Customers will have a wider selection of operating systems to operate on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) thanks to a partnership between open source solutions provider Red Hat and Oracle. Starting with Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on OCI as a supported operating system, the strategic collaboration would enhance the user experience for organizations that depend on both OCI and Red Hat Enterprise Linux to drive digital transformation and the migration of mission-critical applications to the cloud.
Currently, Red Hat and Oracle products are used by 90% of the Fortune 500, according to Red Hat and Oracle. Red Hat Enterprise Linux would serve as the operating system basis for many of these businesses, and OCI provides them with “high-performance, mission-critical” cloud services to power operations that are focused on the future of digital technology.
With Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating on OCI, these enterprises can now standardize their cloud operations and have access to a single platform that extends from their data center to the OCI distributed cloud.
As a result of this strategic partnership, clients may move existing workloads now operating on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on OCI with more assurance and certified configurations of OCI flexible virtual machines can now run Red Hat Enterprise Linux. To improve price-performance and reduce resource waste, OCI flexible virtual machines can expand in steps as little as one CPU. With a more extensive transparent joint support agreement, customers may also contact Red Hat and Oracle support to assist in resolving any difficulties.
“Customer choice, from hardware to cloud provider, is a crucial commitment for Red Hat, whether these organizations are running operations in their own data centers, on multiple public clouds or at the far edge,” said Ashesh Badani, Senior Vice President, Head of Products, Red Hat. “Our collaboration with Oracle to deliver full support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on OCI further cements this commitment to choice by extending cloud deployment options for our customers, and laying the foundation to make additional Red Hat solutions available to customers digitally transforming on OCI.”
Bare-Metal Servers, Public Cloud
The hybrid cloud technology portfolio from Red Hat, which also includes Red Hat OpenShift, is built around Red Hat Enterprise Linux. To support the current cloud-native stack, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and more technologies are used. With the help of this partnership, Red Hat and Oracle’s joint clients may now lay the groundwork for computing deployments in the future while also preserving the value of their current IT investments.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is officially approved for OCI’s adaptable virtual machines, which range in CPU core count from one to eighty in single-core increments and memory size from one gigabyte (GB) per CPU to a maximum of 1024 GB, depending on the processor. On the most modern OCI virtual machine designs employing AMD, Intel, and Arm CPUs, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is originally supported.
You may find more details, including step-by-step instructions, about starting Red Hat Enterprise Linux on OCI here. Additionally, preparation work for Red Hat Enterprise Linux certification on OCI’s bare-metal servers has started. These servers can offer improved isolation and performance on par with on-premises systems.
About OCI’s Distributed Cloud
Customers may enjoy the advantages of the cloud with OCI’s distributed cloud while having more control over data residency, localization, and authority – even across several clouds. Features of OCI’s distributed cloud would include the following:
- Multicloud – Customers have the option to choose the appropriate cloud provider for their apps and databases thanks to OCI’s multicloud capabilities, which include MySQL HeatWave and Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure.
- Hybrid cloud – OCI oversees infrastructure in more than 60 nations and provides hybrid cloud services on-premises using Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer.
- Public cloud – OCI now runs 41 OCI areas across 22 nations, and 9 more, including two sovereign cloud regions for the EU, are planned.
- Dedicated cloud – Oracle Alloy would enable partners to personalize the cloud services and experience for their clients, while OCI offers dedicated regions for customers to host all Oracle cloud services in their own data centers.
“A significant number of customers rely on both Red Hat and OCI to run their operations and require more choice for distributed cloud deployments than ever before,” said Clay Magouyrk, Executive Vice President, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “Starting today, customers can deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux on OCI and receive full support for these certified configurations from both Red Hat and Oracle. Deepening our collaboration in the future will see us support additional products and workloads on OCI so customers have more flexibility.”
