1. Converged UA
  2. Simulator Labs for Oracle Database Appliance
  3. Simulator Labs Overview
  4. Lab 4 - Virtualization: Create Application and Database KVMs
 

Step 1 - Create an Application KVM (Compute Instance)

Before you create an application KVM on Oracle Database Appliance, you must create the following:

  • CPU Pool
  • VM Storage
  • Virtual Disk
  • Virtual Network

You must create a guest operating system (Linux or Windows) ISO image to create the application KVM instance. After that, you must configure the guest operating system, networking (set IP address) so that you can access the VM to install applications.  You can also modify and delete an application KVM.

First, create a CPU Pool for the application KVM. In the BUI, click CPU Pool, and then click Create CPU Pool. Enter the following information, then click Create.

Create CPU Pool

You can see the CPU pool App1 is created.  A CPU pool is optional and not required to create an application KVM.

CPU Pools list

Next, create the VM Storage. Select the VM Storage tab, and then click Create VM Storage.

VM Storage tab

Enter the following information for vmstorage1, and then click Create.  VM Storage can be used by different application KVMs.

Create VM Storage

You can see vmstorage1 is created.

Create VM Storage

Next, create a virtual disk vdisk to be used by the application KVM.  Select the Virtual Disks tab and click Create Virtual Disk. 

Virtual Disk tab

Select Create Virtual Disk, then click Next.

Create Virtual Disk

Enter the following information for vdisk1, and then click Create.

Create Virtual Disk

You can see vdisk1 is created.

Virtual Disk Created

Create a virtual network for the KVM. Select the Virtual Networks tab, and then click Create Virtual Network.


Create Virtual Network

Specify the Virtual Network information, then click Create.

Create Virtual Network

You can see the virtual network vmnet1 is created.

Virtual network Created

Create an application KVM (Compute Instance). Select the VM Instances tab, and then click Create VM Instance.

Create VM Instance

Select Create VM Instance, then click Next.

Create VM Instance

Specify the information for AppKVM1, then click Create.  Note the Source Installation path to the Linux ISO image. Note that the VM disk size is 10GB.  VM disk is the local system boot disk where the Linux image is installed.

Create VM Instance

You can see AppKVM1 instance is created.

VM Instance Created

You can see the detailed information for AppKVM1 by clicking on AppKVM1. 

Detailed VM Instance information

If you want to modify the VM instance, then click the VM Instance tab. For AppKVM1, click the Actions dropdown and then click Modify.

Modify VM Instance

This is where you can modify AppKVM1.

Modify VM Instance

To delete an application KVM, from the VM Instances tab, click the Actions dropdown, and then click Delete.

Delete Application KVM