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OVM Reasons to Use Virtualization for Oracle
In large companies, like Oracle, it’s understandable when product messaging conflicts other company products. For example, Oracle VM doesn’t support Inifiniband so a customer cannot run OVM on Exadata. Thus, the Exadata messaging is: physical consolidation via compression and other features while conversely OVM is messaging is virtual consolidation. I’m reading the new OVM manual found here: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E20065_01/doc.30/e18549.pdf and it put a big smile on my face as they are supporting ALL reasons we have been talking about for virtualizing Oracle. Here are the reasons to use virtualization from Oracle’s OVM Administration manual:
- Resource optimization
- Consolidation
- Maximizing Uptime
- Automatically Protect Application from Server Failure
- Easily Migrate Workloads
- Protect Investments in Existing, Legacy Systems
With the exception of ‘Easily Migrate Workloads’ and ‘Protect Investments in Existing, Legacy Systems’ the messaging between Exadata and Oracle OVM is very similar (but technically different). On the surface the virtualization features detailed by Oracle seem to address many Exadata key points while adding the flexibility to migrate workloads and protect existing investments that aren’t hallmarks of moving to Exadata.
BartS
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December 15th, 2011 03:00
They don't talk about the most important reason to virtualise (saving millions on DB licences) ??
reseach
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December 19th, 2011 01:00
Lic and maintenance fee are huge cheese to Oracle. I believe OVM is a conversion tool make customer $ moving from one pool ( database lic) to other pool. Just not fully ready.