A server pool contains a group of Oracle VM Servers, which as a group perform virtual machine management tasks, such as:
A storage repository sotres Oracle VM resources such as:
Storage refers to two different types of disk space:
You can use two types of storage for virtual machines:
raw disks: SAN volumes, iSCSI targets and LUNs
Oracle VM has a number of network functions (port):
The VNIC Manager creates Virtual Network Interface Cards (VNICs), which can be used by virtual machines as network cards.
Before you can create a virtual machine which has the ability to connect to the network, you should generate a set of VNICs.
A virtual machine can be created from:
An assembly is the most recent format used by Oracle to publish Oracle VM templates.
An assembly is the same as a virtual machine template, but in the open standard Open Virtualization Format (OVF) format. Older Oracle VM template files were packaged as Oracle VM template files, and the more recent templates are packaged in OVF format as assemblies.
Example: an Oracle VM template which contains an template.ova file ( and ovf template format)
Steps:
## Start a simple HTTP server from the local repository
nohup python -m SimpleHTTPServer &
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...
localhost - - [16/Apr/2015 19:13:50] "GET /BigDataLite41.ova HTTP/1.1" 200 -
You can follow the upload with the job panel.
A virtual machine template contains:
packaged as an Oracle VM template file.
If necessary:
An operating system ISO file is an image of the CDROM or DVD used to perform an operating system installation.
A hypervisor or virtual machine monitor (VMM) is a piece of computer software, firmware or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines. See: wiki/Xen
Virtual machines may run in one of two main modes:
See Xen Gest Type
An hardware virtual machine (HVM) guest can only access 4 disk images, while a Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) guest can access at least 16. If your template resolved to a HVM guest, if the OS inside is Xen-based, you can switch the guest from HVM to PVM.