Oracle unveils new server virtualization solution

REDWOOD SHORES, USA: Software vendor Oracle announced Oracle VM 3.0, the latest release of Oracle's server virtualization and management solution.

Oracle says that the new VM 3.0 is suitable for all data centre workloads and features new policy-based management capabilities, advanced storage management via the Oracle VM Storage Connect plug-in API; centralized network configuration management, improved ease-of-use and Open Virtualization Format (OVF) support.

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Oracle VM 3.0 allows administrators to streamline and automate end-to-end virtual machine provisioning for a significant reduction in time and overhead, simplifying IT processes and helping to reduce costs, says the company in a release.

Oracle VM 3.0 helps customers deploy enterprise software with immediate availability of over 90 Oracle VM Templates for Oracle applications, middleware and databases.

Oracle VM 3.0 is four times more scalable than the latest VMware offering, supporting up to 128 virtual CPUs per virtual machine, at a fraction of the cost, claims the company.

Oracle VM 3.0 supports up to 160 physical CPUs and 2TB memory using Oracle's Sun Fire X4800 M2 servers.

When compared to VMware vSphere5 running Red Hat Enterprise Linux guest VMs, Oracle VM 3.0 running Oracle Linux guest VMs is four times less expensive, further claims Oracle.

Oracle VM Manager 3.0 leverages Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) and Oracle WebLogic Server 11g.

"Customers want to accomplish more with virtualization than just traditional server consolidation. They need virtualization solutions that can help them deploy, manage and optimize the full application 'stack' rather than just the servers alone," said Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president of Oracle Linux and Virtualization. "Oracle VM 3.0's application-driven approach to virtualization makes management of the hardware-software stack easier by enabling customers to deploy, manage and scale applications and resources more dynamically, increasing their operating efficiencies and lowering costs."