Speaker
Carlos Garcia Fernandez
(CERN)
Description
With the growing number of Oracle database instances and Oracle application servers, and the need to control the necessary resources in terms of manpower, electricity and cooling, virtualisation is a strategic direction that is being seriously considered at CERN for databases and application servers.
Oracle VM is the Oracle certified and supported server virtualisation solution for x86/x86_64 platforms.
In order to be able to use Oracle VM in large scale environments, it must be prepared so that it can be installed and configured in a very short time and without any human interaction as well as maintained in a central way. At CERN, this is done with the CERN ELFms (Extremely Large Fabric management system).
This presentation will explain the steps and work done to install and maintain 2 versions of Oracle VM: 2.1.5 and 2.2. The presentation will also cover the tests of Databases and Application servers running in this virtual environment.
Author
Carlos Garcia Fernandez
(CERN)
