Chapter 6 Managing Server Pools and Oracle VM Servers

Table of Contents

6.1 Server Pool Overview
6.2 Server Pool Clusters
6.3 Unclustered Server Pools
6.4 High Availability (HA)
6.5 Server Pool Policies
6.5.1 Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
6.5.2 Distributed Power Management (DPM)
6.5.3 DRS/DPM Network Policies
6.6 Anti-Affinity Groups
6.6.1 Creating an Anti-Affinity Group
6.6.2 Editing an Anti-Affinity Group
6.6.3 Deleting an Anti-Affinity Group
6.7 Server Processor Compatibility Groups
6.7.1 Creating a Server Processor Compatibility Group
6.7.2 Editing a Server Processor Compatibility Group
6.7.3 Deleting a Server Processor Compatibility Group
6.8 Creating a Server Pool
6.9 Managing Server Pools
6.9.1 Oracle VM Server Roles
6.9.2 Adding an Oracle VM Server to a Server Pool
6.9.3 Removing an Oracle VM Server from a Server Pool
6.9.4 Editing a Server Pool
6.9.5 Selecting the Master Oracle VM Server
6.9.6 Changing Oracle VM Agent Passwords on Oracle VM Servers
6.9.7 Editing Server Pool Policies
6.9.8 Deleting Server Pools
6.10 Managing Oracle VM Servers
6.10.1 Discovering Oracle VM Servers
6.10.2 Rediscovering Oracle VM Servers
6.10.3 Taking Ownership of an Oracle VM Server
6.10.4 Viewing Oracle VM Server Information and Events
6.10.5 Editing Oracle VM Server Information
6.10.6 Starting Oracle VM Servers
6.10.7 Stopping Oracle VM Servers
6.10.8 Killing Oracle VM Servers
6.10.9 Restarting Oracle VM Servers
6.10.10 Placing an Oracle VM Server into Maintenance Mode
6.10.11 Updating and Upgrading Oracle VM Servers
6.10.12 Managing Ethernet Ports and Network Bonding on an Oracle VM Server
6.10.13 Managing Access Groups and Storage Initiators on an Oracle VM Server
6.10.14 Managing Physical Disks on an Oracle VM Server
6.10.15 Viewing Oracle VM Server Operating System Information and Control Domains
6.10.16 Deleting Oracle VM Servers from Oracle VM Manager
6.10.17 Managing NTP on Oracle VM Servers

A server pool is a domain of physical and virtual resources to host virtual machines, perform virtual machine migration, HA, and so on.

This chapter describes how to create and manage server pools and Oracle VM Servers.