Oracle VM: Julian Dyke Independent Consultant

Oracle VM
Julian Dyke
Independent Consultant
Web Version - October 2008
1 © 2008 Julian Dyke juliandyke.com

Agenda
 Virtualization
 Oracle VM
 Oracle VM Server
 Oracle VM Agent
 Oracle VM Manager

Virtualization

Virtualization
Overview
 Virtualization is the process of abstracting computing resources
 Multiple operating systems and application images share same physical

server
 Benefits include:
 Cost of ownership
 Hardware
 Licensing
 Power
 Cooling
 Space
 Functionality
 High Availability
 Resource Management
 Cloning
 Migration

Virtualization
Types of Virtualization
Hardware Operating System Virtual
Partitions Partitions Machines
Physical Partitions Partitions Binary Translation
- Physically isolated - Must run same OS - Run time translation
- Native hardware speed - May support different - Any hardware / OS
- Dedicated resources levels of same OS - Slower
- Limited fault isolation
- De-privileged kernel
Virtual Partitions Para-Virtualization
- Near native speed
- Online Add / Remove - Some code changes - Special O/S Build
- Near native hardware speed required - Any hardware/ Linux
- Shared I/O - Faster
Shared Partitions Hardware Virtualization

- Shared CPU - Early support (Intel / AMD)
- Dynamic CPU cycle allocation - Any O/S
- Will be fastest
AIX and HP/UX Solaris X86 / X86-64

Virtualization
Supported Platforms
VENDO Product Virtualization Processor Operating Hard Basic Live
R Type Platform System(s) Partition Support Migration
Licensing
DB RAC DB RAC
Linux,
Oracle Oracle Virtual Machine Virtual Machine (PV, HVM) X86
Windows
Pinned only Yes Yes³ Yes¹ Test
nPar Physical Partition IA, PA HP-UX Yes Yes² Yes³ N/A N/A
HP vPar Virtual Partition IA, PA HP-UX Yes Yes Yes N/A N/A
Integrity Virtual Machines Virtual Machine IA HP-UX Capped only Yes No N/A N/A
LPAR¹ Virtual Partition Power AIX Yes Yes³ Yes³ N/A N/A
dLPAR Virtual Partition Power AIX Yes Yes Yes Test Test
Micro-partitions Shared Partition Power AIX Capped only Yes Yes Test Test
IBM
VIO4 Shared storage Power N/A N/A Yes Yes N/A N/A
WPAR OS Partition Power AIX No Test No Test No
zVM Shared Partition zSeries Linux No Yes No N/A N/A
Dynamic System Domains Physical Partition Sparc Solaris Yes Yes Yes³ N/A N/A
SUN Logical Domains Virtual Partition Sparc Solaris No Test Test N/A N/A
Solaris Containers OS Partition Sparc Solaris Capped only Yes No N/A N/A
1 Supported with Oracle Database 11.0.7
2 Need to disable Numa for dynamic support.
3 Static support only.
4 VIO is an option for dLPAR and micro-partitions.
 Information supplied by Oracle Corporation
Virtualization
Certified Application Server Platforms
 The following virtualized platforms are certified for Oracle Application Server
Operating System Virtualization / Partitioning Technology

Linux x86, x86-64 Oracle VM
Windows x86, x86-64 Oracle VM
IBM AIX POWER IBM LPAR

IBM Linux POWER IBM LPAR
Sun Solaris SPARC Sun Containers (Solaris 10)
Sun Solaris x86, x86- Sun Containers (Solaris 10)
64
HP HP/UX PA RISC nPar, vPar
HP HP/UX Itanium nPar, vPar
HP Linux Itanium nPar
HP Windows Itanium nPar
 On Solaris both global and local zones/containers are supported, but LDOMs are not supported
 See http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/hi_av/oracleas_supported_virtualization.html

