Once you created the VM, let’s add a Legacy Network Adapter to it.
#Redhat linux vm windows#
No need to connect it to your virtual network yet as we will be adding a Legacy Network Adaptor later.Īssign the VHD file that you copied from your Windows 2003 Virtual Server 2005 to this new Virtual Machine. Next, create a New Virtual Machine on your Hyper-V R2 host.
The first step is to shutdown your Linux virtual machine then copy the VHD file over to your Hyper-V R2 server. The picture below shows my Redhat Linux 4 virtual machine running on Virtual Server 2005. Here we go, I will explain the steps as I go through them. With the help of my UNIX guru, Mr Aw GuanBee, we managed to get this completed! Thank you GuanBee for your help.
#Redhat linux vm upgrade#
So my plan was to move my virtual machines from Virtual Server 2005 to another Hyper-V R2 server then upgrade my existing Windows 2003 Server to Windows 2008 R2. However, if you have Linux virtual machines on Virtual Server 2005 running on Windows 2003 Server, then inplace upgrade is not an option. Now upgrading from Hyper-V to Hyper-V R2 is no big feat. Let me know in case you need additional help.The release of Hyper-V R2 prompted me to plan for upgrades of my virtual servers. This is because Oracle Linux support comes from Oracle Metalink 24x7 by default. Simply compare Oracle Linux Standard Edition with Ref Hat Linux with 24x7 support and you will understand the difference. Commercially Oracle Linux gives you better price as compared to RHEL. I am sure they will get all Autonomous features in Oracle Linux in future versions.ĥ. Oracle has announced Autonomous Linux during Oracle Open World few weeks back. In case you plan to migrate your Oracle workload to Oracle Cloud (OCI) or Exadata in future, the migration will be seamless.Ĥ. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) runs on Oracle Linux, and Oracle Exadata runs on Oracle Linux.
In case you run RHEL, you will end up in managing Oracle and RHEL support separately.ģ.
#Redhat linux vm software#
Because you get one support portal "Metalink" to manage your support issues for all the software components. If you are planning to run Oracle database / MiddleWare / E-Business on Intel/ Linux then select Oracle Linux. Oracle Enterprise Linux has some key features which are suitable for running enterprise class workloads. I strongly recommend Oracle Enterprise Linux.ġ. These projects have used OLE, RHEL, and CentOS Linux with IBM or HP servers also EMC, HPE or Hitachi storage.ġ-RHEL Linux is better compatible with different hardware.Ģ-Not only are RHEL Documents more clear but also Red Hat has better support compared to Oracle.ģ-RHEL and CentOS have better repositories and quicker security patching compared to OLE.įinally, Red Hat (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora) communities are much greater and active than the Oracle Linux community. Based on my experience in various projects as a Linux expert and SAN storage admins with an expert colleague in the Oracle database have obtained interesting results. And the lack of knowledge in the Linux field leads to accepting Oracle's recommendations that my Linux works better and should be used. Moreover, Oracle releases OLE to keep its product list complete on the other hand Oracle Linux fans are most people and companies that work with Oracle products. As far as I can remember, projects such as Open Solaris, OpenOffice, and etc were owned by Oracle disappeared. Third, Oracle's policies regarding open source projects are unacceptable. Secondly, there is no point to use OLE in heterogeneous Data Centers which they are equipped with multi-brand hardware. I have been working on both Linux (RHEL from RedHat and OLE from Oracle) in many projects for more than 10 years now.įirstly, RHEL is the main Linux Distribution whereas OLE is just a clone version of RHEL with some enhancements in Kernel to makes it more compatible with Oracle hardware and software.