Hello everyone, A few years back we had the boom of the “Private Cloud” rush, where everyone started to implement virtualization technologies to make a better use of it Infrastructure resources and improve high availability, scalability and innovation! Now to simplify any migration to the Cloud (VM2Cloud) initiatives we can make use of this fantastic…
Category: Virtualization
Join me at the next OTN Virtual Developer Day
Hi All, On February 4, 2014 at 9:30 am PT I will be talking on the next OTN Virtual Developer Day about Oracle VM and Oracle Database. Come and discover the answers for the following questions: Does an Oracle Database perform well on a virtualized environment? What virtualization technology is more stable and…
Problems when doing a V2V or P2V of a windows server to Oracle VM
Some time ago, I received the request to migrate some Windows 2008 Servers to my Oracle VM farm and after complete the P2V migration the newly create VM would not start. It would crash on boot with blue screen and error: STOP: 0x0000007B (0xXXXXXXXX,0xXXXXXXXX,0x00000000,0x00000000) This issue is related to the storage drivers needed for the guest…
Joint Webinar with Oracle – Top 5 Key Reasons Why Oracle VM is Best for Oracle Database
Top 5 Key Reasons Why Oracle VM is Best for Oracle Database When: Tuesday December 17th , 10am PST Register Here: http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=725350&s=1&k=1512E332202610FE9518AB8B01354C6A&partnerref=Francisco Oracle VM application-driven architecture is designed for rapid deployment and ease of lifecycle management providing IT a highly scalable and cost effective virtualization solution for Oracle Database and business-critical applications. Join us in this webcast…
Why use OVM for Oracle Databases
Some time ago I made a benchmark exercise to compare the performance of an Oracle Database running in a bare metal environment versus a virtualized environment to clear some of the main questions our team and clients in Revera have, such as: Does an Oracle Database performs well on a virtualized environment? What virtualization technology…
Playing with VirtualBox, Oracle 12c (12.1.0.1) and OEL 6.4 – Part 2
We will complete our lab by installing the Oracle Database software, create a Pluggable database and take a look in the Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Express. The steps to install and create an Oracle Database 12c are: 1 – Go to the database directory created when unzipped the 2 Oracle Database Files and run /runInstaller…
Oracle VM 3.1 Disaster Recovery (HA)
On this scenario we will talk about how to implement HA (High Availability) for OVM 3.1 between a Primary Site (Production) and a Secondary Site (DR) located at 800 km away. On this post we will only talk about the storage replication part and how to make it work when a failover is required (I…
Improving VM Performance, Converting repository disk to LUN
If using OVM virtual disks, you can easily improve your VM performance by replacing the virtual disks for raw LUN’s. It gives an extra boost in the performance specially if using the PVM mode. Note that here we are using OVM 3.1 and the guest VM is using OEL 5.7. On this scenario we will…
OVM V2V – Converting ESX VM to OVM using ISO boot CD
In this blog post we will learn how to convert an ESX VM to OVM 3.1 (V2V) using an ISO boot CD. Basically all you need to do to achieve this objective is to follow the following steps: 1. Uninstall VMtools from VM 2. Attache OVS-3.1.1-524.iso to the VM. 3. Boot VM from CD 4….