Oracle Unveils Oracle VM 3.0

Oracle announced Oracle VM 3.0, the latest release of Oracle’s server virtualisation and management solution. Oracle VM 3.0 is suitable for all datacentre workloads and features new policy-based management capabilities, advanced storage management via the Oracle VM Storage Connect plug-in API; centralised network configuration management, improved ease-of-use and Open Virtualization Format (OVF) support.

With the centralisation of storage management alongside of logical network configuration and management, Oracle VM 3.0 allows administrators to streamline and automate end-to-end virtual machine provisioning for a significant reduction in time and overhead, simplifying IT processes and helping to reduce costs. It also helps customers deploy enterprise software in a rapid, repeatable and error-free manner with immediate availability of over 90 Oracle VM Templates for Oracle applications, middleware and databases.

Oracle VM 3.0 supports up to 128 virtual CPUs per virtual machine, at a fraction of the cost. Oracle VM 3.0 demonstrated support for up to 160 physical CPUs and 2TB memory using Oracle’s Sun Fire X4800 M2 servers.

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Oracle VM 3.0 is engineered for use with Oracle software and hardware, enabling improved performance, faster application deployment, and improved manageability for Oracle software. Oracle VM Manager 3.0 leverages Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) and Oracle WebLogic Server 11g, to simplify administrative operations via a Web-browser based user interface that does not require any proprietary client-based software.

In addition to Oracle VM Templates, Oracle VM 3.0 supports the deployment of virtual assemblies as pre-packaged, pre-configured collections of virtual machines containing entire multi-tier applications and related management policies to facilitate intelligent provisioning and operation in virtualised and cloud environments.

“Customers want to accomplish more with virtualisation than just traditional server consolidation. They need virtualisation solutions that can help them deploy, manage and optimise the full application ‘stack’ rather than just the servers alone,” said Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president of Oracle Linux and Virtualization. “Oracle VM 3.0’s application-driven approach to virtualisation makes management of the hardware-software stack easier by enabling customers to deploy, manage and scale applications and resources more dynamically, increasing their operating efficiencies and lowering costs.”