Deployments Using Oracle VM for X86

Oracle VM is Oracle's x86 cloud computing and server virtualization solution that offers comprehensive virtual machine and application deployment options. Oracle is the only vendor in the entire x86 virtualization market that offers pre-packaged virtual machine templates with production ready Oracle applications on a production ready operating system.

It allows you to eliminate the time-consuming processes of installing, configuring and deploying software and applications, manually. Deployment of applications in virtualized environments also provides additional benefits of consolidation, flexibility and cloud computing.

Oracle VM provides five unique options for accelerating application deployments:


1. Virtual Machine Cloning 
2. VM Templates 
3. VM Template Builder 
4. Virtual Assembly Builder 
5. JRockit Virtual Edition

Virtual Machine Cloning 

Oracle VM Manager offers virtual machine cloning as an image management feature. A virtual machine saved as a clone or a template, can be redeployed rapidly as an unique new virtual machine or as a copy of the original virtual machine, unlimited number of times, thus eliminating the entire time-consuming process of operating system installation and configuration. The VM manager saves virtual machine clones and templates as sparse images. The sparse clones eliminate additional time consumed to save disk space while creating clones, by allocating storage only when needed.

VM Templates 

Oracle VM Template program, offers self-contained and preconfigured virtual machines using Linux with key Oracle technologies. Once downloaded from the Linux eDelivery portal, these templates can be redeployed unlimited number of times as new virtual machines. The VM templates, reduce the application deployment timelines, by replacing the time-consuming process of installing operating systems and other technologies. The prepackaged Oracle technologies in the templates range from stand-alone operating systems to virtualization and management solutions, including database & real application clusters (RAC), middleware, etc.

VM Template Builder 

The VM Template builder is a free open source product that is a value add to Oracle VM for x86. It allows you to generate preconfigured VM template using JeOS (just enough operating system) with Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Applications can be preconfigured in VM templates using the VM template builder. These templates can be redeployed rapidly, multiple number of times, thus shortening the application deployments. These templates contain configurable initial boot-time metadata to ensure that all templates have unique configurations for the prepackaged applications.

Virtual Assembly Builder 

The Virtual Assembly Builder enables profiling physical or virtual multi-tier Oracle Fusion Middleware reference environments into VM template assemblies. Each collection of VM templates are called assemblies and contain preconfigured JeOS virtual machines. These templates are designed to be configured at the initial boot time, thus allowing each assembly to have unique operating system and application configurations respectively.

JRockit Virtual Edition 

Oracle JRockit Virtual Edition is the "ultimate" virtual appliance product that contains a fully featured WebLogic Server 11g environment that runs directly on the VM hypervisor without an OS. It enables rapid deployment of mission critical Java applications with enhanced density, performance and ease of management. The JRockit eliminates the requirement for an operating system thereby saving system resources as well as costs to install and support it. Without an operating system, the WebLogic server on JRockit Virtual Edition offers increased performance of Java applications by up to 30% and decrease the size of footprints by up to 500 times, compared to the deployments using a traditional operating system.