Oracle VM x86
Oracle VM x86
Oracle VM x86
Speeds
Modern,
inefficient resource utilization, and an eye toward cloud computing. Your virtualization solution
has to increase datacenter flexibility, meet your price/performance needs, and make
applications easier to deploy, manage, and support.
Oracle VM delivers:
Full
High performance, high scalability. Low-overhead architecture with the Xen hypervisor
provides scalable performance under increasing workloads to meet the most aggressive
performance requirements; supports up to 240 physical CPUs and 4TB memory; each guest
VM supports up to 128 virtual CPUs and 2,000,000 MB memory to accommodate enterprise
and cloud workloads.
Ready for OpenStack: Users can also install the Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux with
Oracle VM 3.3 environments and the latest version of Oracle Linux.
Oracle VM Manager Web Services API (WS-API). Beginning with 3.3 release, Oracle VM
Manager exposes a fully supported Web Services API that offers both SOAP and REST
interfaces to program any action supported within Oracle VM, enabling more automation and
interoperability.
Oracle VM Manager native SSH Command Line Interface (CLI). The new Command Line
Interface can be used to perform the same functions as the Oracle VM Manager Web
Interface. The CLI commands can be scripted and run securely in conjunction with the Web
Interface, thus bringing more flexibility to help you deploy and manage an Oracle VM
environment
Faster software deployment with Oracle VM Templates. Download and import preconfigured virtual machines containing pre-installed Oracle enterprise applications or other
software to get up and running in hours not weeks.
OVF support. Oracle VM Manager supports Open Virtualization Format (OVF) based
software assemblies produced by Oracle to accelerate application deployment.
Rapid VM provisioning and cloning. Sparse file support in OCFS2 enables significantly
faster virtual machine provisioning and cloning; allows users more control over data
allocation, improving performance and storage efficiency. OCFS2 also provides instant
cloning capabilities to create copy-on-write clones and that can be immediately started
modified on any machine in a server pool independent of the clone source VM.
Secure live VM migration. Completely eliminate service outages associated with planned
maintenance or scale up your resources quickly by migrating running VMs to other servers
over secure SSL links, without interruption. Create dedicated Live Migration networks to
eliminate impacts on other network traffic.
High availability. Reliably and automatically restart failed VMs on other servers in the server
pool after unexpected server or individual VM outage.
Virtual CPU scheduling priorities and caps per VM. Control access to CPU between
multiple VMs to align with IT/business priorities.
Solaris, Linux, and Windows support. Run Solaris, Linux and Windows guest operating
systems on Oracle VM to support your entire data center.
Send message to virtual machine.
Oracle VM allows users to send a message into a
guest and retrieve it within the guest using Oracle VM guest additions. Users can use this
mechanism to create custom changes inside their virtual machines.
Object tagging, search and filter to assist user managing large deployments. Object
tagging allows users to tag virtual machines and servers and filter by using those tags; this
can help administrators to better manage a large-scale environment. Oracle VM also allows
users to search for an object in their environment and jump straight to it to increase
efficiency.
Virtual machine console access. Redesigned to use JavaScript and HTML5 features so
that there is no requirement to install or run software locally on the client computer. This
change reduces complexity and provides a more reliable console tool.
Official certification based on real-world testing. Certified 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.
Users can create and manage virtual machines (VMs) that exist on the same physical server
but that can behave independently, with each VM having its own virtual CPUs, network
interfaces, storage, and operating system.
Oracle VM supports the following guest operating systems:
Oracle Linux
Oracle Solaris
CentOS
Please refer to the product documentation for complete information on supported guest
operating system configurations.
Oracle VM Server installs on physical, bare-metal servers from a single CD or from a
network in about one minute to provide the environment for hosting guest virtual machines.
Virtual machines can be created, configured, and managed on hundreds of servers to be
managed centrally from a browser using the included Oracle VM Manager software.
Advanced VM Management
Creating and configuring guest VMs is only the beginning. With Oracle VMs included
management solution (Oracle VM Manager), administrators can enable advanced functionality
to load-balance across resource pools and automatically reduce or eliminate outages
associated with server downtime.
Beginning with Oracle VM Manager 3.2, users can create SPARC server pools, virtual
machines, as well as manage networking and storage in the same way this is done for x86
environments. From Oracle VM Manager the user can track and manage the two types from
the same Oracle VM Manager instance .
approach makes it practical for complex enterprise applications to easily be customized and
provisioned in their entirety with minimal to no manual intervention onto virtualized and cloud
environments, powered by Oracle VM.
System Requirements
Please refer to the product documentation for specific software and hardware requirements,
and other pertinent information.
Oracle VM Server is supported on Oracle and non-Oracle x86 systems. Please refer to this list
of Oracle Linux and Oracle VM certified hardware to see which systems are certified to run with
Oracle VM 3.
Access to patches, fixes, and updates delivered via a subscriber network, the
Unbreakable Linux Network
Oracle VM software is available for free download. Support for Oracle VM can be purchased
via Oracle VM Store.
Pricing for Oracle VM support is calculated on a per system basis: Consult Oracles pricing
guide for further details.
For Oracle x86 systems, Oracle VM support is included with Oracle Premier Support for
Systems.
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