Nick, I had done an investigation on what it would taken for OpenManage to officially support OEL. Our determination was that it would take little to no code changes. The real effort would be additional testing on the distributions, support channels, etc. Several releases ago (6.1?) we removed code that attempted to prevent customers from using OM on OEL, Cent, or any of the distributions that are not officially supported. OpenManage on OEL is not "officially" supported. But as pointed out by others, OEL is compatible with RHEL. There are other customers who are running various OM components on OEL, but I do not have a definitive list of the specific components.
Sorry that I could not give you feedback that was not any less "vague" than the other feedback you had received. If you are worried about support, I would expect that most issues you encounter on OEL will also be present on RHEL. If you run into issues on OEL, reproduce it on RHEL, then take it to tech support. Wayne Weilnau Systems Management Technologist Dell | OpenManage Software Development Please consider the environment before printing this email. Confidentiality Notice | This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential or proprietary information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, immediately contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. -----Original Message----- From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of Nick Lunt Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 7:53 AM To: [email protected]; linux-poweredge-Lists Subject: RE: Oracle Enterprise Linux > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 24 November 2010 13:52 > To: [email protected] > Cc: Nick Lunt; [email protected] > Subject: RE: Oracle Enterprise Linux > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Small > > Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 1:18 PM > > > > Err, actually since the latest OEL 5 release uses the 2.6.32 > > kernel (same as RHEL6), but the userspace is largely RHEL5, > > you are likely to hit some packaging/repository issues when > > using the Dell RHEL6 on it, I'd guess. > > > > http://lwn.net/Articles/406242/ > > Actually, AFAIK, OEL5 remains at kernel 2.6.18 even in update 5. > > However, if you choose to use the new Oracle Unbreakable Kernel - a > separate channel in ULN - you will get a much newer kernel based on 2.6.32 > with specific changes related to infiniband, SSD storage and more > efficient "RPC" calls (SPD?). > > Everything is still supposed to run as-is and binary compat with RedHat > remains. > Chris. Thanks for your responses folks, but 'should be' and 'almost the same' etc isn't good enough for us. The press release pointed to by Tim is also pretty vague. As no one from Dell has answered the question I'll raise a support call about it and update this mailing list with the results of that. Thanks again, Nick . __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5645 (20101124) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
