Learn about Oracle VM for Dev, Test, and Cloud Migration
Happy New Year to all and best wishes for 2018. With Oracle VM, you are a step ahead because you can test and develop equally well on-premise or in the cloud using the same hypervisor and the same OSes as Oracle Cloud. And you can use Oracle VM to migrate workloads to the cloud. Learn more about Oracle VM by taking the Oracle VM Server for x86: Administration course in one of the following formats: Training-on-Demand: Start training straight away, following lecture delivery by...
Wednesday, January 3, 2018 | Oracle Virtualization | Read More
FRIDAY SPOTLIGHT: Oracle Virtualization Customer Review Videos
Happy Friday and holidays to everyone, in this week's blog we want to highlight some of the Oracle Virtualization customers that have talked about what they like about the product and how they use it. These videos are featured at IT Central Station website which is a yelp like review site for IT products and customers. Here are two examples, watch more in this site. Learn more about Oracle Virtualization.
Friday, December 22, 2017 | Read More
Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.2.4 now available!
Oracle has released VirtualBox 5.2 Maintenance Release 4. This release includes improvements and regression fixes for Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.2. Between them we can mention: User interface: Adjusting desktop file for X11 window managers and various high resolution display adjustments Audio: fixed SB16 volume handling and various fixes Linux hosts: fixed screen corruption when the host screen changes and a virtual machine window is maximized X11 Guest Additions: fixed a hang at the...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017 | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Upgrade to Oracle Private Cloud Appliance 2.3.2 from 2.3.1 with Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.2
Recently we announced the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance (PCA) software 2.3.2 release which adds support for the X7-2 compute nodes. The high level steps for the PCA 2.3.1 to 2.3.2 upgrade with Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c are as follows. If your PCA is not 2.3.1 then refer to My Oracle Support note 2242177.1 which includes steps for Oracle Enterprise Manager. - Update the required Enterprise Manager Plug-ins - Install patches on the Enterprise Manager 13.2 Server (OMS):-...
Friday, December 15, 2017 | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Latest Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Training Released
Oracle Private Cloud Appliance keeps getting better. To get the most out of this engineered system, read about the latest product release and sign up for the just released, Oracle Private Cloud Appliance: Administration training course. Oracle Private Cloud Appliance automates private cloud implementations in a cost-effective way. The Oracle Private Cloud Appliance: Administration training course teaches you to Review the hardware and software in the Private Cloud Appliance Mo...
Thursday, December 7, 2017 | Oracle VM | Read More
Announcing Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Software Release 2.3.2 and X7-2 Compute Nodes
Today, we are pleased to announce Oracle Private Cloud Appliance release 2.3.2. The patch can be downloaded from MOS using patch ID 26982346. The release is applicable to Private Cloud Appliance X3-2, X4-2 and X5-2. Here are some of the new features and enhancements in PCA Release 2.3.2: Support for X7-2 Compute Nodes The most notable change with this release is the support for Oracle X7-2 Compute nodes for PCA that are powered by two Intel® Xeon® 8160 processors with 24 cores...
Wednesday, December 6, 2017 | Private Cloud Appliance | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Hands on Oracle VM for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
As you know, on November 29th, we've announced Oracle VM for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This options allows to easily build an Oracle VM architecture on top of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure by using both Bare-Metal and Virtual-Machine instances. Getting started is very easy with the Oracle VM Requirements and Installation Guide and Oracle images for Server and Manager built, tested and certified by Oracle. So, there is no need to install Oracle VM Server because, thanks to the...
Friday, December 1, 2017 | Read More
Oracle VM on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Now you can bring Oracle VM workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Oracle VM makes enterprise applications easier to deploy, manage, and support. Backed worldwide by affordable enterprise-quality support for both Oracle and non-Oracle environments, Oracle VM reduces operations and support costs while increasing IT efficiency and agility. With "ready-to-run" Official images for Oracle VM Server and Oracle VM Manager, you can easily configure an Oracle VM architecture on top...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 | Oracle Virtualization | Read More
Learn how Oracle VM Powers Demanding Workloads
Oracle VM is a proven solution for enterprise tier-1 applications. Oracle VM powers the most demanding customer workloads on Oracle Engineered Systems, as well as workloads on and off cloud. If you already experienced in installing Oracle VM, further your skills by taking the Oracle VM Server for x86: Implementation course. This course is available in the following formats: Training-on-Demand: Start training straight away. Follow lecture delivery by expert instructors through...
Monday, November 27, 2017 | Oracle Virtualization | Read More
Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.2.2 now available!
Oracle has released VirtualBox 5.2 Maintenance Release 2. This release includes improvements and regression fixes for Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1. Between them we can mention following regressions, now fixed: GUI: various improvements for high resolution screens and virtual media manager Shared clipboard: fixed hang with OS X host and Linux guest Linux Guests: added support for kernel 4.14 Storage: fixed regression breaking iSCSI Linux Guests: fixed various regressions introduced by...
Friday, November 24, 2017 | Read More
Build your own Enterprise Private Cloud with Oracle Private Cloud Appliance
There are many reasons to adopt Oracle Private Cloud Appliance when building your own Enterprise Private Cloud. With Private Cloud Appliance you get IaaS out-of-the box in minutes. The combination of Private Cloud Appliance and Oracle Enterprise Manager delivers self-service portal, metering and chargeback, and all with no additional license required. To get the most out of Private Cloud Appliance, take the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance: Administration training. You can take...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017 | Oracle Virtualization | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Security Patch Set Updates for Oracle Secure Global Desktop 5.3
New Security and JVM Patches Now Available We have released an important Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Secure Global Desktop (SGD) in parallel with Oracle's October 2017 CPU, 5.3p2. PSUs are maintenance patch roll-ups, and include critical security and stability fixes for identified maintenance platforms. The following reference documentation has been updated in parallel with these releases, and includes detailed information regarding the content of these updates, as well...
