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Requirements & Supported Guest OS
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| ORACLE VM SERVER REQUIREMENTS |
| Supported Host Platforms |
Systems with x86 or x86_64 processors that support PAE (Physical Address Extension) |
| Minimum Processor Class |
I686 class |
| Minimum Memory |
1GB |
| Recommended Memory |
2GB |
| Number of Supported Guests |
Based on the amount of physical memory in the server and the amount of memory allocated to each guest. |
| CPUs Supporting Paravirtualized Guests |
- Intel Pentium-PRO or newer
- All AMD Athlon/Duron or newer
- At least a Pentium IV or Athlon CPU recommended
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| CPUs Supporting Hardware Virtualized Guests |
- Some Intel Pentium D, Core, Core2 and Xeon models (/proc/cpuinfo should include "vmx" among the flags)
- Some AMD Athlon and Opteron models (/proc/cpuinfo should include "svm" among the flags)
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| Maximum Number of CPUs |
Oracle VM Server: 128 CPUs (threads)
Guests: 32 virtual CPUs |
| Maximum Memory |
Oracle VM Server: 1TB
Guests:
x86 (32-bit): 63GB
x86_64 (64-bit): 500GB |
| Supported Disks for VM files |
SCSI, SAS, IDE/SATA, NAS, iSCSI, FC, FCoE |
| Hypervisor Booting |
From local drives, SAN, iSCSI, NFS, flash |
| Supported Virtual Hardware |
- vDisk: 20 hda, 26 sda, 5 xvd (all tested for a single PV machine instance); maximum of 128 vDisk devices per VM pool
- vNICs: 31 for paravirtualized, 8 for hardware virtualized
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| Oracle VM MANAGER REQUIREMENTS |
| Hardware |
X86 |
| Operating System |
Oracle Linux 4.5 or later
RHEL 4.5 or later |
| Web Browser |
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 or later
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later |
| Minimum Swap Space |
2 GB |
| Minimum Memory |
2 GB |
| Minimum CPU Speed |
1.83 GHz |
| Minimum Disk Space |
4 GB |
| Supported Oracle Databases Editions |
Oracle Database Express Edition, Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) |
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