Oracle VM supports three type of virtual machines .The first one is hardware Virtualizaton (HVM, Fully virtualized). To create HVM guests, your hardware must support hardware virtualization and should be enabled in BIOS where you have installed the oracle VM server.The second one is Hardware virtualized with para-virtualized drivers (PVHVM). This is all most similar to […]
How to create a new VM network and VNIC on Oracle VM ?
Oracle VM for x86 has many network functions unlike traditional servers. In Oracle VM each physical network link will be called as network port. These network ports will be used for oracle VM server management , live migration, Cluster heartbeat , ISCSI storage and virtual machines network. If you use the same network ports for […]
How to upload the ISO files to OVM repository ?
To install guest operating systems on OVM’s virtual machines , you need to have ISO images on storage repositories.In UnixArena, we have already seen about creating the storage repositories.Once the storage repositories are presented to oracle VM server, you can import the ISO’s to oracle VM server’s repositories. But you can’t simply browse the ISO […]
How to Create a Storage Repositories on Oracle VM ?
In oracle VM, you have to create a storage repositories to store the virtual disks , ISO files ,template files and VM files.Once you have configured the storage array and configured the server pool, you will be able to create the repositories and present to the Oracle VM servers.These repositories can be created over NFS […]
How to Create a server pool on oracle VM?
In oracle VM for x86 series , we have already seen the installation of oracle VM server and Oracle VM manager. Once you have completed the installation of those softwares, you need to add the oracle VM servers in to oracle VM manager to manage those server.You need to discover the oracle VM servers from […]
How to add ISCSI storage array to OVM ?
Oracle VM storage mechanisms uses oracle storage connect plug-ins. Oracle provides two type of generic plugins along with oracle VM software. One is Storage array plugin that used to connect block level storage and the second one is a filesystem plugin that is used to connect network filesystem based storage.These plugins will just help you […]
How to install Oracle VM manager on Oracle Linux ?
Oracle VM manager provides graphical web-based interface to administrate network , storage infrastructure of oracle VM servers.It provides a centralized management environment for oracle VM servers and oracle VM for SPARC environments.Since it provides web interface, you can manage the oracle VM servers from anywhere .To install oracle VM manager , you need oracle enterprise […]
How to install Oracle VM server (x86)? Step By Step Guide
Oracle VM for X86 is a native hypervisor which is directly runs on the host’s hardware.This hypervisor is based on xen technology and it requires very small footprint on the hard drive to install it.Oracle VM server is directly installed on the baremetal computer and it contains the oracle VM agent to manage the communication […]
Oracle VM for x86 vs VMware vSphere
Now a days Linux based hypervisors are ruling the datacenters around the world . VMware vSphere and Oracle VM for x86 are two major players in this hypervisor market today. So i would like to compare these products to make the system architect clear about how each prodcut can compete each other. This article is based […]
Veeam – How to backup and restore Solaris/Linux guests using veeamzip ?
Veeam Backup & Replication is one of the leading backup software for VMware vSphere/Hyper-v environments.Compare to other traditional backup softwares, Veeam is very fast to recover the guest OS irrespective of guest filesystem type on VMware vSphere environment. In last weekend ,one the Guest OS was removed accidentally but we had good veeamZip backup file […]