ rpm -qa|grep xfs
> > xfsdump-3.1.4-1.el7.x86_64
> > xfsprogs-3.2.2-2.el7.x86_64
> >
> > Nobody asked me for any special support contract. As far as I know,
> > that's all there is to it. XFS is not an advanced, snapshot capable file
> > system like zfs, btrfs, acfs or NTFS.
> >
> > --
> > Mladen Gogala
> > Oracle DBA
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