Anyone interested in the Oracle VM may want to read Roddy Rodstein's underground manual on Oracle's server virtualization software. Broken down into seven topics, Rodstein, who is a member of the Virtualization and Linux team at Oracle, covers:

Introduction

Besides a history and a general description of the integrated virtualization solution, Rodstein also describes the Oracle Enterprise Manager and its function, and the Oracle VM templates, components, server, manager, and management pack. He features a matrix comparing the Oracle VM to VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, as well as a review of the other companies' products. Additionally, he reports on virtualization from Citrix and Red Hat.

Architectural Review

In this section, Rodstein provides an architectural review of Oracle VM Manager followed by an introduction to the Oracle VM server. His goal, he states, is to provide the architectural background to help plan, design and support an Oracle VM environment.

Hard and Soft Partitioning

Rodstein reviews hard and soft partitioning Oracle technologies with Oracle VM to help clarify how Oracle VM can be used with hard and soft partitioning to help manage Oracle enterprise technology license costs. He starts with a brief introduction to Oracle licensing, followed by a review of Oracle technology named user plus licensing, and then processor licensing with hard and soft partitioning using Oracle VM. The chapter concludes with hard partitioning examples and virtual CPU binding testing techniques.

Upgrading

The steps to upgrade all of the Oracle VM components from version 2.1.5 to version 2.2 are presented. He starts with an introduction to the upgrade process for Oracle VM Manager and Oracle VM server. A review of the upgrade options and upgrade prerequisites for both Oracle VM Manager and Oracle VM server are noted, as is the Unbreakable Linux Network to support the up2date upgrade option.

OVS Repository Configurations

Learn the basics on how to configure SAN, iSCSi and NFS OVS repositories for Oracle VM servers without using Oracle VM Manager. There is a brief overview of Oracle VM storage administration, followed by a review of Oracle VM storage options. The goal in this chapter is to have x number of Oracle VM servers connected to your LUN or LUNs, ready to be configured in a pool by Oracle VM Manager.

Guest Disk Storage Options

Oracle VM guest disks storage options are discussed, starting with file-backed block devices and the file-backed block device driver options, followed by physical backed block devices.

Manager Command Line Interface

Get an introduction to the Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface along with information on how to download it from Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network, install and configure it. Bulk command examples, batch scripting examples, and programming examples conclude this section. [...read more...]

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