VMware
Oracle Support Status
 Limited support for Oracle products on VMware
 Oracle has not certified any of its products on VMware
 Oracle will support customers running Oracle products running on VMware

 for issues known to occur on the native OS
 for issues that can be demonstrated not to be a result of using VMware
 See Metalink Note 249212.1 - Support Position for Oracle Products running on
VMware virtualized environments for more details

Virtualization
Hypervisor-Based Virtualization
Applications Applications
Guest OS Guest OS
Guest VM Guest VM
Hypervisor
X86 or X86/64 Bare-Metal Server
CPU Memory I/O Network

Xen Hypervisor
Overview
 Xen hypervisor
 Small, lightweight, software virtual machine monitor
 Supports x86 and x86-64 only
 Executes multiple virtual machines on one physical system
 Each virtual machine has its own guest operating system
 Originally developed at Cambridge University
 Now open source
 Included in
 Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.0 and above
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 and above
 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
 Enhanced version included in Oracle VM Server
Beware - Oracle VM Manager overrides

some Xen default properties
Oracle VM

Oracle VM
Overview
 Server virtualization software
 Supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications
 Claimed to be three times more efficient than other server virtualization

products
 Backed by Oracle support
 Available for free download

 edelivery.oracle.com/oracle/vm
 Guests supported include:

 Linux
 Windows
 Runs on x86 and x86-64 based systems

Oracle VM
Overview
 Oracle products certified with Oracle VM include:
 Oracle Database
 Oracle Fusion Middleware
 Oracle Applications
 Consists of
 Open Source server software
 integrated Web browser-based management console

Oracle VM
Virtual Machines
 Oracle VM allows users to create and manage Virtual Machines (VMs)
 VMs
 exist on same physical server
 behave like independent physical servers
 Each VM has its own

 virtual CPUs
 network interfaces
 storage
 operating system

Oracle VM
Components
 Oracle VM Server
 Self-contained virtualization environment
 Provides lightweight, secure, server-based platform forrunning VMs
 Based on updated version of Xen hypervisor technology
 Includes Oracle VM Agent
 Oracle VM Agent
 Installed with Oracle VM Server
 Communicates with Oracle VM Manager for management of virtual
machines
 Provides user interface to manage Oracle VM servers and resources
 Standard Application Development Framework (ADF) web applications

Oracle VM
Architecture
Oracle VM Manager
Web Browser-based User Interface Oracle VM

Manager
Java-based Management Server Repository
Oracle VM Server
OracleVM
Agent
dom0 domU domU domU
Hypervisor
Host Hardware CPU, Network, Memory, Disk

Oracle VM
Supported Hardware
 Oracle VM requirements
 32 bit or 64 bit host
 i686-class processor
 all Intel Pentium Pro or newer models
 Intel Pentium 4 recommended as a minimum
 all AMD Athlon/Duron processors or newer models
 AMD Athlon recommended as a minimum
 For unmodified guest operating systems CPU must provide hardware

virtualization support
 Hardware virtualization optionally provided by the following processors:

 Intel Pentium D, Core, Core2, Xeon
 AMD Athlon, Opteron

Oracle VM
Supported Guest Operating Systems
 Oracle VM supports the following guest operating systems:
 Oracle Enterprise Linux 4
 Oracle Enterprise Linux 5
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
 Microsoft Windows 2003
 Microsoft Windows Server 2003
 Microsoft Windows HP
 Note that Microsoft Windows is only supported on hardware virtualization

(HV) capable hardware
 Currently Windows runs significantly slower on Oracle VM than on native
hardware
 Oracle is developing paravirtualized Windows drivers to improve
performance of Windows on Oracle VM

Oracle VM
Product Certification
 Oracle VM is the only x86 based server virtualization environment on which
Oracle products are supported
 Oracle products currently certified with Oracle VM (September 2008) include:

 Oracle Database 10gR2 and11gR1
 Oracle RAC 10gR2 (10.2.0.4)
 Oracle Application Server 10gR2 and 10gR3
 Oracle Enterprise Manager 10.2.0.4
 Oracle Berkeley DB4.6
 Oracle TimesTen 7.0.3.1
 Oracle E-Business Suite11.5.10 and12
 Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise 8.4.x and 9.0
 PeopleTools 8.49.07and above
 Oracle Siebel CRM 8.0
 Oracle Hyperion 9.3.1
 See Metalink Note 464754.1 - Certified Software on Oracle VM

