Oracle's Virtualization Blog

Virtualization for 'Cloud' vs. "Traditional" Virtualization

By adam.hawley on November 10, 2009 1:35 PM

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...

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Oracle VM Template for PeopleSoft

By honglin.su on October 27, 2009 2:49 PM

You may notice today that Oracle VM template for Oracle PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 and PeopleTools 8.50.02 is ready for download from Oracle's E-Delivery web site. You can review the Installation Guide before downloading the template; or you can refer to...

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Oracle VM 2.2 New Feature: CPU Scheduling Priority and Cap

By honglin.su on October 26, 2009 11:13 AM

One of the new features in Oracle VM 2.2 is the ability to set virtual CPU scheduling priority and cap per VM from Oracle VM Manager, which enables you to control access to CPU between multiple virtual machines to align...

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Deploying Oracle VM 2.2 and Upgrading Oracle VM from 2.1.5 to 2.2

By honglin.su on October 21, 2009 9:27 PM

Oracle VM 2.2 was announced last week, bringing customers more benefits by providing better performance, scalability and security. In the next series of blogs, I'd like to cover some new features of Oracle VM 2.2. But first, how can I...

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Announcing Oracle VM Storage Connect Program and Oracle VM 2.2

By honglin.su on October 13, 2009 9:15 PM

At Oracle OpenWorld we had two major announcements for Oracle VM. One is the Oracle VM Storage Connect Program; and other one is Oracle VM 2.2 . Here I'd like to give a brief overview of the Oracle VM Storage...

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Oracle VM Blog: Linux and Virtualization Sessions at OpenWorld

By honglin.su on October 7, 2009 2:04 PM

Oracle OpenWorld 2009 will be held in Moscone Center, San Francisco on Oct. 11-15, 2009. Don't miss the many exciting Linux and Virtualization activities at Oracle OpenWorld, including expert-led sessions, technology demos, partners, customers, keynotes, and more! Use this daily...

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Oracle VM Templates for 3rd Party Software

By honglin.su on October 7, 2009 1:26 PM

Oracle VM Templates are complete, pre-installed and pre-configured software packaged as Oracle VM virtual machines (VMs) complete with an OS (Oracle Enterprise Linux). Customers enjoy the benefits of faster application deployment with Oracle VM Templates - for Oracle software as...

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Announcing Oracle VM Template Builder

By honglin.su on August 12, 2009 7:03 AM

We are pleased to announce the availability of Oracle VM Template Builder, an open source, graphical utility that makes it easy to use Oracle Enterprise Linux "Just enough OS" (JeOS) - based scripts for developing pre-packaged virtual machines for Oracle...

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Webcast: Roadmap for Oracle VM and Virtual Iron

By monica.kumar on July 31, 2009 9:12 AM

Oracle delivered a customer webcast last week welcoming Virtual Iron customers to the Oracle family! During the webcast, we outlined a high level roadmap for integration for Oracle VM and Virtual Iron technologies. View the webcast. Learn more about Oracle's...

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Announcing Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface (CLI)

By honglin.su on July 24, 2009 3:19 PM

We are pleased to announce that Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface (CLI) was released to Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) today. The CLI is written in Python and uses the Oracle VM Manager Web Services API to communicate with...

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Announcing Windows PV Drivers for Oracle VM

By honglin.su on July 14, 2009 6:41 AM

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Windows PV Drivers for Oracle VM to bring customer boosted network throughput and higher disk I/O while running Microsoft Windows guests in a virtual environment on Oracle VM. You can download...

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Oracle VM Blog: Xen Virtualization with Oracle: Commitment, Integration, Mission-critical Virtualization

By honglin.su on July 11, 2009 9:51 PM

The Xen Directions 2009 event was recently held in Berlin, Germany. Christian Rothe from Oracle presented the topic of Xen Virtualization with Oracle: Commitment, Integration, Mission-critical Virtualization at the event. I'd like to summarize the key points in this presentation....

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Oracle VM Blog: What's Safe?

By honglin.su on July 7, 2009 2:02 PM

Lot's of chatter out there today about VMware's migration program. Below are a few points for customers to consider… 1. Oracle is dedicated to the on-going support of Virtual Iron customers and has enhanced the support offering beyond what was...

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Announcing Oracle VM 2.1.5

By honglin.su on June 18, 2009 12:08 PM

We are pleased to announce the availability of Oracle VM 2.1.5, bringing customers and partners the benefits of better interoperability with the new Oracle VM Manager Web Services API. In addition, the latest Oracle VM 2.1.5 release has integrated accumulated...

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Oracle VM Blog: Upgrading Oracle VM Template for Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control from 10g R4 to 10g R5

By honglin.su on May 29, 2009 11:25 PM

I read the OTN Virtualization discussion forum. There's a question about upgrading the Oracle VM Template for Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control from 10g R4 to 10g R5. The question was answered and you can refer to the Metalink Doc...

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Oracle VM Blog: Oracle Buys Virtual Iron. Excellent.

By adam.hawley on May 13, 2009 11:05 AM

As you can imagine this is a very busy, very exciting day for me, but I just wanted to take a second between meetings to mention that today we announced Oracle's acquisition of Virtual Iron. Since the acquisition has not...

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Oracle VM Blog: Basics of Oracle VM

By honglin.su on May 8, 2009 3:28 PM

I'd like to cover some basics about Oracle VM, what's the difference between Oracle VM and RHEL Xen and how it's related to the open source Xen hypervisor. Oracle VM (http://www.oracle.com/virtualization) is Oracle's server virtualization and management solution for x86/x86-64...

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Oracle VM: A Peek Into the Future

By adam.hawley on May 7, 2009 12:42 PM

I haven't been blogging the last couple of weeks as I've had some internal deadlines, but luckily you've seen some good content from others on the Oracle VM team, including Honglin's entries below. This time, I want to call your...

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Oracle VM Blog: More Oracle VM Templates are available for download

By honglin.su on May 5, 2009 12:18 PM

Last August we released Oracle VM 2.1.2 and started providing customers free downloads of Oracle VM Templates that are pre-configured virtual machines containing pre-installed Oracle enterprise applications. Now more Oracle software are available as Oracle VM templates that can be...

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Oracle VM Blog: Converting Linux and Windows Physical and Virtual Machines to Oracle VM Virtual Machines

By honglin.su on April 28, 2009 3:20 PM

Oracle VM provides functionality to allow customers to easily convert and move Linux and Windows servers to run as guest virtual machines (VM) in Oracle VM Server Pools. We have the technical white paper: Converting Linux and Windows Physical and...

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