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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 2.1.5 x86 and x86_64 on AMD white box with Supermicro H8DMU and NetApp FAS 3140 with Oracle Database 10g Release 2(10.2.0.4),Oracle Database 11g(11.1.0.6) |
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11-JAN-10 | 1.0 | AMD white box with Supermicro H8DMU | NetApp FAS 3140 | Oracle Database Single Instance on OEL 5 Update 3 x86_64 , OEL 4 Update 8 x86_64 , Oracle Linux 4 Update 8 x86_64 | Oracle VM Server 2.1.5 x86 and x86_64 |
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Oracle recommends Paravirtualized guests |
Oracle VM Server 2.1.5 , Guest VM - Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 Update 8 x86_64 ,Hardware Virtualized with Oracle 10.2.0.4 |
Oracle VM Server 2.1.5 , Guest VM - Oracle Linux 4 Update 8 x86_64 ,Paravirtualized with Oracle 10.2.0.4 |
Oracle VM Server 2.1.5 , Guest VM - Oracle Linux 4 Update 8 x86_64 ,Paravirtualized with Oracle 11.1.0.6 |
Oracle VM Server 2.1.5 , Guest VM - Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 Update 8 x86_64 ,Hardware Virtualized with Oracle 11.1.0.6 |
Oracle VM Server 2.1.5 , Guest VM - Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 Update 3 x86_64 ,Paravirtualized with Oracle 10.2.0.4 |
Oracle VM Server 2.1.5 , Guest VM - Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 Update 3 x86_64 ,Hardware Virtualized with Oracle 10.2.0.4 |
Oracle VM Server 2.1.5 , Guest VM - Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 Update 3 x86_64 ,Paravirtualized with Oracle 11.1.0.6 |
Oracle VM Server 2.1.5 , Guest VM - Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 Update 3 x86_64 ,Hardware Virtualized with Oracle 11.1.0.6 |
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AMD white box with Supermicro H8DMU | 2 X Quad Core Opteron(tm) Processor 8382 2.613GHz | Yes | AMD-V | 16GB | 2 X Intel EXPI9402PT PIC-E Ethernet | 2 X Brocade 825 8Gb dual port PCIe FC 8Gb | NetApp FAS 3140 | NetApp ONTAP 7.3.1, RAID-DP, FlexVol, ACTIVE-ACTIVE (SSI cfmod) 1 TB Usable Capacity / Per Controller | |
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Brocade Switch model 340 | FC Switch | 16P, Full Fabric, 4GB SWL SFPs. Fabric OS: v6.1.1a | |
Cisco 4948 | Network Switch | None | |
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Oracle VM Server 2.1.5 x86 and x86_64 | kernel-ovs-2.6.18-8.1.15.6.2.el5.i686.rpm or higher | xen-64-3.1.4-0.1.40.el5.noarch.rpm or higher | None | |
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Brocade 825 8Gb dual port PCIe FC HBA | V 1.1.0.9 | None | None | |
Network driver module (e1000) | None | None | The driver is supplied with Oracle VM Server | |
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Two gigabit networks, 1 for public(igb) and 1 private(igb). |
The swap partition is 16GB. |
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7528612 | Unable to boot PVHVM virtual machine after adding second disk as SCSI | 32 bit PVHVM virtual machines with IDE (hda) as primary disk | Virtual Machine failure to boot or the newly added SCSI disk discovery failure | For EL4 virtual machine adding "alias sym53c8xx off" in /etc/modprobe.conf files prevent crash when "sda" entry is added (scsi disk) in vm.cfg file and For EL5 virtual machine, remove sym53c8xx.ko from /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ directory. | |
7528616 | EL4U6/U7/U8 PVM virtual machine scsi driver do not recognize scsi disk added by vm manager. | EL4U6/U7/U8 PVM virtual machine with IDE (hda) as primary disk | Virtual Machine failure to recognize the newly added SCSI disk | Remove the SCSI driver from the virtual machine initrd image and reboot the virtual machine , E.g.: Command to remake initrd image without SCSI module (scsi_mod.ko) for 2.6.9-67.0.22.0.1.ELxenU kernel, mkinitrd --omit-scsi-modules --with=xenblk --with=xennet /boot/initrd-2.6.9-67.0.22.0.1.ELxenU.img.scsifix 2.6.9-67.0.22.0.1.ELxenU | |
8499326 | Startup of multipathd results in cannot open /sbin/dasd_id and /sbin/gnbd_import | None so far | When starting multipathd, you see the following errors:multipathd: cannot open /sbin/dasd_id : No such file or directory,multipathd: cannot open /sbin/gnbd_import : No such file or directory | Fixed in OVM 2.2. For OEL5U3 and OEL5U4, contact Oracle support | |
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". | |
8509820 | iSCSI detected conn error seen just after bootup of machine | None so far | During bootup of the OVM server, the following error is seen in /var/log/messages and dmesg iscsi: detected conn error (1011) | Contact Oracle support | |
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