Oracle VM
Product Certification
 Only the following Application Server components are currently certified:
 SOA 10.1.3.1.0 with 10.1.3.3.0 patchset

 WebCenter 10.1.3.2.0 with 10.1.3.3.0 patchset
 Oralce Communication and Mobility Server 10.1.3.3.0 (Linux x86 only)
 Oracle Data Integrator 10.1.3.3.0
 Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 10.1.3.3.0
 Identity Management 10.1.4.0.1 and 10.1.4.2.0
 Oracle Identify Federation 10.1.4.0.1 and 10.1.4.2.0
 Oracle Virtual Directory 10.1.4.2.0
 Oracle Access Manager 10.1.4.2.0
 Oracle Identity Manager 9.1.0.0
 Oracle Universal Content Management 10.1.3.3.1 (Linux x86 only)
 Oracle Universal Records Management 10.1.3.3.1 (Linux x86 only)
 See Metalink Note 464754.1 - Certified Software on Oracle VM

Oracle VM
Oracle Single Instance Database Support
 As of September 2008 Oracle single instance databases are certified with
Oracle VM with the following restrictions
 x86 and x86-64 platforms

 Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.x, 5.x, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x, 5.x
 Oracle 10.2.0.3 or above
 Oracle VM 2.1 or above
 Para-virtualized and hardware virtualized modes
 Use para-virtualized drivers in both modes
 Windows supported in Oracle 11.1.0.7 and above
 Live migration supported in Oracle 11.1.0.7 and above

Oracle VM
Oracle RAC Database Support
 As of September 2008 RAC is certified with Oracle VM with the following
restrictions
 X86 32-bit platform only

 Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.1 or above
 Oracle 10.2.0.4 only
 Oracle VM 2.1.2 only
 Para-virtualized mode only
 Static mode support only
 No dynamic resource changes
 No live migration
 Oracle Recommendations
 Each RAC node should be deployed on a different physical server
 Use physical block devices for database files
 Do not over-commit CPUs

Oracle VM
Oracle RAC Database Support
 Why would you want to run RAC on Oracle VM?
 Resource Management
 Control amount of CPU and memory used by each instance
 Cloning
 For development, test and pre-production
 Migration
 Move instance from one node to another
 Hardware must currently be identical
 Live Migration
 Not supported with RAC

Oracle VM
Oracle Support Costs
 Support costs (August 2008):
Price per system Price per system

Up to 2 physical Unlimited physical
CPUs (sockets) CPUs (sockets)
Installable binaries Free Free
(both server and manager)
Oracle VM Premier Support (1 year) $599 $1,199
Oracle VM Premier Support (3 year) $1,797 $3,597
 Oracle VM Premier Support includes

 Access to software and updates through the Unbreakable Linux Network
 24x7 global support
 Pricing / licensing for Oracle products used with Oracle VM is unaffected
 CPU licensing is still based on physical processors

Oracle VM
Server

Oracle VM Server
Installation
 Oracle VM Server installation is similar to current Enterprise Linux installation

Oracle VM Server
Installation
 Default partitioning layout for an 80GB disk:
Device Start End Size Type Mount

Point
/dev/hdb
hdb1 1 13 101M ext3 /boot
hbb2 14 485 3074M ext3 /
hdb3 486 9598 72112M ocfs2 /OVS
hdb4 9599 9729 1027M Extended
hdb5 9599 9729 1027M swap
 Defaults can be overwritten during installation
 Note that all unallocated storage is assigned to /OVS
 Component list cannot be updated

