Concepts Guide for Release 3.3
E50249-08
July 2017
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction to Virtualization
- 2 Oracle VM Overview
- 2.1 What is the Oracle VM Architecture?
- 2.2 What is Oracle VM Server?
- 2.3 What is Oracle VM Manager?
- 2.4 What is a Oracle VM Guest?
- 2.5 Authentication and Encryption in Oracle VM
- 2.6 What Else does Oracle VM Require?
- 2.7 What are Virtual Machines?
- 2.8 What Features Does Oracle VM Provide?
- 2.9 What Support is Available for Oracle VM?
- 2.10 Can Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Manage Oracle VM?
- 3 Understanding Storage
- 3.1 What is Storage Used for in Oracle VM?
- 3.2 What Types of Storage Can be Used?
- 3.3 How is a Storage Created?
- 3.4 How do Different Storage Types Connect?
- 3.5 What is Multipathing?
- 3.6 What are Uniform and Non-uniform Exports?
- 3.7 What are Access Groups?
- 3.8 How is Storage Used for Server Pool Clustering?
- 3.9 Where are Virtual Machine Resources Located?
- 3.10 Are there Guidelines for Configuring Storage?
- 4 Understanding Repositories
- 4.1 What are the Repository Prerequisites?
- 4.2 How is a Repository Organized?
- 4.3 How is a Repository Created?
- 4.4 How do Oracle VM Servers Access a Repository?
- 4.5 What Virtual Machine Resources are in a Repository?
- 4.6 How are Virtual Machine Templates Managed?
- 4.7 How are Assemblies Managed?
- 4.8 How are ISO Files (CD/DVD Images) Managed?
- 4.9 How are Virtual Disks Managed?
- 4.10 How are Virtual Machine Configuration Files Managed?
- 4.11 Can the Repository be Backed Up?
- 5 Understanding Networks
- 5.1 Networking Terminology
- 5.2 How are Networks Used in Oracle VM?
- 5.3 How are IP Addresses Assigned?
- 5.4 How is Network Bonding Used in Oracle VM?
- 5.5 How are VLANs Used in Oracle VM?
- 5.6 How are Network Functions Separated in Oracle VM?
- 5.7 Network Planning for an Oracle VM Deployment
- 5.8 Dealing with Failed Network Operations
- 6 Understanding Server Pools and Oracle VM Servers
- 6.1 How are Oracle VM Servers Added?
- 6.2 What are Server Roles?
- 6.3 How is Maintenance Performed on an Oracle VM Server?
- 6.4 Configuring NTP for Oracle VM Servers.
- 6.5 Rebooting and Changing Power State of Oracle VM Servers
- 6.6 What are Server Pools used for in Oracle VM?
- 6.7 How are Server Pools Created?
- 6.8 How do Server Pool Clusters Work?
- 6.9 Unclustered Server Pools
- 6.10 How does High Availability (HA) Work?
- 6.11 What are Server Pool Policies?
- 6.12 What are Anti-Affinity Groups?
- 6.13 What are Server Processor Compatibility Groups?
- 7 Understanding Virtual Machines
- 7.1 What are Virtualization Modes or Domain Types?
- 7.2 How is a Guest OS Installed on a Virtual Machine?
- 7.3 Where are Virtual Machine Resources Stored?
- 7.4 What Networking is Available for Virtual Machines?
- 7.5 How are Virtual Machines Created?
- 7.6 How does Cloning Work?
- 7.7 How Can a Virtual Machine be Moved or Migrated?
- 7.8 Editing Virtual Machine Parameters
- 7.9 Sending Messages to Virtual Machines
- 7.10 Accessing the Virtual Machine Console
- 7.11 How Can I Protect Virtual Machines?
- 7.12 How are Virtual CPUs Allocated to Virtual Machines
- 7.13 How are Huge Pages Enabled for Virtual Machines?
- 7.14 Setting Hard Partitioning for Virtual Machine CPUs
- 7.15 How are Virtual Machines Backed Up?
- 8 Understanding Jobs, Events and Errors
- Glossary
- Index