Friday, November 17, 2017 | Desktop Virtualization | Read More
FRIDAY SPOTLIGHT: November Events - Oracle Linux and Virtualization
November is here and we have some great sessions and events coming up. Attend one of our events to learn more about Oracle Linux and Virtualization. DOAG Conference November 21-24 Nuremberg, Germany Wim Coekaerts, SVP of Oracle Linux and Virtualization Engineering will have a Keynote "How Linux is Transforming the Cloud" Register today to attend. CLOUD DAYS We also have great Cloud Days around the globe, don't forget to attend one. Register today
Saturday, November 4, 2017 | Read More
FRIDAY SPOTLIGHT : Best Development Platform for Developers - and it is Free!
You don't need to stress about having to install multiple OS platforms when you can use VirtualBox. VirtualBox is powerful Cross-platform Virtualization Software for x86-based systems. "Cross-platform" means that it installs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris x86 computers. And "Virtualization Software" means that you can create and run multiple Virtual Machines, running different operating systems, on the same computer at the same time. For example, you can run Windows...
Friday, October 27, 2017 | Oracle VM VirtualBox | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Use SGD to automatically provision and access OCI VM serial consoles
I have created a Proof of Concept (POC) how to use the Python SDK to manage access to VM serial consoles in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This POC currently is implemented by creating an Oracle Secure Global Desktop (SGD) application that launches a python script on the SGD server. Problem Statement There is a feature for VM shapes provisioned in OCI that allows to create a connection to the serial console of the VM to troubleshoot issues that might have occurred when...
Friday, October 20, 2017 | Oracle Secure Global Desktop | Read More
Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.2 is now available!
Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.2 delivers security updates and cumulative bug fixes since the previous 5.1 major release. Notable enhancements in this release: VM export to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic (OCI Classic) format Automatic, unattended guest OS installation for Oracle VM VirtualBox Virtual Machines Improved Virtual Machine Tools, including a new dynamic interface to manage Virtual Machine configuration and snapshot capabilities New Global Tools handling Virtual Media...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 | Desktop Virtualization | Read More
Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.30 now available!
Oracle has released VirtualBox 5.1 Maintenance Release 30. This release includes improvements and regression fixes for Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1. Between them we can mention following regressions, now fixed: GUI: translation updates GUI: Fixed double mouse cursor when using mouse integration without Guest Additions Windows Additions: 3D related crash fix Solaris hosts: introduced support for jumbo frames Linux hosts: glibc 2.26 compile fix See all the details here with a complete...
Monday, October 16, 2017 | Read More
Oracle OpenWorld 2017 Recap, Presentations and Content
We had an amazing Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco this year! Just check out some of the numbers above. Over 60,000 attendees,18 million+ online views, thousands of sessions with speakers from over 90 countries. However, If you were not able to attend, no worries! You can still access much of the content online. Here's a quick recap for you: Watch Keynotes online Download Oracle Linux and Virtualization presentation slides: Five Key Steps to Automating Your Workload Migration...
Monday, October 16, 2017 | Read More
FRIDAY SPOTLIGHT: United Airlines slashes downtime to update server fleet
Happy Friday! It had been a very busy week for us wrapping up Oracle OpenWorld and gathering information for you to understand key news and activities during that time if you have not attended this great event in person. Please monitor this blog and Oracle Linux blog for detailed Oracle OpenWorld re-cap on Monday, October 16. During Oracle OpenWorld one of our customers United Airlines had a great presentation about kernel patching and how to avoid downtime with Oracle KSplice ...
Friday, October 13, 2017 | Read More
Oracle VM VirtualBox Bolsters LeVAULT Security Software Solution
At Oracle OpenWorld 2017, Comet Enterprises announced and demonstrated a new solution that embeds Oracle VM VirtualBox with its cutting-edge LeVAULT security software. With flexible, advanced multifactor authentication bundled with Oracle VM VirtualBox, the new solution allows users to easily secure the host, client, and back-end servers. The LeVAULT with Oracle VM VirtualBox solution features the full LeVAULT security product combined with a hosted virtual...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017 | Desktop Virtualization | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Advanced, On-Line Oracle VM Training Now Available
The Oracle VM Server for x86: Implementation training course is now available on-line. In the Training-on-Demand format, you can start training straight away. The lectures are delivered by an expert instructor, and you can follow them at your own pace. You can get hands-on experience by book time on the course lab environment when suits your schedule. In this course you will learn how to enhance cloud effectiveness with rapid deployment of cloud resources and applications....
Friday, October 6, 2017 | Oracle Virtualization | Read More
Last Day of Oracle OpenWorld 2017
Today is the last day of the Oracle OpenWorld 2017 conference. Good times fly! The conference starts the day with the Java Community Keynote and continues with great developer sessions.There are no Oracle Linux and Virtualization sessions or events today. We hope you were able to join the fun at last night's Cloud Fest concert at AT&T park! And we hope you have found the Oracle Linux and Virtualization conference sessions, hand-on labs, Dev-live talks, demo pods and mini...
Thursday, October 5, 2017 | Virtualization | Read More
OOW17: Your Wednesday Guide
On this fourth day of the conference, we have many great Oracle Linux and Virtualization sessions and hands-on labs that we hope you can attend. These are the last sessions for us at the conference this year: We have 4 conference sessions at the Marriott Marquis: 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. - DevOps Best Practices for Your Cloud Deployment [CON6743] @ Marriott Marquis (Yerba Buena Level) - Salon 13 3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. - Easy, Rapid Deployment of Oracle Database and Oracle RAC with...
Wednesday, October 4, 2017 | Read More
OOW17: Your Tuesday Guide
Today starts with the Keynote: Oracle's Integrated Cloud Platform, Intelligent Cloud Applications, and Emerging Technologies for Business where Thomas Kurian and Dave Donatelli detail how Oracle Cloud helps your business seize opportunity in a rapidly changing and increasingly competitive environment. Then the Oracle Linux and Virtualization team has prepared a variety of topics for you to choose from: Stop by our demogrounds at Moscone West which opens at 11 am today, to talk...
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 | Virtualization | Read More
OOW17: Your Monday Guide
Did you enjoy your Sunday at the conference? Did you like having conference sessions starting right on Sunday? Well, we have a great line up of sessions and hand-on labs on Oracle Linux and Virtualization topics for you today. The day starts with the 9:00 AM Keynote:The Cloud: Transformational. Innovative. Foundational. where Oracle CEO Mark Hurd and Oracle customers—Bloom Energy, FedEx and Gap— look at where we are now and where we're headed in a cloud foundational world. Righ...
