In our last chapter we saw the Oracle VM Manager management. Here we will do some detailed installation, importing and all Virtual Machine activities. This chapter is a part of the three chapters where we talk about virtual machines within the Oracle VM environment.
In this chapter, we will be discussing the following:
Oracle VM management with VM Manager
Overview of VMs and lifecycle management
General VM management tasks such as starting, shutdown, delete, re-provision, and edit configuration of the VMs
We will explore through suspending and resuming the VM in this chapter and then continue with the rest in the upcoming chapters.
Clearly Oracle is slowly and gradually working towards the commoditization path of Virtual Infrastructure with Xen, where features such as HA, on-demand usage, and real-time Smart Metering make perfect sense for a Cloud computing model.
Managing and provisioning Virtual Machines or Workloads within an...