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Creating a virtual RAC using oracle VM templates

Our latest toy at portrix systems is an oracle VM testing environment, consisting of three sun servers, a 7120 Storage an a lot of enthusiasm to explore this exciting technology as deeply as possible....

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Migrating a solaris server into Oracle VM using p2v

For my latest experiment with oracle VM I took a look at the p2v capabilty. p2v stands for “physical to virtual” and does exactly, what the name suggests: converting a physical server to a virtual...

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Oracle VM and bond0 aka the management interface

While working with Oracle VM one thing we stumbled across was that it always created a bond interface for management purposes. While it is perfectly fine to have a bond interface for failover reasons –...

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VNC Console password broken in Oracle VM 3.1.1?

I have seen this come up several in our OVM system recently: Machines installed from Oracle Templates asking for a password when connecting via the VNC console in OVM manager. I cannot remember needing...

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import Solaris 11 OVM template

In order to setup an automatic install server, I first needed a running Solaris 11 system. We already have an Oracle VM Cluster with of spare resources. So the easiest way for me to get access to a...

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taking hot backups with Oracle VM

Propably my major complaint about oracle vm is it’s lack of a hot backup solution for virtual machines. There is simply no documented or supported way to back up running virtual machines – crazy. Of...

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Oracle VM 3 storage choices – part 1: intro, types and support

During my most recent installation of an Oracle VM 3.2 server pool, I was pondering again all the different options to manage storage with OVM, wrote them down together with pros and cons (to help me...

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Linux Huge Pages in Oracle VM 3

My last post was about properly determining the number of hugepages needed with the newest version of the unbreakable enterprise kernel UEK R3 in Oracle Linux. Aside from the little issue with the...

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firewall port for ZFS Appliance with Oracle VM Storageconnect

I just stumbled across this and could not find it anywhere else on the net. I set up a ZFS Appliance with Oracle VM and their storageconnect plugin according to the documentation pdf (which are pretty...

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resize linux root disk in Oracle VM

I just needed to grow my root fs on an Oracle Linux guest VM running in OVM 3.2 and I thought I’d share the process with you. A lot of the steps are taken from a similar blog on doing a similar thing...

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