 Package installation takes around 6 minutes

Oracle VM Server
Virtualization Types
 Oracle VM servers can be
 Para virtualized
 Hardware virtualized
 Para virtualization
 Requires virtualization aware kernel
 Available in Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 (Oracle and Red Hat)
 Currently best performance
 Hardware virtualization
 Can run unmodified kernels e.g Enterprise Linux 3, Windows etc
 Requires virtualization aware CPUs
 Virtualization must be enabled in BIOS

Oracle VM Server
Hardware Virtualization
 Why is para-virtualization currently faster?
 Intel currently supports hardware virtualization of CPU

 VT-x on x86 / x86-64
 VT-i on Itanium
 In future processors Intel will support hardware virtualization for:

 Directed I/O
 VT-d
 Memory / Page Tables
 Extended Page Tables (EPT)
 Networking Devices
 VT-c
 When these are available hardware virtualization will be faster then para-
virtualization
 Note: AMD also provides hardware virtualization

Oracle VM Server
Hardware Virtualization

Oracle VM Server
Paravirtualization
 Para-virtualization requires a xen-aware kernel
 Available in Enterprise Linux 4 Update 5 and above
 For example for paravirtualized kernel /etc/grub.conf contains:
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Enterprise Linux (2.6.18-8.el5xen)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
console=xvc0 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-8.el5xen.img
 Default kernel is:

[root@server11 ~]# uname -r
2.6.18-8.1.15.1.16.el5xen

Oracle VM Server
Installation
 Example of /etc/issue for para-virtualized guest
Oracle VM server release 2.1.2

Hypervisor running in 64 bit mode with NO Hardware Virtualization support.
Network :
Management Interface :
If : eth0(Up) Mac : 00:17:3F:99:F3:7C IP address : 192.168.2.111
Configured Networks and Bridges :
If : eth0 Mac : 00:17:3F:99:F3:7C
If : eth1 Mac : 00:17:3F:9A:03:B9
If : xenbr0 Mac : FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
If : xenbr1 Mac : FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
CPU :
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2160 @ 1.80GHz
[root@server11 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release


Oracle VM Server
Installation
 Example of /etc/issue for hardware virtualized guest

Hypervisor running in 64 bit mode with Hardware Virtualization support.
Network :
Management Interface :
If : eth0(Up) Mac : 00:04:23:DC:1E:78 IP address :
Configured Networks and Bridges :
If : eth0 Mac : 00:04:23:DC:1E:78
If : eth1 Mac : 00:04:23:DC:1E:79
If : xenbr0 Mac : 00:04:23:DC:1E:78
If : xenbr1 Mac : 00:04:23:DC:1E:79
CPU :
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) Dual CPU X5355 @ 2.66GHz
[root@server11 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release


Oracle VM Server
Xen Configuration
 Xen is configured in /etc/sysconfig/xendomains
 It should not be necessary to modify this file
 Services installed for xen include:

 xend
 xendomains

Oracle VM Server
OCFS2 Configuration
 OCFS2 is configured in /etc/ocfs2/cluster.conf
 Initially configured as single node. For example:
node:
ip_port = 7777
ip_address = 192.168.2.111
number = 0
name = server11.juliandyke.com
cluster = ocfs2
cluster:
node_count = 1
name = ocfs2
 Should be extended to contain all servers in pool
 Services installed for OCFS2 include:

 o2cb
 ocfs2

Oracle VM Server
OVS Configuration
 OVS release is reported in /etc/ovs-release
[root@server11 ~]# cat /etc/ovs-release

 Services installed for Oracle VM include:

 ovs-agent
 ovsrepositories
 Oracle VM agent is configured in /etc/ovs-agent/agent.ini

Oracle VM Server
Shared Storage
 Multiple Oracle VM Servers must share storage
 Oracle VM uses OCFS2 by default
 Shared directory is created by Oracle VM Server installation

 Called /OVS
 Created as ocfs2
 Must be manually extended to other VM servers in pool
 Contains various pools including:
 iso_pool - contains ISO images
 running_pool - contains run-time images for guests
 seed_pool
 publish_pool

Oracle VM Server
Guest Installation
 Linux guest installation uses Anaconda
 Guest operating system MUST be installed from ISO images

