Comments on: Oracle VM… http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2007/11/13/oracle-vm/ Oracle related rants (and lots of off-topic stuff)... Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:56:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Tim... http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2007/11/13/oracle-vm/#comment-53372 Tim... Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:25:53 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2007/11/13/oracle-vm/#comment-53372 Hi. VM is short for Virtual Machine. What this means is you can take a single big server, and partition it up to act like several smaller servers. This can result in substantial cost and power savings compared to running lots of little servers. Cheers Tim... Hi.

VM is short for Virtual Machine. What this means is you can take a single big server, and partition it up to act like several smaller servers. This can result in substantial cost and power savings compared to running lots of little servers.

Cheers

Tim…

]]> By: Imran http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2007/11/13/oracle-vm/#comment-53338 Imran Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:12:59 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2007/11/13/oracle-vm/#comment-53338 Dear Tim, I was wondering for some Oracle stuff. I found ur blog in the run. Well everybody is talking about Oracle VM and I even don't what VM is all about; leave Oracle VM aside. Can you explain it............. Dear Tim,

I was wondering for some Oracle stuff. I found ur blog in the run. Well everybody is talking about Oracle VM and I even don’t what VM is all about; leave Oracle VM aside. Can you explain it………….

]]> By: Tim... http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2007/11/13/oracle-vm/#comment-53281 Tim... Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:50:47 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2007/11/13/oracle-vm/#comment-53281 Hi. Whoops. Sorry, I corrected it. :) At the moment it doesn't run Windows as well as Linux. I does work, but not a fast as Linux. At the start of next year some libraries are being released to sort this, allegedly. VMware ESX images can be converted using qemu-img on the Oracle VM cd. This has bee around for some time to do convert VMware images to Xen. Cheers Tim... Hi.

Whoops. Sorry, I corrected it. :)

At the moment it doesn’t run Windows as well as Linux. I does work, but not a fast as Linux. At the start of next year some libraries are being released to sort this, allegedly.

VMware ESX images can be converted using qemu-img on the Oracle VM cd. This has bee around for some time to do convert VMware images to Xen.

Cheers

Tim…

]]> By: vm enthusiast http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2007/11/13/oracle-vm/#comment-53059 vm enthusiast Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:44:56 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2007/11/13/oracle-vm/#comment-53059 Not Zen, Xen! This will be interesting to watch, certainly... To me the big open questions will be how well it hosts non-Linux OS's (i.e. Windows) and how well they can enable things like migration for VMWare VMs. It's early enough in the day that VMWare doesn't have big vendor lock-in in the datacenter. Customers already using other Oracle technologies are bound to at least give this a look. Not Zen, Xen!

This will be interesting to watch, certainly… To me the big open questions will be how well it hosts non-Linux OS’s (i.e. Windows) and how well they can enable things like migration for VMWare VMs. It’s early enough in the day that VMWare doesn’t have big vendor lock-in in the datacenter. Customers already using other Oracle technologies are bound to at least give this a look.

]]> By: Sanman http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2007/11/13/oracle-vm/#comment-49652 Sanman Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:52:37 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2007/11/13/oracle-vm/#comment-49652 This is a big announcement from Oracle and they will be catching up to VMware. Oracle VM lacks the advanced features of Vmware like DRS, HA etc. Will need to see how this pans out over a period of time. This is a big announcement from Oracle and they will be catching up to VMware. Oracle VM lacks the advanced features of Vmware like DRS, HA etc. Will need to see how this pans out over a period of time.

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