Book Image

Oracle VM Manager 2.1.2

By : Tarry Singh
Book Image

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

Installing from a NFS image


Repeat the first two steps that we saw in the previous section.

  1. 1. For NFS installation, once the selection options come up, select NFS image and click OK:

  2. 2. Next, we need to configure the IP address. We choose IPv4 and assign the IP address and hostname manually:

  3. 3. Click OK to move forward and type in the IPv4 address, Gateway, and the Name Server respectively:

  4. 4. We will call our NFS server NFSCloudStorage.com. Obviously for your installation you will reference your own NFS server and Oracle VM Repository:

After this screen we will be presented with the partitioning screen and then we can continue the installation of the Oracle VM Server.