 Cannot directly mount CD/ROM
 Installation can use

 NFS - from local or remote server
 HTTP - from remote web server
 FTP - from remove FTP server
 See Metalink Note 466005.1 - Mounting an ISO for Paravirtualized Guest

Operating System Installation

Oracle VM Server
Guest Installation
 Guest can be installed using
 virt-install
 operating system utility
 VM Manager
 GUI-based installation
 Install utilities are not entirely compatible e.g.

 virt-install creates configuration file in /etc/xen
 e.g. /etc/xen/guest11
 VM Manager creates additional configuration file called vm.cfg
 e.g. /OVS/running_pool/guest1/vm.cfg
 Prior to first installation create Oracle VM standard pools in /OVS:

[root@server11]# mkdir /OVS/running_pool
[root@server11]# mkdir /OVS/iso_pool

Oracle VM Server
Guest Installation using NFS
 NFS can be mounted on the local host
 NFS services must be started:
[root@server11]# service portmap start

Starting portmap: [ OK ]
[root@server11]# service nfs start

Starting NFS services: [ OK ]
Starting NFS quotes: [ OK ]
Starting NFS daemon: [ OK ]
Starting NFS mountd: [ OK ]
 Firewall must be disabled:
[root@server11]# service iptables stop

Flushing firewall rules: [ OK ]
Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: filter [ OK ]
Unloading iptables modules: [ OK ]

Oracle VM Server
 If the installation software is delivered in a single (DVD-ROM) image
 Create a mount point
[root@server11]# mkdir /el
 If the installation is on a DVD then mount the device
[root@server11]# mount /dev/cdrom /el
 If the installation software is in an ISO file mount as a loopback device
[root@server11]# mount -o ro,loop /dev/cdrom /el
 Export the file system
[root@server11]# exportfs *:/el
 Verify the file has been exported
[root@server11]# exportfs
/el <world>

Oracle VM Server
 If the installation software is delivered in multiple (CD-ROM) images
 Create a directory
[root@server11]# mkdir /el
 If the installation is on a CD-ROM then mount the device
[root@server11]# mount /dev/cdrom /media/iso

 If the installation software is in an ISO file mount as a loopback device
[root@server11]# mount -o ro,loop <filename> /media/iso
 Copy the contents to the /el directory
[root@server11]# cd /media/iso
[root@server11]# cp -var * /media/iso
 Unmount the directory

[root@server11]# cd
[root@server11]# umount /media/iso
 Repeat for remaining disks or ISO images

 Export the file system as shown on previous slide
Oracle VM Server
virt-install
 The virt-install can be executed by the root user either interactively or using
arguments
 For example interactively (as root)
[root@server11]# virt-install
What is the name of your virtual machine? guest1
How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes?) 512
What would you like to use as the disk (path)? /OVS/running_pool/guest1
How large would you like the disk (/OVS/running_pool/guest1) to be
(in gigabytes)? 5
Would you like to enable graphics support? (yes or no) yes
What is the install location? nfs:server11:/el
 Using arguments:
[root@server11]# virt-install \
--name guest1 \
--ram=512 \
--file=/OVS/running_pool/guest1 \
--file-size=5 \
--location=nfs:192.168.2.111:/el \
--nographics

Oracle VM Server
virt-install
 During installation of Enterprise Linux guest you will be prompted for a TCP/IP
configuration
 Ensure that a Gateway IP address is specified otherwise installation will fail

with the following error:
That directory could not be mounted from the server
 By default guest O/S will be installed in /dev/xvda

Oracle VM Server
virt-install
 During initialization virt-install always reports the following error
libvir: Xen Daemon error: GET operation failed:
 This error can be ignored

 Folllowing restart of new operating system virt-install using text graphics reports the following error
libvir: Xen Daemon error: internal error domain information incomplete,

missing kernel
Entity: line 25: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: os line 5
and domain
</domain>
Entity: line 26: parser error : Premature end of data in tag domain line 1
 This error can also be ignored
 See Metalink Note 466563.1 - Oracle VM: First Boot after Installation of Guest OS Fails with Text Console

