Added to what Tim mentioned in most places that I have used rhel we tended to wait for a couple of updates to the OS before deciding on rolling it out to prod. Rui Amaral Database Administrator ITS - SSG TD Bank Financial Group 220 Bay St., 11th Floor Toronto, ON, CA, M5K1A2 (bb) (647) 204-9106 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Hall Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 2:49 PM To: oracle.tutorials@xxxxxxxxx Cc: Oracle-L Subject: Re: Oracle support for RHEL 6 Hi. I just checked the certification search on MOS and currently neither RHEL6 or OL6 are supported for 11.2.0.2 x86-64. Even though I'm sure certification is only round the corner, I prefer not to use an OS that is not in the certification matrix for anything important. Cheers Tim... On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:17 PM, DBA Deepak <oracle.tutorials@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Experts, > > Need your valuable inputs on the following. > > RHEL 6 has been released few months back. As of today Oracle database > is not supported on RHEL 6. But it is supported on OEL 6 (which I feel > is a customized version of RHEL 6, may be I am completely wrong). > > We are planning to use RHEL 6 for application server (for some reason) > and as per our architecture the database and the application server > should reside on the same OS platform/server. > > Hence will it be a prudent idea to install Oracle database on RHEL 6 > in a production environment. I know many experts would say NO, but > would like to know from your experiences whether people do sometimes > go for similar setups where database is not supported on the exact OS > platform. > > > Looking forward to all your valuable comments. > > -- > Regards, > > Deepak > Oracle DBA > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l NOTICE: Confidential message which may be privileged. Unauthorized use/disclosure prohibited. If received in error, please go to www.td.com/legal for instructions. AVIS : Message confidentiel dont le contenu peut être privilégié. Utilisation/divulgation interdites sans permission. Si reçu par erreur, prière d'aller au www.td.com/francais/avis_juridique pour des instructions. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l