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Originally Posted by shareefh
Thanks a lot for your reply.
1. We don't have support from Red Hat.
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Then you shouldn't be using RHEL, period. If you're in a company environment, and are paying for an IBM server and are planning on putting a server into PRODUCTION, then it makes no sense. Your server will
NOT get bugfixes/updates/patches/security releases, and be unstable from the very beginning. It will only get worse as time goes on, and make things much harder to administer and install new software on. Pay for RHEL, or use CentOS instead.
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2. OS is 5.3
3. We need this particular version:
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Why? I doubt seriously that any application NEEDS an old version of an OS, especially if that application is current. So...what application are you using that
REQUIRES RHEL 5.3???.
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Currently we have ORACLE EBS. 2 servers for this application. dbTier and appsTier. We decided to replace current db tier server with this IBM. Then cold backup current db and extract it again to the new server. So it should be same OS version with same packages, Other wise it would not work as it has been moved to different OS.
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Doing a cold backup can work fine..and it can also NOT work. Why not take a dump of the active database, and import it? And if your reasoning for using RHEL 5.3 is to make sure that Oracle works, that's wrong. Oracle is ALSO something you need to pay for or not use...see previous comments about being in a corporate/supported environment re: RHEL. And a newer version of Linux is NOT a 'different OS'. What makes you say it wouldn't work? What have you done/tried? Who has told you that?
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Is there any way to solve it?
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Yep...pay for Red Hat support, Oracle support, and use the current versions. Chances are, that server isn't supported by RHEL 5.3 because of how old 5.3 is, and you either need drivers (available from Red Hat
WHEN YOU PAY, or from IBM (have you looked?), or the latest version will already have them built in.
Using old, outdated software for a production server is
NEVER, EVER A GOOD IDEA. If it's so old that it won't support current hardware, it's time to upgrade.