This article describes the different types of Oracle E-Business Suite virtual machine software packages available, and how they are appropriate for different situations.

The appliances, templates, and assemblies provided on the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud (https://edelivery.oracle.com/linux) all contain virtual machine images. These are intended for different purposes, but all allow you to install EBS rapidly and create an EBS virtual machine.

 

Here are some important terms related to Oracle’s VM offerings:

  • Oracle VM is Oracle’s own server virtualization platform. An Oracle VM template is one media format — the original media format — used to deliver a virtual machine within the Oracle VM framework.
  • Oracle VirtualBox is Oracle’s own desktop virtualization platform. An Oracle VM appliance uses an industry-standard media format to deliver a virtual machine on top of VirtualBox. Because appliances use an industry standard format, they can in principle be deployed on third party virtualization platforms, but Oracle does not test those platforms.
  • An Oracle VM Virtual Assembly is a format developed specifically for deployment using Enterprise Manager Cloud Control (EMCC). An assembly is powerful in that a single assembly contains multiple VM’s (not just a single VM like an appliance or a template) as well as the logic to connect those VM’s, allowing EMCC to install a multi-node system at the touch of a button. Customers who use Enterprise Manager and run Oracle VM can take advantage of these.
Note that Oracle VM Manager can now import Oracle VM appliances, so we have switched over to producing appliances wherever possible, giving a single set of virtual machine images that can be installed on a server, desktop or laptop. We do still produce VM templates for Exalogic (ex.: Oracle VM Templates For EBS 12.2.3 For Exalogic) because Enterprise Manager Operations Center (EMOC) currently only supports VM templates.

Summary of Usage

Virtual Appliances
  • Deploy an EBS VM on a desktop or laptop using Virtual Box
  • Deploy an EBS VM on a server using Oracle VM Manager
  • Manual setup required to add nodes and configure multi-node
VM Templates
  • Deploy an EBS VM on a server using Oracle VM Manager
  • Deploy an EBS VM on Exalogic using Enterprise Manager Operations Center
  • Manual setup required to add nodes and configure multi-node
Virtual Assemblies
  • Deploy EBS VM’s on a server or servers using Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
  • Automated installation of single or multi-node

Available Releases

Virtual Appliances

  Single Node Multi-Node MOS Doc ID
Oracle VM Virtual Appliances for Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.4
VIS
PROD, VIS
1928303.1
Oracle VM Virtual Appliances for Oracle  E-Business Suite 12.2.3
VIS
PROD, VIS
1620448.1
Oracle VM Virtual Appliances  for Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.3
VIS
PROD, VIS
1906691.1



VM Templates

  Single Node Multi-Node MOS Doc ID

Oracle VM Templates for Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.3 for Exalogic
n/a
PROD, VIS
1633952.1
Oracle VM Templates for Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.2
n/a
PROD, VIS
1590941.1
Oracle VM Templates  for Oracle  E-Business Suite 12.1.3 for Exalogic
n/a
VIS
1499132.1

 

Virtual Assemblies

  Single Node Multi-Node MOS Doc ID
Oracle Virtual Assemblies for Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.3
PROD
PROD
1904928.1
Oracle Virtual Assemblies for Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.3
PROD
PROD
1904928.1


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