Installing Oracle Vm - Sun Microsystems Fire X2270 M2 Installation Manual

Installing Oracle VM

Oracle VM is a virtualization environment platform that enables users to create and manage
virtual machines (VMs). These VMs exist on the same physical server but behave like
independent physical servers. Each virtual machine created with Oracle VM has its own virtual
CPUs, operating system, network interfaces, and storage.
Oracle VM is comprised of the following components:
Oracle VM Server: A lightweight, secure virtualization environment based on Xen
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hypervisor, and used to run virtual machines and the Oracle VM agent.
Oracle VM Agent: Installed on Oracle VM Server, it communicates with Oracle VM
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Manager and includes a Web Services API for managing the Oracle VM Server, server pools,
and resources. This is included in the Oracle VM Manager installation.
Oracle VM Manager: A web application which acts as the user interface for creating and
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managing your virtual machines. This includes virtual machine creation (including
templates), life cycle management (deploying, migrating and deleting), and resource
management (ISO files, templates and shared storage resources).
The following table provides an outline of the Oracle VM installation:
Step Description
1 Review up-to-date information about the server
hardware and software, including supported
versions of operating systems.
2 Check system requirements.
3 Review installation method options.
4 Obtain the installation images and burn them to
a DVD or copy them onto the corresponding
servers.
5 Install Oracle VM Server and OVM Agent.
6 Install Oracle VM Manager.
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Sun Fire X2270 M2 Server Product Notes
"System Requirements" on page 10
"Installation Options" on page 11
"How to Obtain Oracle VM Software" on page 11
"How to Install Oracle VM Server and Oracle VM
Agent" on page 11
"How to Install Oracle VM Manager" on page 12
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