If you have followed my previous Oracle VM Blog posts you should have by now a working OVM deployment using either Block, NFS or both. I am now going to provide a walkthrough on how to import an Oracle VM Template. First start by visiting Oracle Technology Network and navigating to the Oracle VM Overview... Continue Reading →
Oracle VM 3.4.6 : Part 6 – OVM Block Storage
Oracle VM Block Storage In my last Blog post I presented NFS storage to my Oracle VM Server, in this post I will show how block storage can also be configured for use with OVM. Create Pure FlashArray volume Our first step is to create a volume and connect it to our Oracle VM Server.... Continue Reading →
Oracle VM 3.4.6 : Part 5 – OVM NFS Storage
Oracle VM NFS Storage If you been following my series of Blog Post on OVM you should by now have a working OVM Server and Manager. However, if you a new to this series you can catch-up using the links below: Oracle VM Server installationOracle VM Manager installationOracle VM Network configurationOracle VM Storage configurationOracle VM... Continue Reading →
Oracle VM 3.4.6 : Part 4 – OVM Storage
Configuring OVM Storage If you have followed Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 you should now have a working networked OVM Server and Manager ready to have storage presented to it. Before you start, logon to the OVM Server and add your NFS and / or iSCSI fully qualified domain named servers to the... Continue Reading →
Creating Oracle support diagnostics for OVM 3.4.6
How to create Oracle support diagnostic details for OVM 3.4.6
Oracle VM 3.4.6 : Part 3 – OVM Networks
Configuring OVM Networks Before we can present our iSCSI and NFS storage to our Oracle VM Server we need to configure a network. Oracle VM Manager provides a simple to use interface which can maintain the /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts without the need of manual editing. In my lab I have a number of VLAN's configure on an... Continue Reading →
Oracle VM 3.4.6 : Part 1 – OVM Server
Oracle VM Server Oracle VM is a free to download virtualisation technology and for many deployments could provide a great alternative to VMware. In this series of Blog Posts I am going to give OracleVM a spin, and document my experiences. Oracle VM Server is a Bare-Metal install unlike Oracle VM Manager which is installed... Continue Reading →
Oracle VM 3.4.6 :Part 2 – OVM Manager
Oracle VM Manager Oracle VM is a free to download virtualisation technology and for many deployments could provide a great alternative to VMware. In this series of Blog Posts I am going to give OracleVM a spin, and document my experiences. Oracle VM Manager needs to be installed into an existing OS unlike Oracle VM... Continue Reading →