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Free Download
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The full featured product, is entirely free to download |
| Licenses |
License for Oracle VM Server is GPL, freely re-distributable, free download, free use. License for Oracle VM Manager is private source, free download, freely re-distributable, free use. |
| Cost |
Free software download, backed by enterprise-class, low-cost support |
| Certifications |
Oracle performs real-world testing on its broad portfolio of products with Oracle VM to ensure bulletproof reliability and streamlined support. Oracle VM is the only x86-based server virtualization environment on which Oracle products are supported |
| Patch Management |
Support customers can obtain updates for Oracle VM through the Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN). |
| CONTROL/MANAGEMENT FEATURES |
| Centralized Control of Servers and VMs Pools |
Oracle VM Manager provides a single point of control for the allocation of virtual machines to physical servers. Administrators can perform maintenance and provisioning tasks, set policies, and collect data from a remote or local node via a web interface. An integrated Oracle Database keeps track of all the information about your configuration. |
| HA Clustered Oracle VM Manager |
Using Oracle Clusterware in your setup, if the server running Oracle VM Manager and the underlying database had to fail, they would be automatically restarted on a different server. |
| Oracle VM Management Pack |
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 5 introduces the Oracle VM Management Pack, which provides a comprehensive management solution for managing both the virtual machines and the operating systems and software running inside the virtual machines from a single product. The Oracle VM Management Pack provides integrated in-depth health and performance monitoring, configuration management, and lifecycle automation for both virtual- and physical infrastructure for maximum operational efficiency. |
| GENERAL FEATURES |
| Secure Live Migration |
Dynamically reallocate running virtual machines using SSL encrypted secure live migration. Oracle VM is the first commercially available virtualization product to offer secure migration out of the box. No need to purchase special hardware or deploy special secure networks. |
| High Availability |
Oracle VM uses robust clustering techniques to assure minimal downtime. Oracle VM uses network and storage heartbeats to determine node status and automatically restart or migrate VMs on physical server or network failures. Server pool load balancing algorithms assure the best allocation of resources to each VM. Server pool master auto-failover feature eliminate any single point of failure for virtualization management.
Oracle VM supports High Availability on all supported storage methods, including iSCSI, SAN, NAS, etc. |
| Distributed Lock Management |
An essential part of VMs failures detection and recovery, Distributed Lock Management guarantees that no duplicates VMs are created due to erroneous VM status reporting. |
| Pool Load Balancing |
Optimize allocation for VM to servers based on memory requirements and node availability. Oracle VM performs automated load balancing at each virtual machine power on. |
| Shared Storage |
The server pools can be configured using shared storage on NFS, OCFS2 on SAN, or OCFS2 on iSCSI. |
| Utility Servers |
It is possible to configure the server pool to have a dedicated server for VMs backup and restore. |
| Leading Performance |
Low-overhead architecture with the Xen hypervisor provides scalable performance under increasing workloads to meet the most aggressive performance requirements. |
| Latest Hardware Support |
Leverage the new hardware features from Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors for higher performance and more efficient power management. |
| Rapid VM Provisioning and Cloning |
Sparse file support in OCFS2 enables significantly faster virtual machine provisioning and cloning; allow users more control over data allocation, improving performance and storage efficiency. |
| ADMINISTRATION/DEVELOPMENT |
| Physical-to-Virtual / Virtual-to-Virtual Machine Conversion |
Quickly convert existing Linux or Windows physical servers or VMDK or VHD virtual machines to Oracle VM virtual machines to reduce license expenses. |
| Easy Clones Creation |
Create, duplicate or archive VMs in a simple direct way. |
| Oracle VM Template Creation with Oracle Linux JeOS |
With Oracle Linux JeOS (Just Enough OS)—a secure, minimized OS that is freely re-distributable and backed by enterprise-class support—developers and ISVs can now easily build Oracle VM Templates. JeOS includes a pre-packaged, small-footprint Oracle Linux image for x86 and x86-64, along with a script to customize the image. |
| Oracle VM Templates |
Oracle VM Templates provide an innovative approach to deploying a fully configured software stack by offering pre-installed and pre-configured software images, including Oracle database, middleware, and applications, and more. Use of Oracle VM Templates eliminates the installation and configuration costs, and reduces the ongoing maintenance costs helping organizations achieve faster time to market and lower cost of operations.
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| Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface (CLI) and Web Services API |
Enable integration of third party products with Oracle VM Manager. |
| Oracle VM Template Builder |
An open source, graphical utility that makes it easy to use Oracle Linux "Just enough OS" (JeOS)-based scripts for developing pre-packaged virtual machines for Oracle VM. Now, end-users and ISVs have the option to develop their Oracle VM Templates by using these JeOS-based scripts directly or via the graphical Oracle VM Template Builder. |
