Re: The cost of Oracle in AWS

Is it IBM that would "support" the environment, or Oracle?

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 9:57 PM, Hameed, Amir <Amir.Hameed_at_xerox.com> wrote:

> But your statement negates what Stefan had initially posted, doesn’t it?
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> "The Oracle Cloud is currently the only cloud offering certified and
> supported to run Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) databases."
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> *From:* Matthew Parker [mailto:dimensional.dba_at_comcast.net]
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 25, 2018 9:38 AM
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> IBM runs the instances on UEL OVM which is supported.
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_
> freelists.org <oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org>] *On Behalf Of *Hameed, Amir
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 25, 2018 5:32 AM
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> *Subject:* RE: The cost of Oracle in AWS
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> Our data center is exploring IBM’s IaaS as an option to host
> infrastructure. IBM has told them that they are a Platinum partner of
> Oracle and that they would support our RAC environments deployed on
> Oracle’s VMs on LINUX. So, if a software product, RAC in this case, is not
> certified by Oracle to run on third-party clouds then how are these vendors
> making these claims openly?
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> Thanks
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_
> freelists.org <oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org>] *On Behalf Of *Gerald Venzl
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 25, 2018 12:18 AM
> *To:* knecht.stefan_at_gmail.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> *Subject:* Re: The cost of Oracle in AWS
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> Certified is an understatement in this case.
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> It’s not supported at all on Azure, full stop:
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> *4) Apart from licensing, can RAC be supported on Third-Party Clouds?*
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> *Answer: As the licensing restriction documented above currently restricts
> the use of Oracle RAC in either Amazon’s AWS or Microsoft Windows Azure or
> any other ThirdParty Cloud for this matter, Oracle has ceased any
> supportability evaluation of ThirdParty Clouds for Oracle RAC in general.
> That said, the lack of natively provided shared storage in addition to
> certain network restrictions that would need to be worked around on most
> Third-Party Clouds currently prevent Oracle from supporting any Third-Party
> Cloud for Oracle RAC presently and regardless of technical feasibility. *
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> Thx,
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> On Jan 25, 2018, at 06:09, Stefan Knecht <knecht.stefan_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> One thing not to be disregarded is the usual implication of running RAC on
> any non-Oracle virtualized platform is that it's not officially certified
> by Oracle. Depending on your client, that may be the end of discussion
> right there and then.
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> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/options/
> clustering/overview/rac-cloud-support-2843861.pdf
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> "The Oracle Cloud is currently the only cloud offering certified and
> supported to run Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) databases."
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> Stefan
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