So I have started managing medium sized collection of Linux servers that are all RedHat. Most are physical although they are completely idle. Because of licensing issues we cannot add them to our VMware farm. They are all oracle DB or middle ware hosts.
However Oracle makes and exception to their horrible licensing for their Visualization product. Oracle VM. This is a XEN hyper-visor with Oracle's cluster file system and a web/command line wrapper around it. I am also considering Oracle Linux. Strangely their RedHat clone is kind of a better deal then RedHat. First of all like CentOS you can run it with out buying support and still get all the patches. The support is a similar price to RedHat but slightly cheaper. And they seem to be supporting older versions of RedHat with more backports of code. Their licensing deal holds for OVM too. So while Oracle is clearly the work of the devil I am tempted here as it solves a lot of problems for me. What do you Linux admins out there think about this? I would rather move towards a more open stack but the place I work is very into large monolithic support contracts. It seems like Oracle Linux is Oracle's internal platform of choice. Anybody ever used it much? Or better yet dealt with their and RedHat's support? I just spend a whole day dealing with RedHat licensing. Not sure Oracle will be any better but at least with Oracle I don't need a license to run a machine I don't want support with. Thanks for taking the time to think about it. I am interested in the OVM not just cause it will get ride of a couple of racks of servers but Xen is clearly the OSS contender in the Virt game and I have only play on VMware. Thanks, Chris _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
