Oracle today announced the general
availability of Oracle
VM Release
3.2, a key component in Oracle's desktop
to data center virtualization portfolio, providing greater operational
efficiency with improved ease-of-use, and more automated processes including
full command-line support.
Oracle VM Manager now offers unified
virtualization management for Oracle SPARC
T-Series Servers running Oracle VM Server for SPARC as
well as x86-based servers running Oracle VM Server for x86.
Greater Operational Efficiency and
Increased Flexibility at a Fraction of the Cost
- Designed for ease of use and rapid
deployment, new features of Oracle VM 3.2 include:
- Broader deployment
choices
- In addition to x86 virtualization
management, Oracle VM Manager can now discover SPARC servers and create and
manage Oracle VM Server for SPARC domains to allow unified and centralized
management in mixed data centers, improving operational
efficiency.
- Oracle VM Manager also includes MySQL
Enterprise Edition for use as the management repository at no additional cost.
Oracle VM customers can now choose to use Oracle Database Enterprise Edition,
Oracle Database Standard Edition or MySQL Enterprise Edition as the Oracle VM
Manager repository when deploying in production
environments.
- Greater automation and ease-of-use,
for more efficiency in large environments
- Full command-line support enables easy
automation: Oracle
VM Manager Command Line Interface (CLI) supports the same functions as the
Oracle VM Manager browser interface. Common tasks can be scripted and fully
automated, saving time and lowering the risk
of human error.
- Automated Oracle VM Manager
back-up: When using
MySQL Enterprise Edition as the Oracle VM Manager database, the management
repository is automatically backed-up, permitting rapid recovery of the
management environment if needed.
- Tag objects for faster identification
of key groups in large environments: Allows custom tags to be created and
used to filter the view of VMs and servers in the user interface (UI), enabling
users to quickly identify and act on specific subsets of VMs or
servers.
- "Multi-select" of
objects: Enables
users to take action on multiple objects in one step for faster operations in
large environments.
- At-a-glance health
status: A health
status tab in the Oracle VM Manager UI offers expanded and summarized health and
status reporting on VM statistics such as memory and CPU usage, allowing for
rapid identification of issues before they become
problems.
- Direct import of virtual machines into
an Oracle VM Manager environment: Reduces the number of steps required
to move VMs into an Oracle VM Manager
installation.
- Oracle has also delivered Oracle VM
Server for SPARC 3.0, providing a range of important new features such as
automated secure live migration, power management, and dynamic resource
management, enabling best-in-class cloud infrastructure services with the Oracle
SPARC T-Series servers.
- With Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.0,
users can live migrate Oracle Solaris 10 and Oracle Solaris 11 logical domains
simply and securely across differing CPU types, using cpu crypto accelerators,
to permit zero downtime cutovers of domains to newer generation
environments.
- Oracle VM continues be available as a
free
download with
zero license cost and world-class enterprise
support.
"With the latest release
of Oracle VM, Oracle continues to bring significant cost-of-ownership and
manageabi
lity benefits to x86- and now SPARC
virtualization administrators," said Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president, Linux
and Virtualization Engineering, Oracle. "The new release helps users unify and
automate their environments on a larger scale to achieve the greatest efficiency
from their infrastructure."