Oracle Virtualization Technology - Oracle VM 

Now that the Sun acquisition has closed, and we are one company, we can start talking to you about all the exciting things available in today's Oracle VM product line and where we are going. In the coming days and weeks, you can expect to see a number of new blog entries from a number of voices that may be new to this Oracle blog, but are definitely not new to virtualization.  We are tremendously excited to combine our portfolios and work side-by-side with our extremely talented Sun brethren to advance the state-of-the art in virtualization.

Certification of Solaris 10 as a guest OS on Oracle VM is in progress. Some of you may have already be playing around, so here are a few tips of how to install Solaris 10 OS as a virtual machine under Oracle VM 2.2 environment.

 Alison Holloway's Blog

I wanted to take a brief moment to explain an interesting feature that can be used since the release of both Oracle VM 2.2 and the Oracle VM 2.2 Manager template.

One of the new features in 2.2 is the ability to do master server failover. When you configure a server pool in HA mode you provide a virtual IP address. This virtual IP address points to the (a) node in the pool that has the role of pool master.

Honglin posted a new blog entry with detail about the newly released templates but I wanted to also post it here and share the link to his entry : Virtualization blog

We released several new Oracle VM Templates this week. They are Oracle VM Manager 2.2, Oracle VM Server 2.2 SDK, and Oracle VM Server 2.1.5 SDK.

 Oracle's Virtualization Blog

 Wim Coekaerts Blog

The great folks at the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) invited an artist over at Oracle World to create an Oracle Linux Penguin Lego painting. Now it finally arrived from the Oracle World grounds to the Oracle Warehouse to our floor in Redwood Shores at HQ and I took a few pictures of it.

it's awesome :)

The primary audience of this white paper is database and system administrators, storage administrators, and system architects who are responsible for implementing, managing, and supporting Oracle VM virtual infrastructures, and Oracle databases and storage systems. It is assumed that readers have some familiarity with Oracle VM, Oracle database aspects, and EMC Symmetrix, and are interested in achieving server and database virtualization, as well as higher database availability and protection

As my boss, Wim Coekaerts pointed out on his blog yesterday, there are a number of good, educational videos covering Oracle VM on YouTube, including coverage of some topics for Oracle VM 2.2 (the latest release). Very easy to find, just go to YouTube and search on Oracle VM (or Oracle VM 2.2 to see those specifically).

The Oracle Partner Network (OPN) team has created about 10 videos around Oracle VM 2.2, from installing Oracle VM, create vm, to live migrate, enabling HA etc.

They're very educational and can be found here :

http://www.youtube.com/user/OraclePartnerNetwork just go to the search field and type in Oracle VM.

We are pleased to announce that Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface (CLI) 2.2 has been released to Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) and Oracle's Public Yum Repository.

My, my...I just looked back and it has been almost exactly 6 months since my last post to this blog. The time has gone fast as we've been working hard on a number of things here ranging from the Virtual Iron acquisition integration (going nicely, thanks...) to a number of other projects that I'll talk about over the next few posts. I plan to get back into blogging much more regularly as I did all during the Spring.

This morning, our long time partner Zend issued a press release announcing how we are working together to make PHP/Zend Server more integrated with Oracle Enterprise Linux.

Oracle has been part of the virtualization software market for quite some time. I’ve been following their efforts since they developed technology to support Digital Equipment Corporation’s VAXcluster technology. Their Real Application Cluster (RAC) has been a good example of processing virtualization and their Oracle Cluster File System is an example of storage virtualization.