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.

• Oracle VM Manager Introduction
• Oracle VM Manager Resource Requirements
• Oracle VM Manager Prerequisites
• Oracle VM Manager Installation