Monday, October 2, 2017 | Virtualization | Read More
Oracle OpenWorld 2017: Your Sunday Guide
On this first day of Oracle OpenWorld 2017 in beautiful San Francisco, there are many exciting events and sessions for you to attend and start the conference on the right note. This year, for the first time, we have two conference sessions on Sunday. Both are @ Moscone South - Room 152 : 10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - Five Key Steps to Automating Your Workload Migration to Cloud [SUN6469] 1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. - Migrating Your Traditional Data Center to Open Cloud...
Sunday, October 1, 2017 | Virtualization | Read More
Top 10 Things to Do at Oracle OpenWorld 2017
Oracle OpenWorld begins this Sunday in the beautiful city of San Francisco. We hope to see you there, where you will not only have access to so many sessions, training opportunities and insights from experts and peers, but can also have lots of fun! Top 10 Things To Do at OOW17 1. Attend the Keynotes by Larry Ellison, Mark Hurd, Dave Donatelli and many other key executives. 2. Register for Oracle Linux and Virtualization General Sessions by Edward Screven, Ajay Srivastava and...
Friday, September 29, 2017 | Virtualization | Read More
Security Challenges when moving into the Cloud
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal described an increasing danger of companies exposing sensitive information after a move to the cloud. Services and data that used to live in tightly controlled data centers on a companies premises, often not even accessible from the open internet, have been migrated into cloud-hosted environments. Along the way, configuration mistakes might have been made, or third parties were given access to facilitate the transition. While cloud...
Thursday, September 28, 2017 | Oracle Secure Global Desktop | Read More
Oracle OpenWorld 2017: Oracle Linux and Virtualization Demogrounds
With only 8 days left to Oracle OpenWorld 2017, we would like to highlight what you can find in the demogrounds this year for Oracle Linux and Virtualization. In addition the sessions and hands-on labs we have the following demonstrations at Moscone West exhibit hall in the IT infrastructure area: Secure and Agile Orchestration for Docker ContainersIn this demo, see how building a secure and agile production environment can be simple when you leverage Docker containers...
Friday, September 22, 2017 | Virtualization | Read More
Take Latest Oracle VM Administration Training Online
By taking the Oracle VM Server for x86: Administration training course, you will learn to build the infrastructure for open cloud computing and to deploy pooled server resources, so creating virtual machines that support enterprise applications. You can take the latest Oracle VM training on-line, at your own pace through the Training-on-Demand format. In this training format, you: Start training straight away Follow lecture material delivered by an expert instructor Determine...
Monday, September 18, 2017 | Oracle Virtualization | Read More
Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.2 Beta 3 released!
Oracle is proud to announce Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.2 Beta 3. This release includes following improvements and regression fixes for Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.2 Beta 2. Please do NOT use this VirtualBox Beta release on production machines. A VirtualBox Beta release should be considered a bleeding-edge release meant for early evaluation and testing purposes. All the details are available here. Please use our VirtualBox Beta Feedback forum to report any problems with the Beta. Please...
Monday, September 18, 2017 | Oracle Virtualization | Read More
Oracle OpenWorld 2017: Oracle Linux and Virtualization Hands-on Labs
Happy Friday Everyone! Last week, we covered our conference sessions and this week we are focusing on the Hands-on Labs for Oracle Linux and Virtualization at Oracle OpenWorld. These sessions provide great learning opportunity working on the products directly with product experts. Migration to the Oracle Open Cloud Infrastructure In this hands-on lab learn different methods of migrating services running on legacy and proprietary virtualization solutions such as VMware to...
Friday, September 15, 2017 | Virtualization Horizontal | Read More
Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.28 now available!
Oracle has released VirtualBox 5.1 Maintenance Release 28. This release includes improvements and regression fixes for Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1. Between them we can mention following regressions, now fixed: GUI: mouse events did not reach host windows behind the transparent VM window (Mac OS X hosts only) Audio: different fixes related to accidental crash with AC'97, or if default input/output devices have change Audio: fixed recording when using the ALSA backend Audio: fixed...
Thursday, September 14, 2017 | Read More
Installing Secure Cloud Access Solution on-premises or in the Cloud
Customers are facing challenges to provide remote access to the console, desktop, or application environments in the Cloud or on premises while ensuring privileged user access to data. How do you access the full Linux desktop environment for application or database installation and administration without the pain to set up the VNC access? Oracle Secure Global Desktop (SGD) is the secure remote access solution for any cloud-hosted enterprise applications and desktops running...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017 | Oracle Secure Global Desktop | Read More
Oracle OpenWorld 2017: Oracle Linux and Virtualization Sessions
We have an exciting set of Oracle Linux and Virtualization sessions lined up for you at Oracle OpenWorld this year. Last week we listed our General sessions and keynotes, this week we want to provide you the full list of our sessions: Sunday Oct 1: Five Key Steps to Automating Your Workload Migration to Cloud [SUN6469] Migrating Your Traditional Data Center to Open Cloud Infrastructure [SUN6533] Partner Sessions: OPN Central: Drive New Cloud Opportunities with Oracle’s...
Friday, September 8, 2017 | Virtualization Horizontal | Read More
Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Integrated with Oracle Cloud
Oracle Private Cloud Appliance brings you on-premise infrastructure integrated with Oracle Cloud. With Private Cloud Appliance, you get storage and infrastructure designed for enterprise applications. Oracle has worked to bring you a single architecture for both public and private cloud, designed from the beginning to work together. To be ready to exploit all the benefits of this solution, take the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance: Administration course. You can take this...
Tuesday, September 5, 2017 | Oracle Virtualization | Read More
Oracle OpenWorld 2017 Keynotes and General Sessions
Happy Friday! We are exactly one month away from Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. As we begin our countdown, the following are the keynotes and general sessions that might be of interest to you. General Session: Strategies for Building Open, Cloud-Ready Infrastructure GEN6456Core business functions in the front and back office are moving from enterprise data centers to the cloud. As public and private cloud features, quality of service, and operational advantages grow and...
