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Re: [suse-oracle] 10gR2 RAC certification with OCFS2

Michele Resta

2006-04-17

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we are planning to announce it in 2 weeks.
We are preparing a final and clean drop for OCFS2 certified on 10gR2 RAC
thanks
Michele

Meilus, Maureen A wrote:

> Michele:
>   Is there a better estimate of when 10gR2 RAC will be
> certified with OCFS2?
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: michele resta [mailto:michele.resta@(protected)]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 2:51 PM
> To: Silviu Marin-Caea
> Cc: suse-oracle@(protected)
> Subject: Re: [suse-oracle] Is OCFS2 officially supported with SP3?
>
> Silviu
>
> please look at http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/ for more
> information on support, certification.
> Please let me know if you need more info
> Thanks
> Michele
>
> Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
>
>>On Thursday 15 December 2005 20:46, Arun Singh wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Ralf,
>>>
>>>As you must have read reply from Michele Resta (Oracle) that Oracle
>>>certification is in progress (all platform) and Oracle supportmatrix will
>>>get updated after that. This doesn't mean that OCFS2/SLES9 has problem but
>>>has to go through lengthy Oracle certification process. There are many
>>>folks on this list has successfully deployed and provided excellent
>>>feedback.
>>>  
>>>
>>
>>In SP3 Release Notes there is this paragraph:
>>
>>"Included support for Oracle Cluster Filesystem 2 (ocfs2) for limited use
>>cases
>>At the time of this release notes support is limited to the following
>>conditions:
>>* x86, AMD64 & Intel EM64T, Itanium, IBM POWER, IBM S/390 & zSeries hardware
>>platform
>>* valid support agreement with Novell and Oracle
>>* use as a home for Oracle RAC (${ORACLE_HOME}, no general purpose use)
>>Support conditions may be extended over time. Please contact your Novell sales
>>or support representative about the current status."
>>
>>This means that:
>>OCFS2 is supported for Oracle shared home and for database/index files.
>>
>>It's not yet "Unbreakable Linux" (will be soon), but it's more than it was
>>before SP3 (was unsupported).
>>
>>Is this correct?
>>
>>
>>
>>>Michele Resta <michele.resta@(protected):
>>>  
>>>
>>>>10gR2 RAC certification with OCFS2 is still in progress.
>>>>This is a configuration not supported yet.
>>>>Testing is in progress across different architectures.
>>>>Once the certification will be completed, Oracle will provide
>>>>"Unbreakable Linux Support" on OCFS2.
>>>>    
>>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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