[rhelv6-list] info on Oracle and ASMLib and ocfs2 for RH EL 6

[Musayev, Ilya]

I'm sure you know "Oracle/Unbreakable Linux".

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.

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From: rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Gianluca Cecchi
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 6:29 AM
To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) discussion mailing-list
Subject: [rhelv6-list] info on Oracle and ASMLib and ocfs2 for RH EL 6

Hello,
in August Red Hat submitted Oracle 11gR2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Certification Test Results to Oracle:
http://www.redhat.com/about/news/blog/Red-Hat-Submits-Oracle-11gR2-on-Red-Hat-Enterprise-Linux-6-Certification-Test-Results-to-Oracle

At the end of September I also sent an e-mail to the Oracle address provided inside the article, receiving this kind of answer:

"
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.
"

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).
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...

I landed to this Novell blog entry page that creates some sort of more concern abut the overall matter:
http://www.novell.com/communities/node/13143/oracle-support-documents-underline-reasons-choose-sles-11-oracle-installations

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?
Furthermore ASM is going to become the only supported storage infrastructure in the future for Oracle RDBMS....
The same question for ocfs2-tools

Thanks in advance,
Gianluca
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