On December 15th , 2020 , there was recent changes made to the Oracle document – “Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) Support on Third-Party Clouds – An Overview and Clarification – Revision 2020.06.14”.
The above document “Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) Support on Third-Party Clouds – An Overview and Clarification – Revision 2020.06.14” actually refers to an Oracle Support note which can be found at My Oracle Support Note 2688277.1 .
One would need Oracle My Support (old Metalink) credentials to see the Internal note.
The document My Oracle Support Note 2688277.1 “Oracle Database Support for Non-Oracle Public Cloud Environments (Doc ID 2688277.1)” has been copied from the Oracle site and re-produced below for benefit of those who do not have the Oracle MySupport credentials.
The entire text of the support note can be found at the blog “Oracle Database Support for Non-Oracle Public Cloud Environments – Doc ID 2688277.1 – Full text“.
As per Note 2688277.1 – “Oracle does not support Oracle RAC or Oracle RAC One Node running on Non-Oracle Public Cloud Environments” .
In addition , As per Note 2688277.1 – “For the purposes of this document, Non-Oracle Public Cloud Environments are defined as:
- (a) Non-Oracle Public Clouds. Examples: Google Cloud Platform, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, etc.
or - (b) Environments that are in any way considered an extension of Non-Oracle Public Clouds including but not limited to running Non-Oracle cloud management software, cloud billing, cloud support, cloud automation, cloud images, or cloud monitoring. Examples: Google Bare Metal Solution, Amazon AWS Outpost, Microsoft Azure Stack, IBM Bluemix Local, Alibaba Hybrid Cloud, etc.
Non-Oracle Public Cloud Environments also includes VMware Cloud on AWS.
Please reach out to your VMware Representative for further clarification in this regard.
