Software facilitates server virtualization processes.
September 30, 2008 -
Comprised of open source server software and Web-based management console, OracleŽ VM v2.1.2 helps optimize data center resources while reducing hardware, energy, and facility costs. Server clustering and virtualization technologies deliver complete grid computing infrastructure, while GUI facilitates creation and management of virtual server pools. Other features include secure, encrypted live migration capabilities and physical-to-virtual/virtual-to-virtual machine conversion.
Oracle Delivers Latest Release of OracleŽ VM and Adds Oracle Real Application Clusters Certification
Comprehensive High-Availability Across Complete Virtualized Software Stack Helps Customers Reduce Costs, Ecological Impact and Risk
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 -- ORACLE OPENWORLD --
News Facts
-- Delivering on its commitment to help customers optimize data center resources while reducing hardware, energy, and facility costs, Oracle today announced the latest release of its Oracle(R) VM server virtualization software.
-- Oracle VM release 2.1.2 offers built in high availability features and also provides secure, encrypted live migration capabilities.
-- Additionally, this release of Oracle VM is certified with Oracle Real Application Clusters, adding to the list of Oracle products certified with Oracle VM.
-- Oracle combines the benefits of server clustering and server virtualization technologies to deliver a complete Grid Computing infrastructure, enabling customers to easily deploy and support their virtualized enterprise applications.
-- Today's announcement supports Oracle's strategy of delivering complete, integrated and end-to-end product suites on an open, standards-based middleware and database architecture. Oracle's approach helps customers to simplify computing environments, lower cost and risk, and provides greater choice and flexibility.
Enabling Rapid and Secure Virtualized Deployments
-- Consisting of open source server software and an integrated Web browser-based management console, Oracle VM provides an easy-to-use, rich, graphical interface for creating and managing virtual server pools, running on x86 and x86-64-based systems across an enterprise.
-- Within the first year of its introduction, Oracle VM has delivered significant enhancements based on an aggressive technical roadmap. Key features of the new Oracle VM release include:
-- Oracle VM Guest High Availability: Enabling customers to minimize or eliminate planned and unplanned downtime.
-- Secure Live Migration with SSL-Encryption: Eliminating outages associated with planned downtime by allowing quick and easy migration of running VMs from one physical server to another. Oracle VM is the first major virtualization solution to SSL-encrypt migration traffic by default to protect sensitive data.
-- Clustered HA Oracle VM Manager: Using Oracle Clusterware, the Oracle VM Manager can be configured for maximum availability.
-- Physical-to-Virtual / Virtual-to-Virtual Machine Conversion: To quickly convert existing Linux physical servers or VMware virtual machines to Oracle VM virtual machines and capitalize on more efficient and faster server virtualization with Oracle VM.
-- Together, Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle VM extend Oracle's support for grid computing with the ability to virtualize within, as well as across servers. Oracle's grid computing-based solutions together with Oracle VM are capable of virtualizing all infrastructure resources, data and applications to provide a complete virtualization solution.
-- Results of a recent performance certification by The Tolly Group indicate Oracle VM delivers an exceptionally low, six percent, performance overhead even under heavy workload. This further demonstrates Oracle VM's outstanding performance amongst available server virtualization solutions where 20-30 percent performance overhead has previously been considered typical.
-- In addition, Oracle offers Oracle VM Templates. Oracle VM Templates provide a time-saving approach to deploying a fully configured software stack by providing pre-installed and pre-configured images of enterprise software.
Supporting Quotes
-- "Oracle is committed to enabling customer to run their data centers in a more cost-effective, ecological, risk-free way -- while maintaining the high availability and performance they require to run their mission critical applications," said Wim Coekaerts, vice president Linux Engineering, Oracle. "Oracle VM delivers scalable, low-cost server virtualization for the complete software stack, helping customers deploy and support their enterprise applications. With the new high availability and live migration features, customers can more confidently deploy their enterprise applications in a virtual environment."
-- "We are pleased to announce Oracle Real Application Clusters support for Oracle VM, the first platform RAC will support for an x86 virtual machine environment. Customers can now realize the high availability and scalability benefits of Real Application Clusters in their Oracle Virtual Machine environments," says Angelo Pruscino, Oracle's Senior Vice President of Clustering technology.
Availability and Pricing
-- The latest release of Oracle VM is available for free download at: http://www.oracle.com/virtualization.
-- Pricing for 24x7 enterprise-class support for Oracle VM is priced on a per-system basis. A system with up to two CPUs is $599 per year per system and a system with unlimited CPUs is $1,199 per year per system.
-- Oracle Customer Services provides complete coverage of Oracle VM with the world's leading portfolio of IT lifecycle-based service and support offerings, including Linux operating system support, thereby providing customers a single point of support for their virtualized environments. Oracle Customer Services is focused on helping customers maximize their success with Oracle solutions while lowering the total cost of ownership through continued advances in providing personalized, proactive support and knowledge management capabilities.
Oracle VM Webcast (http://tinyurl.com/5r44ku)
Oracle Expert Blog: Wim Coekaerts (http://blogs.oracle.com/wim/)
About Oracle
Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com/.
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