Re: CentOS instead of RHEL?

Hi,

If you're going to run mainly Oracle products on these machines, why don't you use Oracle Linux instead? https://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos/

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Maris Elsins




On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 12:30 AM Clay Jackson (cjackson) <
Clay.Jackson_at_quest.com> wrote:



> We OCCASIONALLY get customers running CentOS (for Foglight or SharePlex)


> trying to run Oracle.

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> I had one customer try to load the Oracle 10 client (For testing Foglight

> monitoring a database running on an RHEL server) have significant issues

> with missing libraries or bad versions of libraries.   They eventually went

> back and reinstalled CentOS and selected “install everything”, which seemed

> to clear up the problem.

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> Bottom line, I wouldn’t trust ANY Oracle products on CentOS.

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> *Clay Jackson*

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> Database Solutions Sales Engineer

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> clay.jackson_at_quest.com

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> *office*  949-754-1203  *mobile* 425-802-9603

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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org <oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org> *On

> Behalf Of *Herring, David

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> Today one of my leaders approached our team informing us that our sysadm

> team was planning on migrating from RHEL to CentOS and wanted to know if we

> knew of any issues running Oracle products on CentOS.  As any good DBA

> would do when presented with this, I checked certifications in MOS and

> couldn't find anything that explicitly listed CentOS.  So I assumed that

> some flavors of Linux are just dumped under the grouping "Redhat" but just

> to be sure I opened an SR.

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> Oracle came back with:

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> *Remember, CentOS and Scientific Linux, both of which are clones of RHEL

> (like Oracle Linux), are not supported by Oracle for the database and

> WebLogic installations, so you CAN NOT use these. You can happily use them

> for non-Oracle installations though. CentOS is similar to Oracle Linux.

> Free to use, but you can choose to pay for support. Therefore; it is not

> the same and is not certified and we do not test on it. If there is an

> issue, Oracle Support does not support it.*

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> Seems pretty clear to me - not supported so there's no way we'd allow

> hundreds of complex production envs be migrated to CentOS.  But I have a

> hard time believing the sysadm team (outsourced and we're just 1 of many

> clients they support) would not have come across this issue already.  So

> there's nothing to read into/between lines on this one - no support.

> Right?  No one out there (unless living on the edge) is running Oracle on

> CentOS in production?  Just doing a double-tap to make sure.

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> Regards,

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> Dave

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