What you could try is looking at the STIG guides. But I'm not sure if one
for CentOS even exists.
By scouring them, you would - at least from some perspective - be able to
tell what changes are done to which OS to secure it, but not another.
Of course, it's by no means complete, but it may give you a start.
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 2:03 PM ahmed.fikri@xxxxxxxxxxx <
ahmed.fikri@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,
does someone know any documentation comparing the different OS?
I'm looking for such information from engineering (practical) as well as
scientific point of view.
Thanks and regards
Ahmed Fikri
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As you've said, it's pretty clear, yes.
And regarding your last point. Yes, there are people out there running
Oracle on CentOS in production. But it's usually those that don't really
have in-house DBAs and just have an Oracle instance running somehow, and
nearly forgot about it, until it broke some day. I wouldn't think that a
lot of shops that run Oracle seriously would choose a non-certified OS to
do so.
It's a bit like asking if you can fit monster truck wheels on your fiat
500. Can you make the car run? Sure. Can you take it for a spin and have
some fun with it? Absolutely. Would you drive your kids across town to
school with it every day? Probably not.
On another note, I've seen my fair share of Oracle bugs out in the wild
over the years. Some tricky and involving long resolution times (due to bug
fixes needing to be developed by Oracle). And that was on completely
certified platforms and combinations. And frankly, I wouldn't want to
introduce another unknown variable into the mix that has yet another chance
of introducing some odd behavior due to some code path being different than
a certified install of RHEL or OEL would have.
Thus, Oracle on CentOS in production? Big thumbs down from me :)
Stefan
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 5:23 AM Herring, David <
dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
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