Oracle® Virtual Assembly Builder User's Guide 11g Release 1.1 (11.1.1) Part Number E22514-01 |
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This book details conceptual, topology and configuration topics about Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder. This Preface includes the following topics:
The intended audience is system administrators who will use Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder for their organization.
This release of Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder contains the following new features or product enhancements:
Oracle Universal Installer: this release of Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder is installed and configured using Oracle Universal Installer.
Custom certificates for deployer identity: in addition to the Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder-provided demonstration self-signed root certificate, you now have the option to use your own custom, more secure certificate for communicating with the Deployer from your OracleVM environment for assembly deployment.
Oracle Coherence*Web: Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder now supports introspection and deployment of Oracle Coherence*Web as part of an Oracle WebLogic Server assembly. It supports out of process Coherence cache clusters and servers configured as part of an Oracle WebLogic Server domain.
Custom reconfiguration scripts: ability to add custom scripts to an appliance that will be run on a virtual machine as part of deployment of the appliance. With this feature you can configure, and/or operate a custom product or component that gets deployed with an Oracle product in an appliance.
External Appliances: a virtual machine template created outside of Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder and compatible with deployment on Oracle VM 2.2 can be imported into a Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder catalog as an external appliance. Once imported, external appliances can be edited, added and deployed as part of any assembly.
Simplified HOMEs: replacing the previous $AB_HOME is $ORACLE_HOME. $AB_CONFIG_HOME and $AB_CATALOG_HOME have been consolidated into one $AB_INSTANCE. $ORACLE_HOME contains the Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder binaries and $AB_INSTANCE contains an instance of Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder catalog, configuration and logs. You can still have more than one $AB_INSTANCE within an $ORACLE_HOME.
To use a different catalog you must either set a different AB_INSTANCE in your environment or use abctl from the particular $AB_INSTANCE/bin of the $AB_INSTANCE you want to target.
Expanded Oracle Database support: support for single-instance Oracle Database versions has been expanded from 11gR1 only to 10gR2, 11gR1 and 11gR2.
Option to introspect and package together: you now have the option to perform the packaging function at the same time as introspection of an appliance or assembly from both Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio and abctl. This enables the product binaries to be immediately captured and stored in the catalog at introspection time.
Security enhancements: templates are now retrieved by Oracle VM over HTTPS, and the setuid wrapper has improved hardening capabilities.
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