The combination of Oracle VM and Oracle RAC enables a better server utilization (RAC databases with underutilized CPU resources or peaky CPU utilization can often benefit from consolidation with other workloads using server virtualization), simplified server maintenance, sub-capacity licensing, and rapid provisioning.
This paper discusses various Oracle RAC deployment scenarios and provides best practices for an optimized Oracle RAC deployment in Oracle VM environments.
Oracle today announced that it delivers the industry's most complete virtualization portfolio that is integrated from applications to disk. Read the press release for more details on Oracle strategy and portfolio of products.
Last update 08-30-2010
Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure offers the most comprehensive VDI solution with the broadest choice of virtual desktop operating systems including Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. It comes with a built-in virtualization host optimized for virtual machines running desktop operating systems, but can also integrate with VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. It supports Oracle Sun Ray Clients and most modern PC and Macs.

Check out this short animated demo of Oracle VM that shows key capabiities and benefits for users.
In about 4 minutes, it walks through Oracle's strategy with Oracle VM, gives a quick tour of a few key features, and explains Oracle's focus on helping users realize further benefits from virtualization beyond just server consolidation.
Watch the demo.
Enjoy!
Monica
Oracle announced this morning that Dell and HP will certify and resell Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM on their x86 systems.
Read the latest issue of Profit Magazine (July 2010) for a special report on Virtualization with a spotlight on Sun Ray 3 Plus Client and Sun Ray Software.
The report also links to Oracle's Virtualization Strategy Webcast as well as the latest webinar on Oracle VM VirtualBox 3.2
It would be an under statement to say that Oracle is moving full speed forward to enhance Oracle Virtualization product portfolio on all fronts. Stay tuned for more!
Join Oracle VM experts for a live webinar and find out how you can improve your application uptime and high availability. Oracle VM offers a variety of high availability features to ensure that business critical uptime is maximized. In this webinar, we will address how Oracle VM can help you:
Join Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) experts as they discuss "Enterprise VDI" in a free webinar hosted by Oracle.
Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure provides a complete solution for managing, hosting, and providing access to virtualized desktop operating systems hosted in the datacenter. Enterprise customers in particular will benefit from the centralized management and lower TCO of a VDI style architecture for their desktop deployments.
We're pretty excited about the Sun Ray Server Software and Thin Client hardware, as we are about the desktop in general: Windows desktops, Linux workstations, Solaris...all of it. We can deliver it all (not just Windows like those other guys...) through our Sun Ray and/or VDI infrastructure products.
This morning Oracle announced the latest Sun Ray Software 5 update. Sun Ray Software 5 delivers rich virtual desktop experience to users in a secure and cost-effective way using Oracle's Sun Ray Clients or traditional PCs.


The company's planned Oracle VM machine will knit together a server with integrated network switch and storage arrays as well as Oracle VM, Oracle VM Manager and preconfigured templates "ready to deploy," Phillips said on the fourth-quarter earnings call on Thursday.
The cover story in Oracle Magazine's July/Aug. issue, "The Virtual Enterprise", is of course focused on Virtualization! It gives a comprehensive overview of Oracle's "desktop to data-center" portfolio of virtualization products.
Join Oracle's virtualization technology experts for a webinar about installing, configuring and using Oracle VM Server for x86.
Details are as follows:
Wed., June 30, 2010
9am PDT
Register Now:
http://bit.ly/9wkXfn
Oracle VM server virtualization software is free to download and use.
Hope to see you on wed.
Regards,
Monica Kumar


By Roddy Rodstein

Big news today! A new release of VirtualBox packed full of innovation and improvements. Over the next few weeks we'll take a closer look at some of these new features in a lot more depth, but today we'll whet your appetite with the headline descriptions.