Chapter 1. Introduction to Oracle VM
As stated in the Preface, Oracle VM Manager is a management product developed by Oracle that complements the Oracle Grid Control. Oracle VM Manager is increasingly popular within the Oracle community. In addition, firms that weren't Oracle customers are now adopting it, due to its low cost high-end support. This is clearly good news for Oracle as it really needs to find its place in this new and emerging market.
At the time of writing this book, Oracle has joined the Xen.org advisory board, thus joining the companies IBM, HP, Sun, and others who understand the need of Open Source hypervisors in this increasingly commoditizing market. This is great news as Oracle's VM is derived from the Open Source project Xen. This is a very important development for the Open Source Virtualization revolution and Oracle is poised to benefit from it tremendously.
In this chapter we will be covering the following topics:
- Virtualization: A general introduction
- Oracle VM components: This will comprise of Oracle VM Manager, Oracle VM Server, and Oracle VM Agent
- Xen hypervisor: Domains, VMs, and much more.