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

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 09:30:57 -0800
Message-ID: <CAORjz=OUSA_0atkpzUG=0QhyO8ERbcx+QhMEw0-D-zRdCqjK0Q_at_mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Mark J. Bobak <mark_at_bobak.net> wrote:

>
> - availability of preinstall package
> (oracle-rdbms-server-12cR1-preinstall) to very quickly set up almost all
> prerequisites in one easy step
>

This can be done on RedHat as well, should you go that route. Doing so requires a bit of work, but makes subsequent installs easier.

> - ASMLib kernel module is built in to UEK, and Other ASMLib pacakages
> available via yum.
>

Assuming that ASMLib is used.

And BTW, if you go to a non-Oracle version of Linux that is based on RedHat 6.x+, be sure to disable transparent huge pages.

*ALERT: Disable Transparent HugePages on SLES11, RHEL6, OL6 and UEK2 Kernels (Doc ID 1557478.1)*

Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Principal Consultant at Pythian
Pythian Blog http://www.pythian.com/blog/author/still/ Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com

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