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What is Oracle Linux?

Oracle Linux, which is application binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, is free to download, use, and share. There is no license cost, no need for a contract, and no usage audits. 24/7 enterprise-grade support is available for business critical environments. A single support offering includes virtualization, management, HA, and cloud native computing tools such as Kubernetes and Kata Containers, along with the Linux operating system. The vendor states that as the only Linux distribution with zero-downtime automated patching for kernel, hypervisor, and critical user-space libraries, Oracle Linux improves performance of all workloads and is optimized–out of the box–for Oracle software. Autonomous Linux, a self-patching, self-tuning, high-performance implementation of Oracle Linux is available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.



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Advantages of Oracle Linux

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kibrom Haftu✔View profile
Senior IT and System Auditor in Information Technology at Lion International Bank S.C. (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I first came across the Oracle Linux product when I was working for an Oracle partner Technology company. It was mainly used for training professionals in data administration such as Oracle database Administration Workshop I, Workshop II, Oracle Database 11g - Data Guard Administration, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), and security courses. Every command was run on top of this Linux distribution.

Pros

  • Shell Scripting
  • System Administration
  • Database Administration
  • User management

Cons

  • Slower than other Linux ( Say Linux mint, Ubuntu).
  • Lack of technical support.
  • Difficult to troubleshoot.

Return on Investment

  • Improve learning curve.
  • Manage efficiently.
  • Gives access to some of the most cutting-edge innovations in Linux.

Other Software Used

CentOS Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Fedora Linux

The power of Linux

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Eram Fatema SayedView profile
Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Tata Constancy Services (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I’ve used oracle to perform daily ongoing business operations. It was good for [the] deployment of a new project and also awesome at registering client [systems] whether being a physical server or virtual machine guests. the only problem [that came from] a business point of view is the knowledge that people had about Oracle products, however, we tried our best to train our employees to overcome it.

Pros

  • Client Registering
  • Administration
  • Patching
  • Security auditing
  • Configuration management

Cons

  • Information sharing
  • Knowledge base
  • Custom support based on different domains.
  • Scheduled deployment.

Return on Investment

  • Customer satisfaction.
  • Agile deployment.
  • Easy Application lifecycle management.
  • Fast and easy business operations.
  • High Business intelligence.

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Solaris

Other Software Used

dbForge Data Compare for MySQL, Oracle Big Data SQL Cloud Service, Adobe Robohelp

My best experience with Oracle Linux

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ANDERSON RAMOS
IT Sênior Analist in Information Technology at GetNet (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Oracle Linux as a database server. We decide to use Oracle Linux to solve performance issues related [to] other kernel versions and [databases]. We started to use Oracle Linux as our ERP database and we gained a lot of performance increasing the customer experience.

Pros

  • Performance
  • Database Compatibility
  • Fine Tuning
  • Support

Cons

  • Kernel modules
  • Storage Compatibility
  • Log Debug

Return on Investment

  • Easy migration from other Linux platform.
  • Many professional with Oracle Linux Skill.
  • Quick support responded for implementation.

Other Software Used

OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter, Hyper-V, Proxmox VE

ORACLE LINUX REVIEW 2022 -- A Performance Beast

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Priyanka Dhuria
Senior Consultant in Information Technology at JK Tech (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my current organization, I am the lead consultant for a Healthcare Client in the UK. So, we had to design, create and implement a top-class robust solution for the Infrastructure implementation. We chose Oracle Linux as an operating system as it is the best out there. Most of our java based applications which are very critical in Hospital management like Prescription generation, audit, Salary management, Staff management, and a lot more are built on top of Oracle Linux as it provides capabilities of RHEL along with the usability of Oracle databases. The blazing fast speed of oracle Linux handles our server load fluently and helps us run a smooth operation -24*7.

Pros

  • Oracle Linux helps run native databases on the same operating systems that they were developed on.
  • Docker and Kubernetes support.
  • Oracle Linux is so powerful that you can patch the vulnerabilities faster than 74% of the organizations.
  • The support provided by oracle guys is one of the best.
  • All the traditional Linux commands are supported.

Cons

  • The limited knowledge base on the Oracle website sometimes makes it difficult for troubleshooting.
  • Some bugs are observed while working with the GUI . That needs to be fixed urgently.
  • There is a scope of improvement in kernel-level configuration.
  • The license cost is little on the higher side.

Return on Investment

  • Very Good SLA and support
  • Drives revenue growth
  • The downtime when we first implemented Oracle Linux as almost Zero.

Alternatives Considered

Ubuntu Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Other Software Used

Oracle Database, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Works as good as it was sold to us.

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Frederico RoierView profile
DBA in Information Technology at Politec (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We purchased 12 Exadata appliances and used two more intermediate servers to support data administration and backup activities. Altogether there are 14 servers that use Oracle Linux in a critical environment and in relation to the database. The stability of Oracle and the ease of the commands commonly used in Linux provide an excellent opportunity to combine the best of both worlds.

Pros

  • Usual linux comand syntax
  • Ease of patching
  • kernel stability

Cons

  • The licensing is expensive.
  • Oracle Linux, needs to support more packages.
  • Zabbix is not recommended for install on Exadata Servers

Return on Investment

  • The licensing is expensive.
  • Each core must be licensed
  • You cannot count with your needed package be avaiable for install

Other Software Used

Oracle Database, Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service

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