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Oracle VM is a free, next-generation server virtualization and management solution from Oracle that makes enterprise applications easier to deploy, manage, and support. Users can create and manage Virtual Machines (VMs) that exist on the same physical server but behave like independent physical servers. Each virtual machine created with Oracle VM has its own virtual CPUs, network interfaces, storage and operating system. With Oracle VM, users have an easy-to-use browser-based tool for creating, cloning, sharing, configuring, booting and migrating VMs.

Oracle VM is the ONLY Oracle certified server virtualization solution for x86/x86_64 platforms to allow for the highest product quality and best support. Oracle products such as Oracle Database, Oracle RAC, Enterprise Manager, Application Server, Hyperion, JD Edwards, Berkeley DB, TimesTen, Oracle E-Business Suite, Siebel, PeopleSoft, Oracle Retail, Oracle Financial Services Software Limited, Oracle Weblogic Platform and so on are officially supported when running in Oracle VM-based environments based on real-world testing. Customers who obtain paid support for Oracle VM receive access to patches, fixes, and updates via Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) and 24x7 global support.

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Key Features and Benefits

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  • Virtualization and Management: Zero license costs, zero license keys – Includes Oracle VM Manager for centralized, browser-based management of your resource pools;
    • Oracle VM Manager Web Services API – Enable integration of third party products with Oracle VM Manager;
  • Faster Software Deployment with Oracle VM Templates – Download and import pre-configured virtual machines containing pre-installed Oracle enterprise applications or other software to get up and running in hours not weeks;
  • Leading Price/Performance – Low-overhead architecture provides scalable performance under increasing I/O workloads with no license costs, to meet the most aggressive price/performance requirements;
  • Advanced VM High Availability (HA) – Minimizes or eliminates planned- and unplanned downtime through advanced functionality included at no extra charge;
    • Guest VM HA Feature minimizes unplanned outages;
    • Secure Live Migration eliminates outages from planned downtime;Most migration products don't encrypt your migration traffic, creating vulnerabilities. Oracle VM encrypts migration traffic using SSL to protect sensitive data from exploitation and eliminate the requirement for additional hardware and dedicated networks;
    • Server Pool Load Balancing - Guest VMs are automatically placed on the server with the most resources available in the pool.
    • Oracle VM Manager HA Feature - a distributed architecture and optional clustering of Oracle VM Manager maximizes management uptime.
  • Virtual Machine I/O Resource Management Features - Set bandwidth cap for each virtual network interface and prioritize the virtual disk;
  • Physical-to-Virtual / Virtual-to-Virtual Machine Conversion – Quickly convert existing Linux or Windows physical servers or VMware virtual machines to Oracle VM virtual machines to reduce license expenses;
  • Linux and Windows Support – Linux and Windows guest operating systems; High-performing Linux PV guests; PV drivers also available to boost I/O throughput for Windows Guests
  • Certification Based On Real-World Testing – Supported for use with the most sophisticated enterprise workloads under real-world conditions;
  • Affordable, Full-Stack Enterprise-Class Support – Worldwide support from Oracle for the entire virtualization environment and workloads together.

Oracle VM Architecture

The components of Oracle VM are:
Oracle VM Architecture

  • Oracle VM Manager: Provides the web based user interface to manage Server Pools, Oracle VM Servers, virtual machines, and resources. Oracle VM Manager not only provides life cycle management of virtual machines such as creating and configuring guest VMs, but also performs advanced functionality to load balance across resource pools and automatically reduce or eliminate outages associated with server downtime.
  • Oracle VM Server: A self-contained virtualization environment designed to provide a lightweight, secure, server-based platform for running virtual machines. Oracle VM Server is based on open source technology (Xen hypervisor for example) tailored by Oracle, and includes Oracle VM Agent to communicate with Oracle VM Manager for management of virtual machines.
From a deployment perspective, multiple Oracle VM Servers are grouped into Server Pools in which every server in a given pool has access to shared storage, which can be NFS, SAN (Fibre Channel) or iSCSI storage. This allows VMs associated with the pool to start and run on any physical server within the pool that is available and has the most resources free. Given the uniform access to shared storage, VMs may also be securely Live Migrated or automatically (re-)started across any servers in the pool.

VMs are associated with a given Server in the pool dynamically at power-on based on load balancing algorithms or based on a user-defined list of named servers to be used as a host for that specific VM called the Preferred Server list. When VMs are powered-off and not running, they are not associated with any particular physical server since they are simply residing in a powered-off state on shared pool storage.

As a result of this architecture, VMs can easily start-up, power-off, migrate, and/or restart without being blocked by the failure of any individual server or, by the failure of multiple pool servers as long as the available resources are adequate to support all the VMs running concurrently in the pool.
Oracle VM Deployment Architecture

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Oracle performs real-world testing on its broad portfolio of products with Oracle VM to ensure bulletproof reliability and streamlined support. Consult Support Note 464754.1 on Oracle’s MetaLink support website for the latest information on exact product versions certified.

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altquark Installation issues... 11 Sep 12 2009, 7:04 PM EDT by justgotpaid
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Well - I hit a snag already. I installed the VM Server disk - and then started to install the VM Manager disk (mounted the CD which I created from the ISO and ran sh runinstaller.sh sh) - and received an error stating "libaio package (rpm) is missing. Please install this prerequisite first". Can someone point out the directions so I can install this ?
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FlorinPop Convert VMware image to Oracle VM image 11 Sep 9 2009, 11:02 PM EDT by honglinsu
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Is it possible to convert an existing VMware image (OEL5 or Win XP) into an Oracle VM image? If affirmative which are the steps?
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ONoel Customize VM Templates before deployment 1 Aug 31 2009, 4:08 AM EDT by Maddiboina
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Hi,

Newcomer to Oracle VM here :)
I just wanted to know if it was possible to edit the VM templates before deployment.
In my case I would like to know if it's possible to change the default installation directory when deploying the Grid Control VM Templates. (Both OMS and OMR templates)
I also wanted to know if it's possible to change the disks size of the VM created from a template before creation and if not, if it's possible to change it post installation.

Thank you for your input,

Olivier
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