Xen and Oracle : what's the status?

[former_member203322]

Hello

I see from note 1426182 that Xen is not supported for running oracle databases...since we plan to build a 4 nodes cluster on Xen (Sles 11) and oracle is our target db per company policies this looks like a show-stopper

What I don't understand is why VMware managed to get oracle support (althought restricted) and Xen not (I believe oracle vm is running on top of Xen...right)?

Are there any plans for having Xen certified for oracle ?

Thanks and regards

Michele

[hannes_kuehnemund]

Hi Michele,

you have correctly pointed out that the technology in the product "Oracle VM" is Xen. So there are obviously no visible technical issues with Oracle on Xen technology. Therefore I assume that there are other reasons why Oracle does not certify Xen in general. You might have to ask Oracle about their reasons.

Hannes

PS: If you check the Oracle on VMware certification for SAP carefully, it still says that in case of issues Oracle can demand to have the issue reproduced on native hardware....

[former_member203322]

Hi Hannes

Thanks for you reply

Indeed I would be happy to have at least the same phrase for Xen in the SAP note (in case of db related issues you must replicate it on physical hw ...

Do you think this could happen?

Thanks again and best regards

Michele

[hannes_kuehnemund]

Hi Michele,

I hope you understand, that SAP cannot and will not overrule Oracles support statements. It's up to Oracle to change these notes (although these are SAP notes, the content comes from Oracle itself). I'm sorry.

Thanks,

Hannes

[hannes_kuehnemund]

Well, you could check DB2 and MaxDB release statements for Xen ... these might be more positive