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A Platform for Making Use of Physical and Virtual Sun Environments

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center is the newest addition in the Oracle Enterprise Manager family. It is used to manage both physical and virtual systems, and manages across the entire system lifecycle from discovery to provisioning, updating, monitoring and management.

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Oracle VM 3 Expected to be Released This Spring

The Oracle virtualization portfolio got a boost with the company’s acquisition of Sun, and it has signaled a willingness to take on VMware. Oracle VM 3, which is expected this spring, will give Oracle credible Xen-based server virtualization that could challenge VMware, Microsoft and Citrix Systems Inc. — at least in the tens of thousands of Oracle database and application shops. A SearchServerVirtualization.com article explores Oracle’s virtualization play.

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Now the World’s Largest Purveyor of Open Source Software

With its acquisition of Sun, Oracle is now the world’s largest purveyor of open source software. However, as Ken Hess notes on the DaniWeb Forum Index, Oracle’s support didn’t start with its purchase of InnoDB, MySQL or Sun. The company has a history of supporting free and open source software and has done much for the FOSS community.

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Upcoming Topics on OTN’s TechCast

The lineup for the next three shows of Oracle Technology Network\’s TechCast are as follows:

• March 16: Roberto Chinnici, principal engineer, Java EE, will discuss Java EE 6.
• March 30: Wim Coekaerts, VP Linux and VM Development, will discuss Oracle VM and VirtualBox integration. A demonstration is expected to be presented.
• April 13: Steve Wilson, VP, Systems Management, will discuss Ops Center.

Tune in to The TechCast Show hosted by OTN Senior Director Justin Kestelyn at 10 a.m. Pacific Time on the dates listed above, and listen in live. Questions can also be posed via Twitter, Facebook, or the native chat offered.

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Work Still Needed to Interest Enterprises, But Potential is There

Oracle plans to make VirtualBox part of its enterprise virtualization portfolio, right alongside its server virtualization hypervisor Oracle VM, according to a SearchServerVirtualization.com article. Oracle aims to integrate Sun’s VirtualBox hypervisor (rebranded as Oracle VM VirtualBox) with Oracle VM, allowing administrators to use VirtualBox as a sandbox to create virtual desktops and deploy them to Oracle VM pools.

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Offers Details on the Virtualization Solution

Anyone interested in the Oracle VM may want to read Roddy Rodstein’s underground manual on Oracle’s server virtualization software. Broken down into seven topics, Rodstein, who is a member of the Virtualization and Linux team at Oracle, offers an introduction and architectural review, along with information on hard and soft partitioning, upgrading, OVS repository configurations, guest disk storage options, and manager command line interface.

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For Rapid Configuration and Deployment of Applications

Oracle VM Template Builder is an open source, graphical utility that makes it easy to use Oracle Enterprise Linux “Just enough OS” (JeOS)-based scripts for developing pre-packaged virtual machines for Oracle VM. End-users and ISVs have the option to either develop their Oracle VM Templates by using these JeOS-based scripts directly or via the graphical Oracle VM Template Builder.

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