Point 1: I'm sorry, I can't really elaborate on this. We run RHEL at my work on ESX, with support, and we've never considered the underlying hardware, it Just works, and it is supported. Point 2: You might have only Linux responsibility but there isn't a clear line of demarcation when performance is bad. Perhaps the Oracle guest server isn't performing well and hence the database isn't performing well, because the host isn't performing well. Then suddenly it's your responsibility. But if everyone's aware of that risk and they don't care about performance, Fine. Cheers. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Erling Ringen Elvsrud Sent: Wednesday, 15 July 2009 6:49 p.m. To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Is this sysstem supported by RHEL Server? On 7/15/09, Geofrey Rainey <Geofrey.Rainey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't think the underlying hardware beneath RHEL matters. Can you elaborate on this. I don't understand. The reason I ask is that the number of entries in /proc/cpuinfo can vary a lot due to hyperthreading, multi core, and multi CPU. For example a 2 CPU server with 8 cores total is supported by RHEL Server physical_id will be 1 and 0. processor is 0-7. So to rephrase my question: Is a virtual server supported by RHEL Server if the physical host has 4 physical CPU-sockets and the virtual server is assigned 4 virtual CPUs? (with the /proc/cpuinfo posted earlier which indicates nothing about the number of physical cpus only concurrent threads of execution). What if the virtual host has 1 virtual CPU, but the physical host has 4 physical cpu-sockets? > I'd be reluctant to run Oracle as a VM, unless it's either > A very low end database doing minimal work, or a dev environment. This is not a great concern for me which have only Linux responsibilty, I have also alredy asked about this and the decision makers claim performance should be good enough for the application. Best regards, Erling Ringen Elvsrud -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ========================================================== For more information on the Television New Zealand Group, visit us online at tvnz.co.nz ========================================================== CAUTION: This e-mail and any attachment(s) contain information that is intended to be read only by the named recipient(s). This information is not to be used or stored by any other person and/or organisation. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