Oracle VM Server
Xen Configuration
 Default virt-install of a guest O/S creates configuration /etc/xen
 e.g. /etc/xen/guest1
# Automatically generated xen config file

name = "guest1"
memory = "512"
disk = [ 'file:/OVS/running_pool/guest1,xvda,w', ]
vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:6d:c2:92, bridge=xenbr0', ]
uuid = "286c380b-4cd6-9308-5987-4ff05d4d2278"
bootloader="/usr/bin/pygrub"
vcpus=1
on_reboot = 'restart'
on_crash = 'restart'

Oracle VM Server
xm utility
 xm is the Xen management user interface
 To list valid options
[root@server11]# xm help
 To print the message buffer
[root@server11]# xm dmesg
 To start a VM
[root@server11]# xm create -c /etc/xen/guest1
 To shutdown a VM
[root@server11]# xm shutdown guest1

Oracle VM Server
xm utility
 To list running VMs
[root@server11]# xm list
Name ID Mem VCPUs State Time(s)
Domain-0 0 468 2 r----- 254.1
guest1 9 256 1 -b---- 19.7
guest2 10 256 1 -b---- 16.0
 To start a console session
[root@server11]# xm console 9
 where 9 is the ID in xm list

 To end the console session press CTRL-]

Oracle VM Server
xentop utility
 Similar to top
 Same as xm top
 Executed from dom0
 Shows current state of all domains including dom0 and guests
[root@server11 ~]# xentop
 For example
xentop - 10:23:58 Xen 3.1.4

3 domains: 1 running, 2 blocked, 0 paused, 0 crashed, 0 dying, 0 shutdown
Mem: 1037820k total, 1034928k used, 2892k free CPUs: 2 @ 1800MHz
NAME STATE CPU(sec) CPU(%) MEM(k) MEM(%) MAXMEM(k) MAXMEM(%) VCPUS
NETS NETTX(k) NETRX(k) VBDS VBD_OO VBD_RD VBD_WR SSID
Domain-0 -----r 256 0.3 479232 46.2 no limit n/a 2
8 1358489 9219 0 0 0 0 0
guest1 --b--- 20 0.1 262144 25.3 262144 25.3 1
1 6 9 1 0 3295 1834 0
guest2 --b--- 21 0.1 262144 25.3 262144 25.3 1
1 7 0 1 0 3240 1727 0

Oracle VM
Agent

Oracle VM Agent
Management
 By default Oracle VM Agent is configured with username admin and the
password specified during installation
 To check current status of Oracle VM Agent
[root@server11 ~]# service ovs-agent status

ok! process OVSPolicyServer exists
ok! process OVSMonitorServer exists
ok! process OVSLogServer exists
ok! process OVSAgentServer exists
ok! OVSAgentServer is alive
 To start Oracle VM Agent

[root@server11] service ovs-agent start
OVSAgentServer is now starting...
OVSAgentServer started.
 To stop Oracle VM Agent

[root@server11] service ovs-agent stop
OVSAgentServer shutdown...
OVSAgentServer stopped.

Oracle VM
Manager

Oracle VM Manager
Overview
 Provides user interface to manage Oracle VM servers
 Standard Application Development Framework (ADF) web applications
 Manages VM lifecycle
 Creates VMs
 from installation media
 from VM templates
 Deletes VMs
 Power On / Off VMs
 Uploads VMs
 High Availability Deployment
 Live migration
 Dynamic Resource Management
 CPU, memory etc
 Static Resource Management
 ISO files, VM templates etc

Oracle VM Manager
Installation
 Insert CD-ROM or mount ISO image as loopback device
[root@server12]# mount -o ro,loop /dev/cdrom /mnt
 Run installer
[root@server12 ~]# /mnt/runInstaller.sh

