Monthly Archives: January 2008

Changing the ownership of an oracle vm virtual machine

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Administrator

Question: Is it possible to change ownership of a virtual machine to another user after it has has been created? Answer: Update the user_id in the ovs.ovs_vm_img table to match the user_id of the virtual machines with the proper owner. … Continue reading →

Posted in Technical | Tagged , | 1 Comment

Oracle VM Server use case: multiple networks, multipathed SAN storage

Posted on January 19, 2008 by Administrator

I would like to thank Henk Bokhoven from http://bok.xs4all.nl/weblog/ who has kindly sent me through a link from the oracke wiki about an enterprise virtualization environment with oracle vm server. I ahve just posted the summary below as it is quite a long article. … Continue reading →

Posted in Oracle VM Server, Technical | Leave a comment

Server Virtualization – Hot technology for 2008

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Administrator

I am digressing here from Oracle VM to discuss the server virtualization market in general. I found this article from Network World interesting in that it clearly positions the virtualization market, analyst thoughts and to me really proves that virtualization … Continue reading →

Posted in Press Releases/Media | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Key oracle products certified for use under oracle vm

Posted on January 15, 2008 by Administrator

Oracle Database 10gR2 (10.2.0.3)   Linux x86 and Linux x86-64 – NOT RAC Oracle Database 11gR1   Linux x86 and Linux x86-64 Application Server 10gR2 (10.1.2.0.2, 10.1.2.2.0 patchset)    Linux x86 and Linux x86-64 Application Server 10gR3    Linux x86 … Continue reading →

Posted in Technical | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Making Virtual Servers a Reality

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Administrator

Here is an interesting sales focused article on server virtualization from Rich Schwerin (rich.schwerin@oracle.com) who is the Linux, virtualization, and open source product marketing manager with Oracle technology marketing. It appeared in Oracle News and by the looks of it … Continue reading →

Posted in News, Press Releases/Media | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Updated oracle vm faq

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Administrator

Oracle have released an updated oracle vm FAQ. I’m not sure what they have updated but here is the new file. Download it now – ovm-faq.pdf

Posted in Oracle VM Documentation | Leave a comment

Wim Coekaerts – Responsible for Oracle VM

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Administrator

I thought you might be interested to know a bit about Wim Coekaerts – Vice President of Linux Engineering who is mentioned a fair bit on the oracle site and through other sites due to Wim being responsible for oracle … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged | Leave a comment

Benefits in using Oracle VM

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Administrator

I thought this was interesting for anyone not sure about why you should use Oracle VM. What are some of the benefits of Oracle VM? Oracle VM offers: Greater efficiencies—Three times more efficient than the other, leading server virtualization product … Continue reading →

Posted in Oracle VM Documentation | Tagged | Leave a comment

Oracle VM and integration with Enterprise Manager

Posted on January 9, 2008 by Administrator

This is an interesting comment I found at http://tardate.blogspot.com/ about the perception of where oracle vm will go. I think it is very true. “Virtualization – The announcement of Oracle VM may prove to be a blockbuster if it is … Continue reading →

Posted in News, Technical | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Oracle VM and bridges

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Administrator

Interesting technical article posted by Wim Coekaerts at http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Bridges describing bridges and how they work with oracle vm manager and oracle vm server “On Oracle VM server, at boot time, we create a bridge for each physical adaptor that is present … Continue reading →

Posted in Oracle VM Manager, Oracle VM Server, Technical | Leave a comment