It’s more than a year I have been using Oracle VM 2.2.0 for my personal use on intel x86. It’s a perfect solution for testing lab as well. Before using Oracle VM I had
to setup two Boxes with Lacie Storage connected with 2 Firewire cards just for testing the 2 node RAC Setup. It was a costly solution but still worked fine for me.
But I did not have option to test a DG on RAC or a node addition. Oracle VM has given solution of all these problems. You can add as many as machines as your hardware can scale. My motherboard supports 8 GB ram which is sufficient at-least for 4/5 machines (or based on your configuration).Performance is much better than VMware running on your desktop. Along with solution of your lab it gives you exposure of a world-class product which you can expect soon to capture market in Oracle world.
Oracle VM should be installed on bare-metal, below screen-shot tells about the VMs I have configured to play with RAC, DG, Grid 10 & 11i Apps. It does not require any
extra shared drive. It uses OCFS and can be utilized as shared storage between VMs.
I usually configure VNC to get full resolution but VM also has console option
My ISP provides public IP which I have configured to access Oracle VM over internet. Now, on the move I can access all my machines without any problem.
In short – I carry all my set-up with me all the time. Even I can manage VMs through my Iphone using GPRS/Edge
Hello Sir
nice article .. even i am using Oracle VM and really happy with its performance.
Devender
Comment by Devender Narula — January 3, 2011 @ 12:38 am
Thanks Dev.
Comment by Jagjeet Singh — January 16, 2011 @ 7:59 pm
I also use Oracle VM. Earlier it used to be called Sun Virtual Box http://virtualbox.org – OPEN Source and FREE.
On top of that I installed Ubuntu linux and Oracle 10gR2.
Excellent and Risk Free setup for a crash and burn system, right at your fingertips
THanks for sharing.
Comment by Anand — February 11, 2011 @ 7:19 pm
Hi Anand-
Here I am talking about Oracle VM Solution which is different than oracle Virtual Box.
Comment by Jagjeet Singh — February 12, 2011 @ 4:41 pm
Cool stuff. So you installed Oracle VM on your bare metal desktop and then further adding Virtual Machines as per your requirement. And managing this whole stuff from your laptop ?
Comment by Amardeep Sidhu — May 13, 2012 @ 5:48 pm
Hi Amardeep-
yes, that’s correct. however I have switched now ESXi 5.0 now
Comment by Jagjeet Singh — May 13, 2012 @ 6:46 pm
Ohkie. The idea is really great but it will make the system totally bounded to all this. It no more can be used as a normal Desktop.
Comment by Amardeep Sidhu — May 13, 2012 @ 6:48 pm
Hi Amardeep – I did not see this comment eariler. you can install OVM on USB, and it is going to be dual boot. So as long as you have a separate harddisk, should not be an issue
Comment by Jagjeet Singh — November 28, 2012 @ 11:47 pm