Welcome to Oracle VM Manager 2.1.2
Please enter the choice: [1|2|3]
1. Install Oracle VM Manager
2. Uninstall Oracle VM Manager
3. Upgrade Oracle VM Manager
Starting Oracle VM Manager 2.1.2 installation ...
Do you want to install a new database or use an
existing one? [1|2]
1. Install a new Oracle XE database on localhost
2. Use an existing Oracle database in my network
 Installer prompts for port numbers and passwords

Oracle VM Manager
Starting and Stopping VM Manager
 The Oracle VM Manager application runs within an OC4J container
 To check the status of Oracle Containers for J2EE:
[root@server12]# service oc4j status
 To start the Oracle VM Manager:
[root@server12]# service oc4j start
 To stop the Oracle VM Manager:
[root@server12]# service oc4j stop
 To access Oracle VM Manager home page from a browser use:
http://<server_name>:8888/OVS

Oracle VM Manager
Accessing VM Manager
 To access Oracle VM Manager home page from a browser use:
http://<server_name>:8888/OVS

Oracle VM
Server Pools
 Multiple Oracle VM servers can be grouped into Server Pools
 Each server in a server pool has access to shared storage

 Can be NFS, SAN or iSCSI
 VMs can be started on any server in the pool that is available and has
resources free
 VMs can be live Migrated between any servers in the pool

 Except for RAC instances
 VMs can be auto-restarted across any servers in the pool
 For each VM a Preferred Server List can optionally be specified

Oracle VM
Server Pools
Oracle VM Manager
VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
Server Pool 1 Server Pool 2
Oracle Oracle Oracle Oracle Oracle
VM VM VM VM VM
Server Server Server Server Server
Shared Shared
Storage Storage

Oracle VM Manager
Server Pool Roles
 Each Oracle VM Server can have up to three roles:
 Server Pool Master Agent
 Utility Server
 Virtual Machine Server
 Each Server Pool must contain

 One Server Pool Master Agent
 One or more Utility Servers
 One or more Virtual Machine Servers
 One Oracle VM Server can perform all three roles
 Alternatively each role can be performed by different servers

Oracle VM
Server Pool Master Agent
 Each Server Pool has one (and only one) Server Pool Master Agent
 Master agents manage:

 Load balancing
 Live migration
 HA restarts
 All Management Agents in pool communicate with Master Agent

 Master Agent communicates with Management Server
 Server Pool Master Agent can:

 be dedicated server (recommended for availability)
 host guest VMs
 If Management Server fails, Server Pool Master Agents continue to operate
 If Server Pool Master Agent fails

 Virtual machines within Server Pool continue to operate
 Live migration or High Availability functionality is not available

Oracle VM Manager
Utility Server
 Responsible for I/O intensive operations such as copying or moving files
 Used when creating or removing

 virtual machines
 servers
 server pools
 There can be one or more utility servers in a Server Pool

 If there is more than one, Server Pool Master chooses Utility Server with
maximum CPU resources to complete task

Oracle VM Manager
Server Pool Configuration
 After installation Oracle VM Manager will automatically run the Server Pool
Wizard

Oracle VM Manager

Oracle VM Manager

Oracle VM Manager

Oracle VM Manager
Templates
 Oracle supplies some templates which can be used to rapidly create VMs
 Operating system templates available in September 2008 included:
Template Kernel VCPU RAM(GB) Storage(GB)

