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Oracle VM Manager 2.1.2

By : Tarry Singh
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Oracle VM Manager 2.1.2

By: Tarry Singh

Overview of this book

Virtualization is taking the technology world by storm and dramatically helping organizations save money. Oracle VM is free and forked from the open source Xen hypervisor, which brings down your upfront costs for an agile data center. The robust capabilities and easy-to-use web interface of Oracle VM Manager helps administrators manage their Internal Data Center from anywhere in the world, helping us come closer to ubiquitous computing. This practical book will give you hands-on experience on how to manage your Virtual Machines using Oracle VM Manager. Equipped with step-by-step installation and management information you will not only learn to manage your Virtual Data Center but also will include this guide among the books you consider most essential. This book will take you into the various methods of importing Virtual Machines. You will learn to import VMs through HTTP/FTP, Repository servers, and even import other VM formats such as VMware VMs. You will also learn about the Xen utilities such as xm, xentop, and virsh. You will learn to manage your VMs through the simple and intuitive web interface of Oracle VM Manager. No matter how compact it may seem, this book covers all the essentials while keeping your learning experience to the point. The book has been deliberately written in a conversational manner so that you feel at home while learning Oracle VM Manager.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Oracle VM Manager 2.1.2
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface

Copying Virtual Machines


Oracle VM Manager enables you to make copies of VMs based on existing working VMs. This can be done by either deploying a VM, cloning them outright, or saving a VM as a template.

Deploying a Virtual Machine

By deploying a Virtual Machine, you essentially clone a new VM to a specific server pool—that could be public and may be accessible to a larger group or you can choose to keep it private. The original VM remains in its original pool while the copy goes to its new pool. Let's have a look at how it works:

  1. 1. We take XP64Bit machine and click on Deploy, from the dropdown menu, and then click on Go.

  2. 2. We name it as temp for the sake of testing, and change the Group Name to Public Group and then click on Next, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. 3. Click on Confirm to make the changes effective:

  4. 4. Your VM will now be copied and deployed. As you can clearly see in the following screenshot the XP64bit is Deploying while the temp is being Created:

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    The machine...