Friday, September 1, 2017 | Virtualization Horizontal | Read More
Announcing certification of Oracle VM 3.4.4 with Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c releases 13.2 and 13.2PG
We are pleased to announce that Oracle VM 3.4.4 is certified with Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c releases 13.2 and 13.2PG. This enables the registration, monitoring and management of Oracle VM 3.4.4 with these two releases. Oracle VM is registered, monitored and managed with Oracle Enterprise Manager using this documentation from the Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Administration Guide. For further information on the new features of Oracle VM 3.4.4 please refer here. For...
Thursday, August 31, 2017 | Read More
Announcing Oracle VM Release 3.4.4
Now available - Oracle VM Release 3.4.4! Oracle VM is engineered for open cloud infrastructure. It delivers leading performance, scalability and reliability for enterprise SaaS and PaaS workloads as well as traditional enterprise applications. What's New? Oracle VM Release 3.4.4 offers updated versions of all components, delivering security updates and cumulative bug fixes since the previous 3.4.3 release. The notable enhancements with this release are: Support for the...
Friday, August 25, 2017 | Oracle VM Server for SPARC | Read More
What’s new in Oracle OpenWorld 2017?
Oracle OpenWorld 2017, the industry's most important business and technology conference for the past 20 years, takes place at San Francisco’s Moscone Center October 1 through 5 of this year. Whether you're just starting, growing, or an established organization, at Oracle OpenWorld you'll find the latest in industry and product thought leadership. In addition to updates and insight on products such as on Oracle Virtualization, this year there will be new session formats that...
Friday, August 25, 2017 | Oracle Virtualization | Read More
Oracle VM Training to Leverage Faster Deployment and Simpler Management
Join the many enterprises using Oracle VM. These companies benefit from: Faster deployment and simpler management The ability to make existing infrastructure cloud-ready Xen, the hypervisor for vendor neutral hardware For the best user experience with Oracle VM, take the Oracle VM training on x86 or SPARC: Oracle VM Server for x86: Administration Training-on-Demand: Start training straight away, following lecture delivery by expert instructors through streaming video, at your own...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 | Training | Read More
Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.5 Released!
Now available - Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.5 Today Oracle announces Oracle VM Server for SPARC Release 3.5 What's New with Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.5 We are pleased to announce the release of Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.5, which has been delivered as part of Oracle Solaris 11.3.23.5.0 Support Repository Update (Oracle Solaris 11.3 SRU 23.5.0). Together, they provide new features for virtualization, performance, security, scalability, and system management. Oracle VM...
Monday, August 21, 2017 | Oracle VM Server for SPARC | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Oracle VM Templates for Oracle Database 12c Release 2
We are pleased to announce the release of Oracle VM Templates for Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2.0.1) - Single Instance and Real Application Clusters. The templates are designed to provide a fast and easy way of deploying Single Instance or Oracle RAC cluster in Oracle VM for test as well as production environments. The new Oracle VM Templates for Oracle Database are built with Oracle Linux 7. You can download the templates from Oracle Software Delivery Cloud under...
Friday, August 18, 2017 | Oracle VM | Read More
Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.2 Beta 2 released!
Oracle is proud to announce Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.2 Beta 2. This release includes following improvements and regression fixes for Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.2 Beta 1: GUI: permanently save tools layout GUI: don't allow to decrease the size of a medium as this is not implemented Audio: fixed distortions when using the PulseAudio backend Audio: fixed recording when using the ALSA backend Linux Additions: support RHEL 7.4 Mac OS X hosts: fixed a GUI crash if Spotlight is used from file...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017 | Oracle Virtualization | Read More
SGD Web Server Patch August 2017
We have released an important set of Apache Web Server Updates for Oracle Secure Global Desktop (SGD). The following reference documentation has been updated in parallel with these releases, and includes detailed information regarding the content of these updates for various platforms, as well as instructions for procuring and installing the patches in existing SGD deployments: SGD 5.3 Web Server Updates for Secure Global Desktop 5.3 (Doc ID 2260412.1) SGD 5.2 Web Server...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017 | Desktop Virtualization | Read More
FRIDAY SPOTLIGHT: You are Invited to Plan and Implement Business Continuity Webcast
Plan and Implement Your Business Continuity Solution for Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure Increase your infrastructure resiliency for disaster recovery, planned switchovers or data center migrations. August 16, 2017 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET Register Now One of the most crucial aspects of cloud infrastructure is a robust business continuity and disaster recovery strategy. Implementing a comprehensive disaster recovery plan can be a daunting task. It’s something that...
Friday, August 11, 2017 | Oracle Virtualization | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.2 Beta 1 released!
Oracle is proud to announce Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.2 Beta 1. Highlights of this beta release include: Main Enhancements: VM export to Oracle Public Cloud Automatic guest OS installation (see enhancement request #5810 and VirtualBox manual for further details) Improved Virtual Machine selector GUI Improved Virtual Machine Tools and Global Tools handling New GUI icons Main Fixes: GUI: improvements with accessibility support Audio: implemented (optional) device enumeration support...
Friday, August 4, 2017 | Oracle Virtualization | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Oracle VM release 3.4.2 is Microsoft SVVP Certified
Oracle VM SVVP Certification Oracle has been a part of the Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) program and validated previous versions of Oracle VM. The Oracle VM team is committed to continuing our support for users that are running Windows Server guests on Oracle VM Server for x86. With the recent introduction of two new Oracle VM releases, a new test certification has now been completed to validate the following components under the Microsoft SVVP: Ora...
Friday, July 28, 2017 | Oracle VM Server for x86 | Read More
Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.26 now available!
Oracle has released VirtualBox 5.1 Maintenance Release 26. This release includes improvements and regression fixes for Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1. Between them we can mention following 5.1.24 regressions, now fixed: Audio: fixed a memory leak when enabled with VRDP connections Linux hosts: properly bring up host-only network interfaces with iproute Windows guests: fixed automatic logons for Vista and newer Windows guests Further fixes not strictly related to release 5.1.24 See all...
Thursday, July 27, 2017 | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Keep Your Cloud Infrastructure Secure and Up to Date
Security vulnerabilities have potential impact to your cloud infrastructure. How can you address the security issues more effectively? It's important to maintain your cloud infrastructure up to date. Oracle provides the technology and solutions that can help you accomplish your business goals. Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel is the recommended kernel for your mission critical deployment, whether it's for Oracle or non-Oracle workloads. With Premier Support, you can use...
