• Title and Copyright Information
• Preface
• 1 Configuring Oracle VM Server After Installation
  • 1.1 Installing Oracle VM Storage Connect plug-ins
  • 1.2 Enabling Multipath I/O Support
  • 1.3 Configuring Software RAID for Storage
    • 1.3.1 Removing Software RAID Devices
  • 1.4 Diagnostic Tools for Oracle VM Server
    • 1.4.1 Working with the OSWatcher Utility on Oracle VM Server
    • 1.4.2 Manually Configuring kdump for Oracle VM Server
  • 1.5 Disabling Paravirtualized Guests on Oracle VM Server
  • 1.6 Changing the Memory Size of the Management Domain
  • 1.7 Configuring Oracle VM Server for SPARC
    • 1.7.1 Creating ZFS Volumes
    • 1.7.2 Configuring a Secondary Service Domain
• 2 Configuring Oracle VM Manager After Installation
  • 2.1 Configuring Oracle VM Manager Web Interface Session Timeout
  • 2.2 Setting Up SSL
    • 2.2.1 Oracle VM Key Tool
    • 2.2.2 Showing the Certificate Configuration
    • 2.2.3 Validating the Certificate Configuration
    • 2.2.4 Exporting the CA Certificate
    • 2.2.5 Generating a New SSL Key
    • 2.2.6 Changing the Default SSL Certificate
    • 2.2.7 Changing the Keystore Password
• 3 Administering Oracle VM Manager
  • 3.1 Oracle VM Manager Administrator Tool (ovm_admin)
    • 3.1.1 Listing Users
    • 3.1.2 Creating Users
    • 3.1.3 Deleting Users
    • 3.1.4 Changing User Passwords
    • 3.1.5 Configure Account Locking
    • 3.1.6 Unlocking User Accounts
    • 3.1.7 Listing Data Sources
    • 3.1.8 Modifying the Oracle VM Manager Database Schema
    • 3.1.9 Rotating Log Files
    • 3.1.10 Changing the Password for the MySQL Root User
  • 3.2 Working with the MySQL Instance
• 4 Managing Oracle VM Manager Authentication
  • 4.1 Default Oracle VM Manager Users
  • 4.2 Changing the Oracle VM Manager User Password
  • 4.3 Restricting User Authentication to Oracle WebLogic Server Groups
  • 4.4 Enabling LDAP and Active Directory Authentication
• 5 Monitoring Oracle VM Server with SNMP
  • 5.1 Installed SNMP Packages
  • 5.2 Adding the Oracle VM Server Object Module
  • 5.3 Enabling the SNMP Service
  • 5.4 How to Retrieve MIB Objects
• 6 Updating Oracle VM Server with Oracle Ksplice
  • 6.1 What Is Oracle Ksplice?
  • 6.2 Prerequisites for Ksplice on Oracle VM Server
  • 6.3 Accessing ULN Channels
  • 6.4 Configuring Yum for Oracle Ksplice
  • 6.5 Installing the Ksplice Enhanced Client
  • 6.6 Installing Oracle Ksplice Updates on Oracle VM Server
• 7 Provisioning ISO Files for PVM Guest Installations
• 8 Installing and Using the Oracle VM Guest Additions
  • 8.1 Features of the Oracle VM Guest Additions
  • 8.2 Oracle VM Guest Additions Packages
  • 8.3 Downloading the Oracle VM Guest Additions Packages
  • 8.4 Installing the Oracle VM Guest Additions
  • 8.5 Upgrading the Oracle VM Guest Additions
  • 8.6 Using the Oracle VM Guest Additions (ovmd)
    • 8.6.1 Using the Oracle VM Guest Additions Daemon to Enable First-Boot Configuration
    • 8.6.2 Sending Messages to Virtual Machines
    • 8.6.3 Configuring the Oracle VM Guest Additions Daemon to Run as a Service
  • 8.7 Using the Oracle VM Guest Additions with Microsoft Windows (ovmcmd)
  • 8.8 The Oracle VM Template Configuration Script and Modules
    • 8.8.1 Template Configuration Script (ovm-template-config)
    • 8.8.2 Enabling and Disabling Configuration Modules (ovm-chkconfig)
    • 8.8.3 Key-Value Pairs Used By Available Configuration Modules
    • 8.8.4 Triggering Configuration Changes
    • 8.8.5 Developing Oracle VM Template Configuration Modules
• 9 Using the Oracle VM Utilities
