Oracle Database 11g Certification Matrix

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The hardware and software requirements included in this installation guide were current at the time this guide was published. However, because new platforms and operating system software versions might be certified after this guide is published, review the certification matrix on the My Oracle Support website for the most up-to-date list of certified hardware platforms and operating system versions.

The My Oracle Support certifications page contains more detailed information about certified hardware and has information specific to each release and platform. My Oracle Support is available at the following URL:

You must register online before using My Oracle Support. Use the steps described in the support document "Locate Oracle Database Server Certification Information for Microsoft Windows Platforms (Doc ID 1062972.1)" to locate the certification information for your Windows operating system.

Dear Mike,
thanks for providing the certification information. As far as I know OL9 with UEK 7 or RHCK does not provide any Oracle ASMLib kernel driver (oracleasm). Do you know how to install ASM on OL9 without this driver?

Hi Mike,
sure, but you need the asmlib driver to manage the disks with ASM (if you cannot use the ASM filter driver (AFD)).
Regarding MOS 1089399.1 the oracleasmlib and oracleasm-support should be provided by Oracle also for RHEL-9 (because both products are in support right now). Or am I wrong?
Cheers
Bernd

it reads to me the same way but if you want to double-sure, then you need a quick SR please. This way, the people in charge learn about customer requests.
I stopped discussing it (and I tried VERY hard, trust me). Hence, it is MUCH BETTER if you signal this to Oracle as it then will be seen by the owners.

Hello Mike,
Thanks for the post, great new that OL9/RHE9 are now certified. However, I checked 1369107.1 (ACFS and AFD Support On OS Platforms (Certification Matrix).) and OL9/RHEL9 are still not there. For us, not being able to use AFD is a major blocker. Any idea if this is really not certified yet or just that the Doc is not up to date yet? Bottom line, when can we expect for AFD and ACFS to be certified on these operating systems?
Thanks a lot for your great work, kind regards,
-Zarko

Hi Mike, thanks for the reply, including for the post contents above which now has a complete information. Sorry for delays, I did not realize you already answered (did not get automatic notification this time). So I guess, we will just have to wait for 19.22 and I admit this does spoil all our current gold image creation and patching efforts which were all based on 19.20 / RHEL7 in an attempt to align internal Oracle RUs with OS versions currently in use and an upcoming RHEL9 migration project :-(.

So, not only there is no info on what MLR numbers to use for 19.21 (already publicly available), but one can only wonder if that info will be available for the upcoming 19.22 ? Should we now request such information each time via a SR ?

Is Oracle applications developed using Forms & Reports version 12.2.1.3.0 supports Oracle database 19c? I did check with the certification matrix published for Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c (12.2.1.3.0) and it seems Database 19c supported except for ExaData Express. In addition, I need to understand the capabilities of the Exadata express feature. Please help me to get these queries clarified.

You will need to look at the certification matrix for ODI which is available on Oracle Technology Network.If you repository is on the database you upgrade, make sure that version is supported in the certification matrix. It looks ok to upgrade to 12c if you are on ODI 11.1.1.7+.

I plan install new ORACLE DB 12C. Is any experience, or directly from ORACLE information which of version (distribution) Linux is the best option? Yet I use CentOS - is any best solution from CentOS distribution for ORACLE DB 12C? Thanks, Jaro

Alanm - is not correct all.
Yet ERP system run on ORACLE DB 10G on CentOS - this is certified - all is OK.
But new version ERP system need also new version ORACLE DB - 12. Then I need install this and then I can know, which of version of Linux is supported for ORACLE 12C.

so if I understand correctly, you are running a 10G database in production on Centos which is not a supported platform, how did you manage to get away with that. Oracle is certified on OEL and Redhat, Use you Oracle CSI to check the certification matrix on My Oracle Support.

We also concluded that Oracle Licensing Audit should not be taken lightly just as you would for any other software vendor but not special and one does not have to fear it.

This post endeavors to highlight the typical questions customers might have in their minds after reading articles on internet or talking to other colleagues or questions they might have encountered talking to licensing auditors.

During the course of my career as an Oracle DBA and Architect working on Oracle technologies, Oracle licensing was one of the facets of a DBA life I had to go through and really , nothing has changed much.

