WebLogic Server 11 g to simplify administrative operations via a Web-browser-based user
interface. “If you have a Web browser, you
can connect to our management console,”
he said, where you can discover and manage
thousands of virtual machines and physical
servers, configure virtual networks, and create
server pools. Oracle VM Manager is also
used to access VM Storage Connect, Oracle’s
plug-in architecture that leverages native
capabilities, such as snapshots and cloning, in
third-party storage systems.
Other features of Oracle VM Manager
3.0 include dynamic power management,
which automatically consolidates virtual
servers and powers down hardware when
workloads are low, and reverses the process
when demand increases; dynamic resource
scheduling, which ensures that adequate
network and CPU resources are available
to keep VMs running optimally; and high
availability, which can reboot a crashed VM
automatically or migrate a mission-critical
VM to another physical server if hardware
fails. Oracle VM Manager 3.0 also includes
an improved live migrate feature and an
enhanced Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder.
T YING IT ALL TOGETHER
Oracle VM’s pricing is based solely on
support costs. Oracle VM support for a two-
socket server with unlimited memory costs
US$599 per server; servers with more than
two sockets cost US$1,199 per server. For
example, based on 250 two-socket servers
with 96 GB of memory, Oracle VM costs
more than US$2.5 million less than VMware
vSphere 5 over three years, when VMware’s
license and support costs are totaled. “We’re
very low cost compared to our competitors,”
Coekaerts said. “We have all the features
that people need, and we’re tying in stuff
that others can’t because we have all the
components in-house.”
Oracle VM is simply the best choice,
Screven said, whether you’re virtualizing
an Oracle workload or a non-Oracle work-
load. Wrapping up the event, he concluded:
“We’re more scalable, certainly less expen-
sive, and very focused on making sure that
our customers can use virtualization in an
application-driven way.” T
Fred Sandsmark is a regular contributor to
Oracle Magazine.
NEXT STEPS
LEARN more about Oracle virtualization
solutions
oracle.com/us/technologies/virtualization
WATCH the launch event Webcast
oracle.com/us/corporate/events/oraclevmlaunch
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VM 3.0
oracle.com/us/media/calculator/vm
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