Today one of my leaders approached our team informing us that our sysadm team
was planning on migrating from RHEL to CentOS and wanted to know if we knew of
any issues running Oracle products on CentOS. As any good DBA would do when
presented with this, I checked certifications in MOS and couldn't find anything
that explicitly listed CentOS. So I assumed that some flavors of Linux are
just dumped under the grouping "Redhat" but just to be sure I opened an SR.
Oracle came back with:
Remember, CentOS and Scientific Linux, both of which are clones of RHEL (like
Oracle Linux), are not supported by Oracle for the database and WebLogic
installations, so you CAN NOT use these. You can happily use them for
non-Oracle installations though.
CentOS is similar to Oracle Linux. Free to use, but you can choose to pay for
support.
Therefore; it is not the same and is not certified and we do not test on it. If
there is an issue, Oracle Support does not support it.
Seems pretty clear to me - not supported so there's no way we'd allow hundreds
of complex production envs be migrated to CentOS. But I have a hard time
believing the sysadm team (outsourced and we're just 1 of many clients they
support) would not have come across this issue already. So there's nothing to
read into/between lines on this one - no support. Right? No one out there
(unless living on the edge) is running Oracle on CentOS in production? Just
doing a double-tap to make sure.
Regards,
Dave
