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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I’m sure you know “Oracle/Unbreakable Linux”.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I’m soon to be in the same boat as you
are. There is a chance oracle may OK the usage of RHEL6 but I doubt it will be
an officially supported OS. Given bitter relationship between RedHat and
Oracle, I doubt you will have any response from RedHat. Try reaching out to
your sales rep.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> rhelv6-list-bounces@redhat.com
[mailto:rhelv6-list-bounces@redhat.com] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Gianluca Cecchi<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, December 14, 2011
6:29 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6</st1:PersonName> (<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Santiago</st1:place></st1:City>)
discussion mailing-list<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [rhelv6-list] info on
Oracle and ASMLib and ocfs2 for RH EL 6</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hello,<br>
in August Red Hat submitted Oracle 11gR2 on <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6</st1:PersonName> Certification Test Results to Oracle:<br>
<a
href="http://www.redhat.com/about/news/blog/Red-Hat-Submits-Oracle-11gR2-on-Red-Hat-Enterprise-Linux-6-Certification-Test-Results-to-Oracle"
target="_blank">http://www.redhat.com/about/news/blog/Red-Hat-Submits-Oracle-11gR2-on-Red-Hat-Enterprise-Linux-6-Certification-Test-Results-to-Oracle</a><br>
<br>
At the end of September I also sent an e-mail to the Oracle address provided
inside the article, receiving this kind of answer:<br>
<br>
" <br>
Gianluca, thanks for the note. Oracle Database certification with RHEL 6 is
under evaluation at this time. We have no further updates at this time.<br>
"<br>
<br>
So does any one in Red Hat know the current status? I suggest every one
interested in having Oracle RDBMS on RH EL 6 to send an e-mail to them (see the
article above).<br>
When possible I try to use other solutions, such as PostgreSQL, but many
infrastructures or ISVs are using Oracle so we have to manage this situation...<br>
<br>
I landed to this Novell blog entry page that creates some sort of more concern
abut the overall matter:<br>
<a
href="http://www.novell.com/communities/node/13143/oracle-support-documents-underline-reasons-choose-sles-11-oracle-installations">http://www.novell.com/communities/node/13143/oracle-support-documents-underline-reasons-choose-sles-11-oracle-installations</a><br>
<br>
So the side question: is there any plan to provide ASMLib kernel module in
standard RH EL 6, as it is GPL sw and Oracle is going to provide it only for
its ULN kernels?<br>
Furthermore ASM is going to become the only supported storage infrastructure in
the future for Oracle RDBMS....<br>
The same question for ocfs2-tools<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance,<br>
Gianluca<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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