Working as the Oracle Technologies pre-sales Lead in VMware since 2012 and being the lead Oracle pre-sales field guy, talking to customers and clarifying their questions about Oracle licensing on VMware SDDC is one of my charters.

2) Oracle licensing requires licensing every server in every Site connected to the Primary site where the Oracle workloads primarily resides, starting from vSphere 6.0 because of the cross vCenter vMotion capability.

Scenario : Suppose you want into a datacenter which has 100 physical servers, sucking power and dust , all bare metal with OS installed with NO Oracle installed. You then whip out the Oracle install dvd-rom and install Oracle software on 1 physical server.

if the above statement is ridiculous, truly the part where you have to license each and every server in the cluster regardless of whether its running Oracle or not is equally ridiculous ? !!!

5b) what if Oracle refuses to open a Service Request (SR) for my case? what if they open a SR but refuse to help with the SR citing FUD reasons? What are the 3 pillars of Oracle support on VMware ?

The customer has signed the Technical Support Policy document with Oracle in which Software Technical Support Policies apply to technical support for all Oracle software product lines.

Oracle customers with an active support contract and running supported versions of Oracle products will receive assistance from Oracle when running those products on VMware virtualized environments.

5d) Hmm, ok, how about this ? After an SR number is generated by Oracle TSE and they state the usual FUD, we reach out to VMware GSS and engage them, after both the parties (VMware GSS and Oracle TSE) are involved, will the customers be treated as a ping-pong ball shuttling between both parties for problem resolution with finger pointing?

Even in the case of bare metal servers environment , if Oracle support suspects issue is caused by the underlying hardware , then they can request to reproduce the same issue on another physical host with the exact same hardware specifications.

The real reason for the above request is because Oracle has no visibility into the hardware stack i.e. BIOS, Firmware, Drivers, and HBA etc and the fact that Oracle products are only certified to O/S , not hardware, so this is only way they can eliminate hardware related issues.

VMware is NOT an Oracle software reseller and VMware strictly adheres to the Oracle Software distribution policy. VMware cannot and will not download any patches/updates/software on behalf of any VMware customer , whether they have an Active Oracle Support contract in place or not.

Keep in mind, VMware GSS Oracle Team can only reach out to Oracle Support on the customer behalf using the TSANET umbrella if and only if the customer has an Active Oracle Support contract in place.

Do not run PowerCLI scripts / commands against the vCenter database which shows all the ESXI servers connected to the vCenter regardless of whether they are part of the vSphere dedicated cluster for Oracle or not.

If you have to run it to gather information about the ESXi servers in the Oracle vSphere Cluster, login as the user who has access to only the Oracle cluster so that way it reduces the scope of discovery to only the Oracle Cluster

This is the document which is handed out to Customers which has information how to gather information about the ESXi servers connected to the Virtual Center , it does not specify running the script against the Oracle vSphere Cluster.

Keep in mind , Oracle ONLY certifies their products including Peoplesoft (PeopleTools & EnterpriseOne ) on operating systems (including Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, MS Windows, AIX etc.), not on specific hardware configurations. Therefore, as long as a customer configures their machines with supported operating systems, we will treat them as though they are independent systems and provide full support.

For example if we were to check the certification matrix of Peoplesoft PeopleTools 8.58 Details on mysupport.oracle.com site, , we can clearly see, Peoplesoft PeopleTools 8.58 is certified to RHEL 6/7, OEL 6/7 and for the database , its compatible and certified with Oracle 19c.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is very scalable and runs on multiple operating systems (Linux, AIX, Microsoft Windows, IBM I5OS), various databases (Oracle, SQL, DB/2) and Virtual Servers (Oracle VM and VMware). Oracle certifies the JD Edwards s/w to certain operating systems, not on specific hardware configurations. Therefore, as long as a customer configures their machines with supported operating systems, we will treat them as though they are independent systems and provide full support.

In conclusion, there are no issues running Oracle software / products on VMware SDDC as VMware ESXi is an Enterprise-Class, Type-1 non-Para virtualized hypervisor and does not trap x86 binary instructions coming down the stack for purpose of simulation / emulation unlike any other para-virtualized hypervisors.