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The goal of this program is to validate hardware with Oracle Linux and Oracle VM, and to identify issues and configuration details that would impact customer deployments. Oracle developed the program to go far beyond the standard certification testing normally performed with operating systems. Hardware vendors participating in this program perform thorough testing of the hardware in real-world configurations with Oracle Linux and Oracle VM.
This is not a database certification. Oracle Database is a component of the environment because it is demanding on hardware resources (processor, memory, cache, storage, network) and the operating system, and well suited for this advanced level of testing. The validation program uses Oracle Database as a tool and hardware is not certified with Oracle Database as a result of the validation program.
For more information please see the program's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).
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| Oracle VM Server 2.1 x86 and x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge R900 and PowerVault MD3000i with Oracle Database 10g Release 2(10.2.0.3),Oracle Database 11g(11.1.0.6) |
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| 28-JAN-08 | | 1 | | Dell PowerEdge R900 | | PowerVault MD3000i | | Oracle Database Single Instance on OEL 5 x86_64 , OEL 4 Update 5 x86_64 | | Oracle VM Server 2.1 x86 and x86_64 |
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Oracle recommends Paravirtualized guests |
| Oracle VM Server 2.1 , Guest VM - Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 Update 5 x86_64 ,Paravirtualized with Oracle 10.2.0.3 |
| Oracle VM Server 2.1 , Guest VM - Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 Update 5 x86_64 ,Hardware Virtualized with Oracle 10.2.0.3 |
| Oracle VM Server 2.1 , Guest VM - Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 Update 5 x86_64 ,Paravirtualized with Oracle 11.1.0.6 |
| Oracle VM Server 2.1 , Guest VM - Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 Update 5 x86_64 ,Hardware Virtualized with Oracle 11.1.0.6 |
| Oracle VM Server 2.1 , Guest VM - Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 x86_64 ,Paravirtualized with Oracle 10.2.0.3 |
| Oracle VM Server 2.1 , Guest VM - Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 x86_64 ,Hardware Virtualized with Oracle 10.2.0.3 |
| Oracle VM Server 2.1 , Guest VM - Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 x86_64 ,Paravirtualized with Oracle 11.1.0.6 |
| Oracle VM Server 2.1 , Guest VM - Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 x86_64 ,Hardware Virtualized with Oracle 11.1.0.6 |
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| Dell PowerEdge R900 | | 8 X Genuine Intel | | Yes | | VT-x | | 30GB RAM | | 146GB 10k RPM SAS drives configured as RAID 5 | | Internel RAID Controller | | 4 X Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 | | PowerVault MD3000i | | 15x73GB ISCSI | | |
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| Oracle VM Server 2.1 x86 and x86_64 | | kernel-ovs-2.6.18-8.1.6.0.18.el5.i686.rpm or higher | | xen-64-3.1.1-0.0.36.el5.i686.rpm or higher | | None | | |
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| Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706/5708 Driver | | 1.4.44-1ora | | None | | The driver used is supplied with the distribution | | |
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| Two gigabit networks, 1 for public(igb) and 1 private(igb). |
| The swap partition is 16GB. |
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| 4817 | | Under heavy i/o load on iSCSI storage , dom0 networking stops responding for brief periods of time | | Network on Dom0 on servers that support hardware virtualization | | If ip6tables is enabled, Dom0 networking stops responding for brief periods of time and error messages are seen: iscsi: detected conn error in dmesg | | Fixed in OVM 2.1.2 , i.e. ip6tables is turned off by default and if ip6tables has been enabled manually then disable
them. | | |
| 4819 | | Live migration and save/restore operation may fail on a paravirtualized guest ( EL4U5 x86-64 and EL5 x86-64) | | Live migration of paravirtualized guests ( EL4U5 x86-64 and EL5 x86-64 )running Oracle DB under heavy load | | If the migration is attempted - the destination server may reboot; or the originating server may halt; or the migrating paravirtualized guest may panic | | Fixed in OVM 2.1.2, For OVM 2.1, The fix is available as a combination of patches for the guest and hypervisor.Use
xen-3.1.1-0.0.36 kernel or higher for hypervisor.For the guests, Use the oracle kernels for OEL 4.5 x86(kernel-xenU-2.6.9-55.0.12.9.1.EL or
higher), OEL5.1 x86 and x86-64 guests (kernel-xen-2.6.18-53.1.4.9.1.el5 or higher ) available at ULN. The fix is not available for OEL4.5/6
x86-64. For 2.1.1,Use only the patched Oracle kernels for the guests as mentioned in 2.1 above. | | |
| 5707 | | Unable to install on systems having memory > 32 GB | | Systems having large memory configurations | | Server boot up will fail. | | Fixed in OVM 2.1.2, for OVM version < 2.1.2, At install time, enter mem=32G at the boot prompt. This will allow
the installer to come up properly. Note: After installation, Oracle VM will boot and recognize all the memory without problems. | | |
| Oracle Bugzilla 4818 | | System time on virtual machine may drift | | Applications that require time synchronization across the servers or virtual machines. This affects both hardware virtualized and paravirtualized virtual machines. | | The symptoms include the network to restart on a system configured with dhcp; cron jobs may not be executed at the required time. | | To maximize clock accuracy, ntp service should be enabled in domain0.For PVM virtual machines perform the following steps: (1) Edit /etc/sysctl to set xen.independent_wallclock to 1; run sysctl -p to make the change effective; (2) Enable ntp service: chkconfig ntpd on; service ntpd start. For PVHVM virtual machines perform the following steps: (1) Verify that timer_mode parameter in vm.cfg is set to 0 for 32bit Linux, 1 for Windows, and 2 for 64 bit Linux. With OVM 2.1. release, these values should be set manually. In OVM 2.1.1 and higher versions, those values are set automatically if the virtual machine is created by Oracle VM manager or by virt-install command invoked with --os-type and --os-variant options (2) modify /etc/grub.conf in the virtual machine to add kernel parameters "clock=pit nohpet nopmtimer". | | |
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