Oracle VM

Designed for efficiency and optimized for performance, Oracle's server virtualization products support x86 and SPARC architectures and a variety of workloads such as Linux, Windows and Oracle Solaris. In addition to solutions that are hypervisor-based, Oracle also offers virtualization built in to hardware and Oracle operating systems to deliver the most complete and optimized solution for your entire computing environment.

• Announcement: Oracle VM 3.4 - Engineered for Open Cloud Infrastructure
  
• Announcement: Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.6

See also: Oracle VM Templates | Virtualization Topic | Cloud Topic | Oracle OpenStack | Oracle Private Cloud Appliance | Engineered Systems

Oracle VM Server for x86 Technical White Papers

• Oracle VM: Designing, Creating and Testing an Oracle VM 3 Environment (PDF)
• Oracle VM at Oracle - Powering a Demanding Enterprise Operation (PDF)
• Oracle VM - Built for Virtualizing Enterprise Applications (PDF)
• Optimizing Oracle VM Server for x86 Performance (PDF)
• Why Oracle VM is the Best Platform for Deploying Oracle Database (PDF)
• Oracle Real Application Clusters on Oracle VM Environments (PDF)
• Oracle VM 3: Migrate Virtual Machines from VMware to Oracle VM (PDF)
• Oracle VM 3: Using Oracle Clusterware to Protect Oracle VM Manager (PDF)
• Oracle VM 3 with Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance: Configuration Best Practices for Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Using NFS v4 Protocol (PDF)
• Oracle VM 3: Architecture and Technical Overview (PDF)
• Oracle VM 3: Backup and Recovery Best Practices Guide (PDF)
• Oracle VM 3: Storage Connect Overview (PDF)
• Oracle VM 3: Server Pool Deployment Planning Considerations for Scalability and Availability (PDF)
• Oracle VM 3: Getting Started With Disaster Recovery (PDF) 
• Oracle VM 3: Looking "Under the Hood" at Networking (HTML), Fundamental Concepts for VLAN Networks (HTML), and Network Naming (HTML)
• Oracle VM 3: 10GbE Network Performance Tuning (PDF)
• Oracle VM 3: Building a Demo Environment using Oracle VM VirtualBox (PDF)
• Hard Partitioning with Oracle VM Server for x86 (PDF)
• Creating and Using Oracle VM Templates: The Fastest Way to Deploy Any Enterprise Software (PDF)

Oracle VM Server for SPARC Technical White Papers

• Oracle VM Server for SPARC Best Practices (PDF)
• Oracle’s SPARC T7 and SPARC M7 Servers: Domaining Best Practices (PDF)
• Consolidation Using Oracle's SPARC Virtualization Technologies (PDF)
• How to Get the Best Performance from Oracle VM Server for SPARC (HTML, PDF)
• READ_ME_FIRST: What Do I Do with All of Those SPARC Threads? (PDF)
• Hard Partitioning with Oracle VM Server for SPARC (PDF)
• Increasing Application Availability by Using the Oracle VM Server for SPARC Live Migration Feature (PDF)
• How to Configure a Failover Guest Domain in an Oracle Solaris Cluster (HTML)
• Secure Deployment of Oracle VM Server for SPARC (PDF)
• Implementing Root Domains with Oracle VM Server for SPARC (PDF)
• Best Practices for Building a Virtualized SPARC Computing Environment (PDF)
• Oracle VM Server for SPARC: Enabling A Flexible, Efficient IT Infrastructure (PDF)
• Running Oracle Real Application Clusters on Oracle VM Server for SPARC (PDF)
• Increase Application Scalability and Improve System Utilization with Oracle VM Server for SPARC (PDF)
• Best Practices for Data Reliability with Oracle VM Server for SPARC (PDF)
• Best Practices for Network Availability with Oracle VM Server for SPARC (PDF)
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