Oracle VM User Manual

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Oracle VM Server 2-1
2Oracle VM Server
This Chapter contains an overview of Oracle VM Server and the underlying
hypervisor, the components of virtual machines and domains, and gets you started
with the tools to create and manage guests. This Chapter contains:
■ Oracle VM Server
■ Hypervisor
■ Domains, Guests and Virtual Machines
■ Management Domain
■ Domains
■ Paravirtualization, Hardware Virtualization, and Binary Translation
■ Creating Virtual Machines
■ Managing Domains
2.1 Oracle VM Server
Oracle VM Server includes an updated version of the underlying Xen™ hypervisor
technology, and the Oracle VM Agent. It also includes a Linux kernel with support for
a broad array of devices, file systems, and software RAID volume management. The
Linux kernel is run as dom0 to manage one or more domU virtual machines, each of
which could be Linux or Microsoft Windows. Figure 2–1, "Oracle VM Server" shows
the components of Oracle VM Server.
Figure 2–1 Oracle VM Server

Oracle VM Specifications

General

Live Migration	Yes
Developer	Oracle Corporation
Storage Support	NFS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, Local Storage
Category	Server
Host OS Support	Oracle Linux, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux
Guest OS Support	Oracle Linux, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, Windows, Solaris
Management	Oracle VM Manager
High Availability	Yes
Network Support	VLAN