Friday, July 21, 2017 | Oracle VM | Read More
Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.24 now available!
Oracle has released VirtualBox 5.1 Maintenance Release 24. This release includes improvements and regression fixes for Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1. Between them we can mention following regressions, now fixed: Linux Host/Guest: fixes dedicated to 4.12/4.13 kernels and further improvements VMM: masked AMD Ryzen VME CPUID to have legacy platform running on this CPU and more SSE2 instruction-sets GUI: more fixes dedicated to multi display with fullscreen/seamless mode enabled AUDIO:...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017 | Desktop Virtualization | Read More
Partner Spotlight: Cloudbase Coriolis and seamless migration to Oracle VM
Cloudbase Solutions is an innovative company committed to cloud computing and interoperability that, in 2016, announced the release of their product Coriolis - Cloud Migration as a Service. Migrating existing Windows and Linux workloads between clouds is a necessity for a large number of use cases, especially while moving from traditional high-costs virtualization technologies like VMware vSphere to new modern virtualization technologies, available both on-premise and...
Friday, July 14, 2017 | Oracle Virtualization | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Oracle Secure Global Desktop Use Cases in the Cloud
Nowadays the "Cloud" provides us helpful services, primarily accessed either within an App, or directly by web browser if it is a web based application. The benefit for the customer is the ability to dynamically grow or shrink their footprint, based on demand, and not worry about how the service is built, the security involved and the reliability. The service is there. The service is provided with servers, storage, database, network etc. This is called the cloud...
Friday, July 7, 2017 | Oracle Secure Global Desktop | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Maximizing Cloud Resources with Oracle VM Training
Server virtualization is the first step to delivery of application and cloud services. In your Oracle VM environment, you can deploy and redeploy standardized and pre-configured software appliances to meet workload objectives. And you can redistribute physical and virtual resources to optimize your application workload. Those new to Oracle VM Server for x86 can take the Oracle VM Server for x86: Administration course which is available in the following formats: Training-on-Dema...
Friday, June 30, 2017 | Oracle Virtualization | Read More
Announcing certification of Oracle VM 3.4.3 with Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c releases 13.2 and 13.2PG
We are pleased to announce that Oracle VM 3.4.3 is certified with Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c releases 13.2 and 13.2PG. This enables the registration, monitoring and management of Oracle VM 3.4.3 with these two releases. Oracle VM is registered, monitored and managed with Oracle Enterprise Manager using this documentation from the Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Administration Guide. For further information on the exciting new features of Oracle VM 3.4.3 please refer...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 | Read More
Announcing enhanced Enterprise Manager 13c Virtualization Plug-in to support the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance version 2.3.1
We are delighted to announce the release of the Oracle Enterprise Manager Virtualization plug-in (13.2.3.0.0). This plug-in provides support for the monitoring and management of the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance version 2.3.1 components and Oracle VM Manager 3.4.2. The plug-in is available for download via the self update process of Oracle Enterprise Manager and will soon be available via the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). The following are useful documentation links...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Announcing Oracle Private Cloud Appliance 2.3.1
We’re pleased to announce Oracle Private Cloud Appliance release 2.3.1. This release builds on our strategy to deliver a uniquely flexible and future proof private cloud solution. The solution supports any mix of workloads, making it ideal for 3-tier application consolidation, a key step on the journey to cloud. With the latest release, we’ve enhanced the software and hardware infrastructure, and simplified manageability. Improved Software Infrastructure With the latest...
Friday, June 23, 2017 | Read More
Friday Spotlight: New Oracle VM Server for x86 Implementation Training Released
The Oracle VM Server for x86: Implementation course has been updated to cover Oracle VM 3.4 so now is the moment to deepen your knowledge of Oracle VM. This 3-day course is ideal for those who are already familiar with installing and configuring Oracle VM and want to learn about: Administering the Oracle VM environment by using the appropriate management tools Redeploying cloud resources Tracking and solving issues at each operational layer Protecting Oracle VM resources Incorporat...
Friday, June 16, 2017 | Oracle VM Server for x86 | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Attend "Best Practices for Rapid Oracle Database Deployment" Webinar
REGISTER TODAY Webcast & Live Chat: Oracle VM Templates Best Practices for Rapid Oracle Database Deployment June 21, 201710:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET Register Now Get 10X Faster Deployment Today's businesses are demanding IT to deliver more new services faster than ever before. IT needs to rapidly deploy multi-tier applications reliably and consistently. With more than 100 prebuilt, preconfigured, pretested templates for Oracle applications, Oracle has done the heavy lifting for...
Friday, June 9, 2017 | Oracle Virtualization | Read More
New Self-Paced Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Training
Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is an engineered system that radically simplifies the way customers install, deploy and manage converged infrastructures for Oracle Linux and Oracle Solaris applications. To learn more, you can take the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance: Administration training in the Training-on-Demand format. The Training-on-Demand format permits you to: Start training straight away, no need to wait for a scheduled event Follow streaming video of an...
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 | Private Cloud Appliance | Read More
Friday Spotlight: DevOps with Linux and Virtualization
In this week's Friday spotlight we wanted show you an interview that was recorded during Oracle Code event in Moscow with Simon Coter, Product Management Director for Oracle VM and VirtualBox, who talks about How DevOps can use Oracle Linux, Oracle VM and VirtualBox in their platforms. Learn more about Oracle Linux and Oracle Virtualization.
Friday, June 2, 2017 | Oracle Virtualization | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Oracle VM Server and Hyper-Threading Technology
Oracle VM Server is an efficient virtualization platform that works with a wide variety of server types, configurations, and workloads. One question that often comes up is whether hyperthreading (formally, Intel Hyper-threading technology, or HTT) is good for performance. When hyperthreading is enabled, every CPU core has two CPU threads instead of one. A server with 8 cores would appear to have 16 CPU threads. If one thread is idle or stalls on a cache miss, the other thread...
