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Solution: Oracle VM Manager Backup and Recovery – Availability Protection

August 3, 2016

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Oracle VM Manager is the centralized management and operations application for Oracle VM. Without Oracle VM Manager operations will quickly screech to a halt resulting in the loss of all management capabilities, and visibility for the Oracle VM Server Pools, Oracle VM servers, and virtual machines. ROAD™ for Oracle® VM delivers unparalleled availability protection for […]

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Scott Davis Joins Opvizor Advisory Board

May 4, 2016

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Opvizor is pleased to announce the addition of Scott Davis to their advisory board. Scott Davis is a well-known technologist, entrepreneur and CTO at venture-backed storage startup Infinio. Scott was formerly long-term CTO of VMware‘s End User Computing Business Unit, served as VMware’s Chief Data Center/Storage Architect and was also President/Co-Founder of Virtual Iron Software, […]

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ToutVirtual: Virtualization Management and Monitoring Podcast with Vipul Pabari – Episode 91

January 9, 2016

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In episode 91, Douglas Brown interviews Vipul Pabari is Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of ToutVirtual, Inc. Douglas and Vipul discuss the ToutVirtual VirtualIQ virtualization management and monitoring solution for VMware vSphere, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle VM, and physical environments. Vipul also explains what virtualization intelligence is, do we need it, an explanation of the […]

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Oracle VM Availability Protection with RPOs and RTOs of < 15 minutes

December 7, 2015

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Oracle VM Manager is the centralized management and operations center for Oracle VM. Without Oracle VM Manager operations will quickly screech to a halt, with no visibility and management capabilities for business critical Oracle workloads. Oracle VM Manager and the Oracle VM Manager CLI map and display the meta-data from all of the objects under […]

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ROAD for Oracle VM Product Launch in early-2016 – Revolutionize Oracle Virtualization for any Enterprise utilizing Oracle VM for x86

December 3, 2015

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I wanted to let you know about a new Product Launch we’ll have in early-2016. We expect this will revolutionize Oracle Virtualization for any Enterprise utilizing Oracle VM for x86. Now – only available to our subscribers – we’d like to offer you a chance to join an Exclusive Promotions list. Those that sign up on our list […]

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Oracle VM Virtual Machine CPU and Memory Allocation Policies Explained

August 11, 2015

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By Roddy Rodstein 08/11/2015 This post is applicable to all Oracle VM Releases Oracle VM Server (Xen) has virtual machine CPU and Memory allocation options that allow us to to allocate CPU priority and Memory ballooning. Essentially the Xen CPU and Memory allocation policies allow us to rob CPU and RAM from Peter (high […]

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Solution: Oracle Processor and Named User Plus (NUP) License Management

August 11, 2015

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By Roddy Rodstein 08/11/2015 This post is applicable to all Oracle Software Products and all Oracle VM Releases Since the first release of Oracle VM, which was announced at Oracle Open World in November 2007, Oracle has provided certified support for Oracle technology products on Oracle VM, including both hard and soft partitioning for Oracle license […]

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Solution: Oracle VM Server and Pool Capacity Planning

August 11, 2015

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By Roddy Rodstein 08/11/2015 This post is applicable to all Oracle VM 3 Releases When running mission critical Oracle applications on Oracle VM, you need to ensure that availability and performance is not inhibited by capacity limitations. When not sized properly, the capacity of your Oracle VM environment can negatively affect system availability, reliability […]

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Solution: Oracle VM Server and Server Pool Monitoring

August 11, 2015

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By Roddy Rodstein 08/11/2015 This post is applicable to all Oracle VM 3 Releases Managed by Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c When things go wrong within an Oracle VM server pool, being able to quickly determine the “root cause” of an issue can eliminate or reduce down time. The most effective way to identify problems […]

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Solution: How to Select an Oracle Enterprise Manager Agent Install User

August 11, 2015

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By Roddy Rodstein 05/03/2015 This post is applicable to Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. The Oracle Enterprise Manager Agent Install user is used to install the Oracle Management Agent (OMA) software, and then becomes the owner of the Oracle Management Agent home. Selecting the Manager Agent Install user requires careful consideration especially when multiple IT groups […]

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Oracle VM EMC PowerPath Tips and Tricks

August 11, 2015

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By Roddy Rodstein 02/20/2015 – Last Update Jul 27th 2015 This post is applicable to Oracle VM Release 3.3 EMC Resource: https://elabnavigator.emc.com/vault/pdf/OracleOVM_Support.pdf Oracle VM 3.3 EMC Powerpath Prerequisites & Installation Note: As of this writing, Powerpath version 6.0.0.00.00-158.OL6x86_64.rpm is the latest supported version for Oracle VM 3.3 1. Create a new /etc/multipath.conf file with a total of […]

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Linux Oracle Enterprise Manager Agent installation Prerequisites

August 11, 2015

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By Roddy Rodstein 08/07/2015 This post is applicable to all Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Releases The Oracle Management Agent (OMA) is a core Oracle Enterprise Manager component. The Oracle Management Agent can be installed on unmanaged Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SuSE Linux hosts to convert them to managed hosts that are […]

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Solution: Search and Install RPMs from the Oracle Public Yum Server

August 11, 2015

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By Roddy Rodstein 08/11/2015 This post is applicable to all of the Oracle Public Yum Server RPM repositories. In March 2012, Oracle announced that Oracle Linux and Oracle VM RPM patches, updates and erratas would be available at no cost from theOracle public yum server located at http://public-yum.oracle.com. Oracle‘s public yum server allows us to install PRM packages […]

Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0 Officialy Released!

July 9, 2015

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We are proud to announce the availability of: Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0. This release contains significant improvements, with a large number of enhancement and bug fixes. See the official Oracle announcement here. New data sheet with all features available on Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0 is already available here. I would like to highlight just a […]

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