Re: Linux

From: Tim Hall <tim_at_oracle-base.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 17:31:55 +0100
Message-ID: <CAP=5zEiqU7KJX68ogDMr4NUEm1Gs5F_5E5xtrdZYgv0YH+9JKA_at_mail.gmail.com>



Hi.

My understanding is they only support Oracle products under KVM, where the base Linux installation running KVM is Oracle Linux. Hence Oracle Linux KVM. They've supported KVM as part of Oracle Linux for ages, because it's part of the upstream distribution

Similar to them only supporting Oracle products on Docker, if the host server is running Oracle Linux, UEK and the container runtime supplied through the Oracle repos etc.

Cheers

Tim...

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 4:56 PM Noveljic Nenad <nenad.noveljic_at_vontobel.com> wrote:

> What does “Oracle Linux KVM” exactly mean:
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> 1. there is some special KVM distribution for OL,
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> 2. or the hard partitioning rules apply for KVM only when used on OL?
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> Best regards,
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> Nenad
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> https://nenadnoveljic.com/blog/
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> *From:* niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Mittwoch, 16. Oktober 2019 17:32
> *To:* Tim Hall <tim_at_oracle-base.com>
> *Cc:* Noveljic Nenad <nenad.noveljic_at_vontobel.com>; Oracle-L Freelists <
> oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Linux
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> Wow - that's up to date. Looks like it was changed on Friday!
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> 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.
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> On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 12:44 PM Tim Hall <tim_at_oracle-base.com> wrote:
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> One more point about KVM, that a friend just posted on Twitter.
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> Oracle have now updated their hard-partitioning rules to include KVM.
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> https://www.oracle.com/assets/partitioning-070609.pdf
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> Cheers
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> Tim...
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> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 9:39 AM Noveljic Nenad <
> nenad.noveljic_at_vontobel.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> I consolidated the received feedbacks below – this summary could, perhaps,
> be helpful to someone else standing at the same junction.
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> OS: OL7 seems to be a general consensus.
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> Virtualization:
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> 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:
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> - VMWare:
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> + positive experience
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> + good support
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> – license costs
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> - OVM:
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> + free of charge
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> + some financial benefits when moving to Oracle Cloud
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> - unpredictable behavior
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> - lack of general knowledge
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> - bad support
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> - not strategic by Oracle, as it was replaced by KVM in the latest Exadata.
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> - KVM:
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> + free of charge
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> + recommended by Oracle
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> - Hyper-V
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> - it doesn’t seem to be widely used with Oracle databases.
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> 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.
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> Best regards,
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> Nenad
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> https://nenadnoveljic.com/blog/
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