Archive for the ‘oracle xen vm’ Category

Oracle VM Template for PeopleSoft

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Oracle have recently added a Oracle VM Template for PeopleSoft which delivers a “quick start” of PeopleSoft HCM with Oracle Database on Oracle Enterprise Linux to the Oracle VM Template library.

Oracle acquires Virtual Iron Software, Inc.

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Oracle announced on 13 May 2009 that it has agreed to acquire Virtual Iron Software, Inc. (Virtual Iron), a provider of server virtualization management software.

The combination of Virtual Iron technology and Oracle VM’s scalable, high performance and highly available server virtualization product is expected to provide more comprehensive and dynamic resource management across the full software stack. Customers are expected to benefit from rapid application deployment, streamlined virtualization server configuration and improved visibility and control across Oracle’s enterprise software stack. In addition, we anticipate that the combination of Virtual Iron technology with Oracle Enterprise Manager will enable customers to be more agile in meeting application service levels for virtual environments.

Oracle may not follow Red Hat down the KVM road

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

According to TommyReynolds on the Oracle Forum the Oracle Xen VM (OVM) is a virtualization platform and is a separate product (to OEL & RHEL) with different rules.

Oracle VM Manager Web Services API

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Oracle VM Manager provides a Web services Application Programming Interface (API) to enable integration of third party products with Oracle VM Manager. You can use the API to perform any of the operations in Oracle VM Manager, for example, to create a server pool, add servers, and create virtual machines.

Oracle OEL JeOS AMI VMs for Amazon EC2

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Oracle OEL JeOS AMI VMs for Amazon EC2

Oracle GNU/Linux 5.2 and Oracle Xen VM Server 2.1.2

Friday, November 28th, 2008

Oracle GNU/Linux 5.2 and Oracle Xen VM Server 2.1.2 ISOs are now available for download from:

http://www.oracle.com/virtualization

and you can get some Oracle Xen VM templates from

Oracle Xen VM purchasing & pricing

Friday, March 14th, 2008

You can purchase Oracle VM from the Oracle Shop

Oracle VM Premier Limited (one system max two cpus) @ $499

Oracle VM Premier (one system any num cpus) @ $999

Oracle Xen VM Server pre-built Xen VM guests now available

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Oracle have just released pre-built para-virtualised Xen domu guests of Oracle Unbreakable GNU/Linux and Oracle 11g DB available for download:

Virtualisation.Info virtualisation blog

Monday, November 19th, 2007

http://www.virtualization.info/ continues to be a source of some of the best virtualisation articles available
http://www.virtualization.info/2007/01/hidden-risk-of-virtual-appliances.html

http://www.virtualization.info/2006/12/choosing-between-vmware-server-and-esx.html
http://www.virtualization.info/2007/11/thinsy-announces-7th-xen-based.html

http://www.virtualization.info/2007/11/red-hat-adopts-xen-31-in-its-new.html

http://www.virtualization.info/2007/11/whitepaper-understanding-full.html

( http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware_paravirtualization.pdf )

Oracle XEN VM Server

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Oracle+VM

Oracle VM is free server virtualization software from Oracle that supports Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Oracle VM offers scalable, low-cost server virtualization. Both Linux and Windows guests are supported. (See FAQ.)
Consisting of Xen’s open source server software and an integrated Web browser-based management console, Oracle VM provides an easy-to-use graphical interface for creating and managing virtual server pools, running on x86 and x86-64-based systems, across an enterprise.