Both Unbreakable Enterprise kernel and Red Hat compatible kernel are installed on 64 bit (x86_64) platform and the system, by default, boots with the Unbreakable Enterprise kernel. Currently, VMware supports the Red Hat compatible kernel. The Unbreakable Enterprise kernel is not supported on any version of ESX/ESXi host prior to ESXi 5.0 Update 1. For more information, see the VMware Compatibility Guide.
32 bit UEK available | 64 bit UEK available | HotAdd Memory(32 bit) | HotAdd Memory(64 bit) | HotAdd CPU(32 bit) | HotAdd CPU(64 bit) | |
Oracle Linux 5.6(R1) | No | Yes | N/A | Yes | NA | Yes |
Oracle Linux 5.7(R1) | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Oracle Linux 5.8(R1) | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Oracle Linux 6.0(R1) | No | Yes | N/A | Yes | N/A | Yes |
Oracle Linux 6.1(R1) | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Oracle Linux 6.2(R1) | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Oracle Linux 6.3(R2) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Oracle Linux 6.4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |