Chapter 2. Introduction to Oracle VM

Table of Contents

2.1. Introduction to Oracle VM
2.2. Oracle VM Features
2.3. Terminology
2.3.1. Hypervisor
2.3.2. Domains, Guests and Virtual Machines
2.3.3. Management Domain (dom0)
2.3.4. Domains (domU)
2.3.5. Storage and Storage Repositories
2.3.6. Server Pools
2.3.7. Networks
2.3.8. Jobs and Events
2.4. Servers and Server Pools
2.5. Storage
2.5.1. Plug-in-based Implementation
2.5.2. Usage of Storage Elements
2.6. Networking
2.7. High Availability, Load Balancing and Power Management
2.8. Virtual Machines
2.9. Deployment Options
2.10. Oracle VM Pre-built Templates
2.11. Managing Oracle VM Environment using Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c

This chapter contains introductory information about Oracle VM, its components, architecture, and deployment options.