5.1 Oracle VM and Oracle Exadata

When deploying Oracle Exadata, you can decide to implement Oracle VM on the database servers.

Oracle VM Server and one or more Oracle VM guests are installed on every database server. You can configure Oracle VM environments on your initial deployment using scripts created by Oracle Exadata Deployment Assistant (OEDA) or you can migrate an existing environment to Oracle VM.

Note:

Oracle VM is not supported on 8-socket servers, such as X7-8.

• About Oracle VM
  Oracle VM enables you to deploy the Oracle Linux operating system and application software within a supported virtualization environment.
• Oracle VM Deployment Specifications and Limits
  This topic describes the deployment specifications and limits for using Oracle VM on Oracle Exadata Database Machine.
• Supported Operations in the Management Domain (dom0)
  Manually modifying the dom0 can result in configuration issues for Oracle VM Server, which can degrade performance or cause a loss of service.
• Oracle VM Resources
  Two fundamental parts of the Oracle VM infrastructure – networking and storage – are configured outside of the Oracle VM.