Friday, May 26, 2017 | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Security and Patch Updates to Secure Global Desktop
We've now publicly released an important set of patch set updates for Oracle Secure Global Desktop (SGD) in parallel with Oracle's April 2017 Critical Patch Update (CPU). The patch set updates include security and stability fixes for SGD releases 5.3, 5.2 and 4.71. The following reference documentation has been updated in parallel with these releases, and includes detailed information regarding the content of these updates for various platforms, as well as instructions for...
Friday, May 19, 2017 | Oracle Secure Global Desktop | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Migrate Virtual Machines from VMware to Oracle VM
We are very pleased to announce a new whitepaper and tool that help customers migrate virtual machines from VMware to Oracle VM. More and more customers would like to move away from the high cost and proprietary virtualization solution to the open cloud infrastructure built on Oracle Linux and Oracle VM. In this white paper, we discuss 4 methods to approach what was a painful migration from VMware to Oracle VM; in fact, into this whitepaper you'll find 4 different...
Friday, May 12, 2017 | Oracle Virtualization | Read More
Announcing Oracle VM Release 3.4.3
Now available - Oracle VM Release 3.4.3! Oracle VM is engineered for open cloud infrastructure. It delivers leading performance, scalability and reliability for enterprise SaaS and PaaS workloads as well as traditional enterprise applications. What's New? Oracle VM Release 3.4.3 offers updated versions of all components, delivering new features, security updates and cumulative bug fixes since the previous 3.4.2 release. The notable enhancements with this release are: The...
Friday, May 12, 2017 | Oracle VM Server for SPARC | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Updated Oracle VM Virtual Appliance for Oracle E-Business Suite
Continuing along the road related to the benefits of Oracle VM Templates (see our announcement last week, related to updated Oracle VM Templates for Oracle Database), today we are pleased to congratulate with Oracle E-Business Suite Team for bringing us Oracle VM Virtual Appliance for E-Business Suite 12.2.6. You can use this virtual appliance to create an Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.6 Vision demonstration instance on a single, unified virtual machine containing both the...
Friday, May 5, 2017 | Oracle VM | Read More
Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.22 now available!
Oracle has released VirtualBox 5.1 Maintenance Release 22. This release includes improvements and regression fixes for Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1. Between them we can mention following regression for 5.1.20, now fixed: Linux Additions: fixed mount.vboxsf symlink problem (5.1.20 regression) Storage: fixed a potential hang under rare circumstances VMM: fixed software virtualization on Solaris hosts (5.1.20 regressionn) See all the details here with a complete list of bug fixes; here ...
Tuesday, May 2, 2017 | Desktop Virtualization | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Updated Oracle VM Templates for Oracle Database
One of the key benefits of Oracle's Open Cloud Infrastructure, based on Oracle Linux and Oracle VM, is rapid application deployment. Oracle VM Templates provide a framework that fully automates the creation of a Single Instance, Oracle Restart (Single Instance/HA) or Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) configurations in an Oracle VM environment. In a matter of minutes, instead of hours compared to other solutions, the versatile and powerful Oracle VM Templates for Oracle...
Friday, April 28, 2017 | Oracle VM | Read More
Announcing Oracle VM Windows PV Driver Release 3.4.2
Welcome to the new blog platform! Today Oracle announces the Oracle VM Windows PV Driver Release 3.4.2. The Oracle VM virtualization solution is engineered for open cloud infrastructure. It delivers leading performance, scalability and reliability for enterprise SaaS and PaaS workloads as well as traditional enterprise applications. Oracle VM Support offers access to award-winning Oracle support resources and virtualization support specialists, zero-downtime updates using...
Friday, April 28, 2017 | Oracle VM Server for x86 | Read More
New Blog Design Coming Soon!
Hello Oracle Virtualization blog fans, We are moving Oracle Virtualization blog to a new platform to : Make it easy for you see list of articles Improve user experience and graphics Provide an option to subscribe to the blog View on multiple platforms like desktop, mobile and tablets and many more.. Don't forget to check out the new design and subscribe to the newly designed blog. See you at the new blog!
Friday, April 7, 2017 | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Running Oracle Linux as a Logical Domain on SPARC
Oracle recently announced Oracle Linux 6 Update 7 (SPARC) available as a developer release for the benefit of developers and partners. Now you can install Oracle Linux in a guest domain under Oracle VM Server for SPARC managed by Oracle VM Manager or OpenStack. A simple installation in a logical domain could look like the following commands, which define a simple guest domain with 4 CPU cores (32 virtual CPU threads), 32GB of RAM, a single network device, and avirtual disk and...
Thursday, April 6, 2017 | Oracle VM Server for SPARC | Read More
Friday Spotlight: VirtualBox Extension Pack & Guest Additions
Oracle VM VirtualBox is cross-platform virtualization software that allows you to extend your existing computer to run multiple operating systems at the same time. Designed for IT professionals and developers, Oracle VM VirtualBox runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Oracle Solaris for x86 systems and is ideal for testing, developing, demonstrating and deploying solutions across multiple platforms on one machine. With a highly-regarded reputation for speed and agility, Oracle...
Friday, March 31, 2017 | Oracle VM VirtualBox | Read More
Partner Spotlight: Stratodesk
Content contributed by Margaret Errington. Among the hundreds of partners offering a rich ecosystem for Oracle customers, today we are happy to feature Stratodesk, a company that specializes in a hardware agnostic “thin” endpoint operating system for VDI and Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) environments. Are you ready for virtualized desktops, but the costs are too high? What if you could remove the hardware costs and the antivirus costs? Reduce the windows licensing costs? Would...
Tuesday, March 28, 2017 | Desktop Virtualization | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Manual Installation and Launch of the SGD client
Oracle Secure Global Desktop (SGD) users running certain browsers (Mozilla Firefox 52.0 or later as well as Google Chrome) may report an inability to successfully connect to Secure Global Desktop. An alternative method is provided to mitigate impact to SGD users by manually starting the native SGD client (gcc on Windows, ttatcc on Linux, Solaris and OS X for example). Simply download the client for the appropriate OS from the server you want to connect to, install and launch...
