Re: Linux

Wow - that's up to date. Looks like it was changed on Friday!

Nit though. I strongly suspect that the reason they refer throughout to Oracle Linux KVM is that they mean exactly that. Otherwise, they'd use KVM.

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 12:44 PM Tim Hall <tim_at_oracle-base.com> wrote:

> One more point about KVM, that a friend just posted on Twitter.
>
> Oracle have now updated their hard-partitioning rules to include KVM.
>
> https://www.oracle.com/assets/partitioning-070609.pdf
>
> Cheers
>
> Tim...
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 9:39 AM Noveljic Nenad <
> nenad.noveljic_at_vontobel.com> wrote:
>
>> First of all, thank you very much for your invaluable inputs. They have
>> definitely helped us to define our stack – we’ll start with OL7 and KVM.
>>
>>
>>
>> I consolidated the received feedbacks below – this summary could,
>> perhaps, be helpful to someone else standing at the same junction.
>>
>>
>>
>> OS: OL7 seems to be a general consensus.
>>
>>
>>
>> Virtualization:
>>
>> What came up is that almost any virtualization software would work and
>> it’s, therefore, best to choose the product with the best in-house support.
>> Find below the pros and cons for different products:
>>
>> - VMWare:
>>
>> + positive experience
>>
>> + good support
>>
>> – license costs
>>
>> - OVM:
>>
>> + free of charge
>>
>> + some financial benefits when moving to Oracle Cloud
>>
>> - unpredictable behavior
>>
>> - lack of general knowledge
>>
>> - bad support
>>
>> - not strategic by Oracle, as it was replaced by KVM in the latest
>> Exadata.
>>
>> - KVM:
>>
>> + free of charge
>>
>> + recommended by Oracle
>>
>> - Hyper-V
>>
>> - it doesn’t seem to be widely used with Oracle databases.
>>
>>
>>
>> ACFS: There weren’t many feedbacks about ACFS, which might indicate that
>> this product isn’t widely used. It would be awesome, if more people could
>> share their experiences.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Nenad
>>
>>
>>
>> https://nenadnoveljic.com/blog/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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