  • 9.1 Oracle VM Virtual Machine Control (ovm_vmcontrol)
  • 9.2 Oracle VM Retrieve Disk (ovm_vmdisks)
  • 9.3 Oracle VM Hostd For Metrics Messaging (ovm_vmhostd)
  • 9.4 Retrieving Host Metrics from Virtual Machines (vm-dump-metrics)
• 10 Converting Physical Hosts to Virtual Machines
  • 10.1 Introduction to the P2V Utility
  • 10.2 Converting Hosts in Interactive Mode
  • 10.3 Converting Hosts Silently with a Kickstart File
  • 10.4 Importing Guests as Virtual Machine Templates to Oracle VM Manager
• 11 Installing and Configuring the Oracle VM Exporter Appliance
  • 11.1 Considerations
  • 11.2 Installing the Oracle VM Exporter Appliance
  • 11.3 Creating the Oracle VM Exporter Appliance Virtual Machine
  • 11.4 Configuring the Oracle VM Exporter Appliance Virtual Machine
• 12 Backing up and Restoring Oracle VM Components
  • 12.1 Backing up and Restoring Oracle VM Manager
    • 12.1.1 Backing up the Oracle VM Manager Configuration File
    • 12.1.2 Backing up the MySQL Database Repository
    • 12.1.3 Oracle VM Manager Backup and Restore Troubleshooting
    • 12.1.4 Restoring Oracle VM Manager
    • 12.1.5 Restoring Oracle VM Manager If You Have No Database Backup
    • 12.1.6 Oracle WebLogic Server Backup and Restore
  • 12.2 Backing up Virtual Machines
• 13 Troubleshooting Oracle VM
  • 13.1 Capturing Diagnostic Information for Oracle VM
  • 13.2 Troubleshooting Oracle VM Server
    • 13.2.1 Oracle VM Server Debugging Tools
    • 13.2.2 Using DHCP on Oracle VM Servers
    • 13.2.3 Cannot Use Certain Key Combinations When Connecting to Dom0 Console
    • 13.2.4 Storage Array LUN Remapping on Oracle VM Servers
    • 13.2.5 Tuning ISCSI Settings on Oracle VM Servers
    • 13.2.6 Troubleshooting Clustered Server Pools Oracle VM Server for x86
    • 13.2.7 Allocating Memory for Multiple Infiniband HCAs
    • 13.2.8 Resolving Issue Where NIC Fails to Get IP Address if Configured for DHCP
  • 13.3 Troubleshooting Oracle VM Manager
    • 13.3.1 Oracle VM Manager Log Files
    • 13.3.2 Oracle VM Manager Web Interface Database Synchronization
    • 13.3.3 Increasing the Memory Allocated to Oracle WebLogic Server
    • 13.3.4 No File Systems Found When Searching a Storage Server
    • 13.3.5 Cannot Discover Servers to Oracle VM Manager Due To Time Differences
    • 13.3.6 Cannot Create a Clustered Server Pool on a Disk that already has an OCFS2 File System
    • 13.3.7 Cannot Create a Repository on a Device that has Partitions
    • 13.3.8 Removing Oracle VM Template Configuration Packages on Oracle Linux 5 Hosts
    • 13.3.9 Unable to Manage Oracle VM Server for x86 at Release 3.2.10 or 3.2.11, and Oracle VM Agent for SPARC at Release 3.3.1
  • 13.4 Troubleshooting Virtual Machines
    • 13.4.1 Setting the Guest's Clock
    • 13.4.2 Wallclock Time Skew Problems
    • 13.4.3 Mouse Pointer Tracking Problems
    • 13.4.4 Cloning Virtual Machine from Oracle VM 2.x Template Stuck in Pending
    • 13.4.5 Hardware Virtualized Guest Stops
    • 13.4.6 Migrating Virtual Machines
    • 13.4.7 Recovering From A Failed Local Virtual Machine Migration
    • 13.4.8 Migrating Large Hardware Virtualized Guest Results in CPU Soft Lock
    • 13.4.9 Hardware Virtualized Guest Devices Not Working as Expected
    • 13.4.10 Paravirtualized Guest Disk Devices are Not Recognized
    • 13.4.11 Cannot Create a Virtual Machine from Installation Media
    • 13.4.12 Cannot Change CD in the Virtual Machine
    • 13.4.13 Generating Guest Dump Files on Oracle VM Server (x86)
    • 13.4.14 Tuning a Linux-based Virtual Machine for Handling Storage Migration
• Glossary
• Index