Friday, March 24, 2017 | Oracle Secure Global Desktop | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Using Oracle KSplice to update Oracle VM Server without rebooting
Oracle Ksplice is an exciting new addition to the Premier Support subscription for Oracle VM 3. Oracle Ksplice technology allows you to update systems with new kernel security errata (CVE) without the need to reboot. This enables you to remain current with OS vulnerability patches while minimizing downtime. Oracle Ksplice actively applies updates to the running kernel image, instead of making on-disk changes that would take effect only after a subsequent reboot. Ksplice was...
Friday, March 17, 2017 | Oracle VM Server for x86 | Read More
Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.18 now available for download!
Oracle has released VirtualBox 5.1 Maintenance Release 18. This release includes improvements and regression fixes for Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1. Between them we can mention following regression for 5.1.16, now fixed: Shared Folders: fixed case insensitive filename access Shared Folders: fixed access to long pathes API: make 32-bit Windows guests in raw mode boot again if the ICH9 chipset is used Windows Additions: fixed automatic logins for Windows Vista and newer See all the...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 | Oracle VM VirtualBox | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Release 2 (13.2.0.0), Plug-ins Update 1
We are pleased to announce the Plug-in Update 1 of Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.2 was released to OTN for download. Many plug-ins were updated in this release, including the Enterprise Manager for Virtualization (13.2.2.0.0) plug-in, also known as the Virtualization (VT) plug-in. This plug-in provides support for management of the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance and Oracle VM Server from Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.2. For Oracle VM server the VT plug-in provides the...
Friday, March 10, 2017 | Oracle VM | Read More
Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.16 now available for download!
Oracle has released VirtualBox 5.1 Maintenance Release 16. This release includes improvements and regression fixes for Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1. Between them we can mention: GUI: improved error handling on global settings/networking stuff GUI: improved experience with multiple screens OVF: ability to handle more than 10 vNICs and fixes to manage appliances with many disks Windows hosts: fixed a crash with recent Windows 10 builds if 3D is disabled Linux hosts: Kernel 4.10 fixes for...
Thursday, March 9, 2017 | Oracle VM VirtualBox | Read More
Partner Spotlight: Storware
Content contributed by Margaret Errington Storware is an innovative company providing advanced and simplified data management platforms for businesses. Storware touches the world of endpoints, desktops, physical and virtual servers. We are dedicated to developing systems that increase mobile workforce productivity and enterprise data protection offered both on premise and as a cloud service. Our products help to backup and restore virtual machines, minimize results of...
Tuesday, March 7, 2017 | Oracle VM | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Upcoming Oracle Linux and Virtualization Events
You are responsible for providing the underpinnings for developing and deploying next-generation applications and services. As your customers, line of business units are looking for you to be agile and responsive to all their new requests. You need to be able to deliver new applications quickly, directly link new services to business needs, and rapidly adapt applications as your requirements change. Likewise, the infrastructure you provide must continually adjust to the...
Friday, March 3, 2017 | Server Virtualization | Read More
Now Available - New Oracle VM Server for SPARC Training
With Oracle VM Server for SPARC, you can take advantage of the massive thread scale offered by Oracle's SPARC servers and the Oracle Solaris operating system. The Oracle VM Server for SPARC: Installation and Configuration training course has been updated and extended. So this popular and well received course is now even better. This new course, through lecture material, hands-on activities and demos, will get you started installing Oracle VM Server for SPARC and teach you to: Co...
Monday, February 27, 2017 | Oracle VM | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Webinars about Oracle Open Cloud Infrastructure
Happy Friday! This week we want to highlight a website you can visit to see a collection of our webinars. Watch now.
Friday, February 24, 2017 | Oracle VM | Read More
Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.4.0.3 Released
We are pleased to announce the latest maintenance update 3.4.0.3 of Oracle VM Server for SPARC. For a list of bug fixes, see Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.4.0.3 Supplemental Release Notes. This update has been integrated into Oracle Solaris 11.3.17.5.0. For download instructions, please refer to Oracle Solaris 11.3 Support Repository Updates (SRU) Index [ID 2045311.1]. For information about the supported hardware and minimum and fully qualified firmware, Oracle Solaris OS and...
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 | Oracle VM Server for SPARC | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Multi-tenancy
Oracle Private Cloud Appliance (PCA) is an engineered system for quickly deploying Oracle VM environments. Integrating compute, network and storage components in a converged infrastructure solution, PCA lets customers deploy VMs within hours of initial power-up.Many customers treat the PCA as a pool of compute power shared by all guest VMs. Others need to guarantee isolation for multiple 'tenants' (different customers, clients or departments) and do so by dedicating servers...
Friday, February 17, 2017 | Private Cloud Appliance | Read More
Announcement of Cumulative Patch Set Update (PSU) 8 for SGD 5.2
We are happy to announce the cumulative Patch Set Update (PSU) 8 for SGD 5.2. This is a maintenance roll-up which includes important security and stability fixes for SGD. Details can be found in the My Oracle Support Document Doc ID 1597467.1.
Saturday, February 11, 2017 | Oracle Secure Global Desktop | Read More
Friday Spotlight: DevOps and the Cloud
One of the biggest and most exciting trends we've been seeing amongst customers, and the industry as a whole, is the parallel rise of DevOps and Microservices for cloud development. Linux, virtualization and of course Docker have become the key foundational elements for these next generation Cloud Native application architectures, whether deployed on-premise or in the public cloud. We've had some exciting announcements here too in the Virtualization and Linux teams with more...
Friday, February 10, 2017 | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Training Events
With the engineered system, Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, you create and maintain a highly configurable pool of memory, CPU, and storage resources for running applications in a virtualization environment. Take the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance: Administration course to learn how to: Create, deploy and manage virtualized servers Configure the Private Cloud Appliance Oracle VM environment in which virtualized servers run Attend a live event from your own desk on 2 March, 30 Marc...
Friday, February 3, 2017 | Private Cloud Appliance | Read More
Oracle Secure Global Desktop 5.3 Available
Available Now, Oracle Secure Global Desktop Release 5.3 Oracle Secure Global Desktop (SGD) is a secure remote access solution for cloud-hosted enterprise applications and hosted desktops running on Oracle Linux and other Linux distributions, Oracle Solaris, Microsoft Windows, and mainframe servers. Why is this release important? This release features many improvements over the previous release. New features include: Support for Oracle Linux 7 as a client, application server...