s
OVM_EL4U5_X86-HVM-10GB 2.6.9- 2 2 10
55.0.1.2.100.1.ELsmp
OVM_EL4U5_X86_64-HVM-10GB 2.6.9- 2 2 10
55.0.1.2.100.1.ELsmp
OVM_EL4U5_X86-HVM-4GB 2.6.9- 1 1 4
55.0.1.2.100.1.ELsmp
OVM_EL4U5_X86_64-HVM-4GB 2.6.9- 1 1 4
55.0.1.2.100.1.ELsmp
OVM_EL4U5_X86-PVM-10GB 2.6.9-55.0.1.2.9.1.ELxenU 2 2 10
OVM_EL4U5_X86-PVM-4GB 2.6.9-55.0.1.2.9.1.ELxenU 1 1 4
OVM_EL5_X86_64_HVM_10GB 2.6.18-8.1.15.100.1.el5 2 2 10
OVM_EL5_X86_64_HVM_4GB 2.6.18-8.1.15.100.1.el5 1 1 4
OVM_EL5U1_X86_64_HVM_10GB 2.6.18-53.0.0.100.1.el5 2 2 10
OVM_EL5U1_X86_64_HVM_4GB 2.6.18-53.0.0.100.1.el5 1 1 4
OVM_EL5U1_X86_64_PVM_10GB 2.6.18-53.1.4.9.1.el5xen 2 2 10
OVM_EL5U1_X86_64_HVM_4GB 2.6.18-53.1.4.9.1.el5xen 1 1 4
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Oracle VM Manager
Guest VM Creation

Oracle VM Manager
Guest VM Creation

Oracle VM Manager
Guest VM Creation

Oracle VM Manager
Guest VM Creation

Oracle VM Manager
Guest VM Creation

Oracle VM Manager
Guest VM Creation

Oracle VM Manager
Templates
 Oracle Database 11g disk images available in September 2008 included:
 Oracle Database 11g x86

 Oracle Database 11g x86-64
 Disk images are also available for:

 Oracle Enterprise Manager
 Siebel
 See Metalink Note 551261.1 - Oracle VM Guest Templates for Oracle Enterprise
Linux

Oracle VM
Conclusions
 Promising technology
 Full hardware virtualization should be very impressive
 Could be really useful for High Availability
 Still relatively immature technology

 Few customers using Oracle VM in production
 Still numerous installation and operational issues

 Beware of conflicts between Oracle VM Manager and Xen tools
 Use Oracle VM Manager if possible
 Documentation is relatively weak
 Often several ways to achieve same goal
 Not obvious which is best
 Start investigating now

 Worth considering when planning
 Probably not production-ready yet but not far away

References
 http://www.oracle.com/technologies/virtualization/index.html
 http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/vm.html
 http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Oracle+VM

Acknowledgements
 Thanks to the following for their assistance with the development of this
presentation:
 Steve Shaw - Intel Corporation

 Martin Bach - eDBA
 Simon Haslam - Veriton
 Michael Timpanaro-Perrotta - Oracle
 Adam Hawley - Oracle
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 Multiple operating systems and application images share same physical

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Shared Partitions Hardware Virtualization

AIX and HP/UX Solaris X86 / X86-64

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Operating System Virtualization / Partitioning Technology

IBM AIX POWER IBM LPAR

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 Oracle has not certified any of its products on VMware

 Oracle will support customers running Oracle products running on VMware

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X86 or X86/64 Bare-Metal Server

CPU Memory I/O Network

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 Enhanced version included in Oracle VM Server

Beware - Oracle VM Manager overrides

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 Supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications

 Claimed to be three times more efficient than other server virtualization

 Backed by Oracle support

 Available for free download

 Guests supported include:

 Runs on x86 and x86-64 based systems

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 Each VM has its own

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Web Browser-based User Interface Oracle VM

dom0 domU domU domU

Host Hardware CPU, Network, Memory, Disk

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 For unmodified guest operating systems CPU must provide hardware

 Hardware virtualization optionally provided by the following processors:

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 Note that Microsoft Windows is only supported on hardware virtualization

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 Oracle products currently certified with Oracle VM (September 2008) include:

 See Metalink Note 464754.1 - Certified Software on Oracle VM

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 SOA 10.1.3.1.0 with 10.1.3.3.0 patchset

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 x86 and x86-64 platforms

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 X86 32-bit platform only

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Price per system Price per system

Oracle VM Premier Support (3 year) $1,797 $3,597

 Oracle VM Premier Support includes

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Device Start End Size Type Mount

 Note that all unallocated storage is assigned to /OVS

 Component list cannot be updated

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