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What are the difference between Red Hat EL 4.0 AS and ES distributions?

 
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Rui Vilao
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What are the difference between Red Hat EL 4.0 AS and ES distributions?

Greetings,

I am having some trouble in installing and configuring Oracle RAC 10gR2 under RHEL 4.0 U2 AS…

Despite my server has only 2 CPUs, I have installed RHEL 4.0 AS, because this will be the final production environment.

As far as I know:
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES supports up to 2 CPUs / 16 GB RAM
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS has no limits for CPU and RAM.

However there should be no differences in the Linux kernel. It's just a question of support.

Any help/suggestion is highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your help,

Kind Regards,

Rui.
"We should never stop learning"_________ rui.vilao@rocketmail.com
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Vitaly Karasik_1
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Re: What are the difference between Red Hat EL 4.0 AS and ES distributions?

You're almost right - RHEL ES and AS are the same technically.
Why almost? - of course, RHEL AS has CPU/memory limits, but there are "real" linux kernel limits, not just "marketing/support" limits, as for ES.

Can you explain us which troubles do you have?
Ivan Ferreira
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Re: What are the difference between Red Hat EL 4.0 AS and ES distributions?

See this link:

http://www.redhat.com/en_us/USA/rhel/compare/
Por que hacerlo dificil si es posible hacerlo facil? - Why do it the hard way, when you can do it the easy way?
dipesh_2
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Re: What are the difference between Red Hat EL 4.0 AS and ES distributions?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS : the top of the line RHEL solution, this product supports the largest x86-compatible servers and is available with the highest leveles of support.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES : for the entry level or mid-range departal servers. RHEL ES provides the same core capabilities as AS, for systems with up to two phisical CPUs and up to 8 GB of main memory.
kcpant
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Re: What are the difference between Red Hat EL 4.0 AS and ES distributions?

Hi Rui,

Pl let us know what problem you are facing installing Oracle 10g
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Vipulinux
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Re: What are the difference between Red Hat EL 4.0 AS and ES distributions?


Hi
Best Site for Oracle Installations:

http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle10g.shtml

Cheers
Rui Vilao
Regular Advisor

Re: What are the difference between Red Hat EL 4.0 AS and ES distributions?

Hi,

Thanks for all the updates (I will assign the respective points soon).

Concerning my Oracle RAC problems:

- I am not able to install OCFS2:

Loading module "configfs": Unable to load module "configfs"
Failed

- I have tried with raw devices:

when I run root.sh on the first hosst it hanges during the configuration of the voting disk...

I have the respective TARs open but with no success until now...

TIA,

Rui.
"We should never stop learning"_________ rui.vilao@rocketmail.com
Vitaly Karasik_1
Honored Contributor

Re: What are the difference between Red Hat EL 4.0 AS and ES distributions?

try to [re-]read installation manuals, for example http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/smiley_rac10g_install.html
kcpant
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Re: What are the difference between Red Hat EL 4.0 AS and ES distributions?

hi Rui,

I've found Oracle installations peculiar in one manner that you have to follow exact procedure step by step, you missed one step, you lost! so, as other friends suggested, go to puschitz.com or oracle installation guide site, and follow the steps there. I've wasted my whole a day only because I forgot to set permissions on directories as 775, instead I made it 755, and then ......
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