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 | Oracle Secure Global Desktop | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Oracle RAC on Oracle VM environments
Oracle products are engineered and tested to work together, providing distinct advantages when running Oracle Database and Oracle Application workloads on Oracle VM guests. That’s why Oracle deploys Oracle VM to support and certify virtualized implementations of Oracle Applications and Oracle Database, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) included. Oracle RAC is a cluster database with a shared cache architecture that provides highly scalable and available database solutions...
Friday, January 27, 2017 | Oracle VM | Read More
Friday Spotlight: The Promise of Simplified Cloud Management
Oracle Private Cloud Appliance delivers on the promise of simplified cloud management. This converged infrastructure solution consists of preconfigured Oracle servers, network, and storage hardware and software. You can learn more about this product by taking the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance: Administration training as a: Live-Virtual Event: Attend a live event from your own desk, no travel required. Events are added to the schedule to suit different time-zones. In-Class...
Friday, January 20, 2017 | Private Cloud Appliance | Read More
Partner Spotlight: Solution-Soft
Content contributed by Margaret Errington Testing software systems for correct behavior requires precision and proper setting. As an example, when it comes to enterprise software systems, timing can be everything. Is the item of interest month-end, quarter-end, or year-end? Has the system correctly aged uncollected receivables? Have the systems amortized the debt correctly, over the correct period? These are examples of what could become date and time sensitive test cases....
Tuesday, January 17, 2017 | Desktop Virtualization | Read More
Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.14 now available for download!
Oracle has released VirtualBox 5.1 Maintenance Release 14. This release includes improvements and regression fixes for Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1. Between them we can mention: GUI: fixed a crash with multimonitor setups under certain conditions GUI: allow cloning of snapshots when the VM is running VBoxSVC: fixed a crash under rare circumstances Windows hosts: another fix for recent Windows 10 hosts Linux hosts: Kernel 4.10 fixes Linux Additions: fixed protocol error during certain...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017 | Oracle VM VirtualBox | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Cloud Events featuring Oracle Linux and Virtualization
This week we want to highlight our Path to Open Cloud events around the world. Come to hear about Oracle's open cloud offerings: NORTH AMERICA REGION: Jan 17: Oracle CloudWorld – New York Tuesday, January 17, 2017 | 8-5:30pm EST Hilton Midtown 1335 Avenue of the Americas, NY REGISTRATION Jan 19: Oracle Linux Open Source Tech Event – Reston, VA Thursday, January 19, 2017 | 10:30-1f2:30 EST REGISTRATION Jan 24 – Feb 9: Oracle Cloud Days Jan 24 - Minneapolis Jan 26 - Denver Feb 1 ...
Saturday, January 14, 2017 | Oracle VM | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Learn about Oracle VM, More than a Hypervisor
Happy New Year and best wishes for 2017. With more than 100 pre-configured, pretested templates for Oracle applications, Oracle has done the heavy lifting for you enabling the virtualization of complex applications with near-zero application knowledge. Oracle VM is the first step to delivery of applications and cloud services. Oracle VM is more than a hypervisor. Key components: Xen hypervisor Management/Monitoring Configuration tools Storage You can learn more about Oracle VM by...
Friday, January 6, 2017 | Oracle Virtualization | Read More
Happy Holidays to all Oracle Virtualization Fans!
Happy Holidays to everyone, we wish you all the best for 2017. Here are the top 5 blogs for the 2016: Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.12 is now available! Top 5 Reasons to Upgrade to Oracle VM 3.4.2 Learn to Speed Up Deployments with Oracle VM Templates OpenStack support for Oracle VM Server for SPARC Patch Set Updates (PSUs) for Oracle Secure Global Desktop See you all in 2017!
Friday, December 23, 2016 | Oracle Virtualization | Read More
Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.12 is now available!
Oracle has released VirtualBox 5.1 Maintenance Release 12. This release includes improvements and bug fixes for Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1. Between them we can mention: Storage: fixed a couple of issue while using NVMe devices E1000: fixed "cable disconnected" issue Linux hosts: compile Linux 4.9 compile fix GUI: fixed certain keyboard capture issues See all the details here with a complete list of bug fixes; here you can find all the links to download the software. The Oracle...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016 | Oracle VM VirtualBox | Read More
Great choices for third-party backup and restore on Oracle Linux and Oracle VM
This post is courtesy of Margaret Errington. In an era where storage is very affordable, collecting and storing data is no longer an issue. This explosion in data growth within the enterprise can bring new headaches, that of protecting it. Additionally, if we are to add budget constraints, high service-level agreements, and technologies, such as virtualization to the mix, the capabilities of traditional backup and recovery processes may be a bit strained. Customers are...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016 | Oracle VM | Read More
Friday Spotlight: Top 5 Reasons to Upgrade to Oracle VM 3.4.2
Oracle VM is engineered for open cloud infrastructure. This latest 3.4.2 release is focused on security along with new features and performance enhancements. Below are the Top 5 Reasons why you should consider using this release or upgrading to it: 1. Security As part of Oracle's ongoing commitment to security, various components of Oracle VM Server and Oracle VM Manager have been patched with the recent security fixes. It's the best practice to keep Oracle VM environment...
Friday, December 16, 2016 | Oracle VM | Read More
Xen Project Hypervisor 4.8 Released
We are happy to share that the Xen Project, a project hosted at The Linux Foundation, has released Xen Project Hypervisor 4.8 which improves code quality, security hardening and delivers new features. This release offers benefits to traditional server virtualization, Infrastructure as a Services (IaaS), hyperscale clouds, security applications, embedded systems and hardware appliances. Oracle is a member of the Xen Project Advisory Board andhas been using and supporting the...
Monday, December 12, 2016 | Oracle VM Server for x86 | Read More
Friday Spotlight: New to OpenStack, Here is the Perfect Training for You
Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux maintains the flexibility of OpenStack, while allowing you to deploy different configurations and integrate with a range of software and hardware vendors. If you are new to OpenStack, the Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux: Getting Started seminar is perfect for you. You can take this one-day seminar as a: Live-Virtual Event: Attend a live event from your own desk, notravel required. Events are added to the schedule to suit...