RE: The cost of Oracle in AWS

Our data center is exploring IBM’s IaaS as an option to host infrastructure. IBM has told them that they are a Platinum partner of Oracle and that they would support our RAC environments deployed on Oracle’s VMs on LINUX. So, if a software product, RAC in this case, is not certified by Oracle to run on third-party clouds then how are these vendors making these claims openly?

Thanks
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Gerald Venzl Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2018 12:18 AM To: knecht.stefan_at_gmail.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: Re: The cost of Oracle in AWS

Certified is an understatement in this case. It’s not supported at all on Azure, full stop:

4) Apart from licensing, can RAC be supported on Third-Party Clouds? Answer: As the licensing restriction documented above currently restricts the use of Oracle RAC in either Amazon’s AWS or Microsoft Windows Azure or any other ThirdParty Cloud for this matter, Oracle has ceased any supportability evaluation of ThirdParty Clouds for Oracle RAC in general. That said, the lack of natively provided shared storage in addition to certain network restrictions that would need to be worked around on most Third-Party Clouds currently prevent Oracle from supporting any Third-Party Cloud for Oracle RAC presently and regardless of technical feasibility.

Thx,

Gerald Venzl | Senior Principal Product Manager Email: gerald.venzl_at_oracle.com<mailto:gerald.venzl_at_oracle.com> | Phone: +1.650.633.0085<tel:+16506330085> Oracle ST & Database Development
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On Jan 25, 2018, at 06:09, Stefan Knecht <knecht.stefan_at_gmail.com<mailto:knecht.stefan_at_gmail.com>> wrote:

One thing not to be disregarded is the usual implication of running RAC on any non-Oracle virtualized platform is that it's not officially certified by Oracle. Depending on your client, that may be the end of discussion right there and then.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/options/clustering/overview/rac-cloud-support-2843861.pdf

"The Oracle Cloud is currently the only cloud offering certified and supported to run Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) databases."

Stefan

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