Oracle to ship Oracle VM 3.0 by May 2010, while Oracle VM 2.2 by end 2009!
By Tarry Singh at 21 July, 2009, 5:22 pm
All the more reason to already start working on the 2nd version, maybe an advanced version of the recently published book, I guess.
What will Oracle VM 3.0 have?
- Capacity Management
- Scripted APIs
- ADF enabled powerful WebUI (I guess with more advancements) – I was personally impressed with the Current Oracle VM 2.x Manager already – as you can see in my book
- Power Management
While Oracle 2.2 will have the following:
- CPU optimization technologies (from VI acquisition)
- Import tool to VI VHD
- Newer version of OCFS2
nd to do that, Oracle has to graft some features to help VI shops prepare for a converged product onto the Oracle VM 2.2 release that’s in testing now and due for release soon. Then it will focus on getting Oracle VM 3.0 out the door some time during its fiscal 2010, which ends next May.
“From a development point of view, we wanted to ensure that we could combine the two quickly,” explained Coekaerts. “If we continued to enhance a separate product, we would not have the time to do the integration.”
The pieces of the VI tools that Coekaerts singled out to be used in the future converged Oracle VM 3.0 product include the capacity-management and power-management features that Oracle VM currently does not have and that allow for processors and servers to be powered down when workloads don’t need them, as well as an open, scriptable API and a Java-based, web-enabled management interface that’s easy to use.
What Oracle is bringing to the table is a Xen hypervisor that has been tweaked to encrypt data in memory relating to VMs as they move around the network, and that knows about clustered file systems and high-availability failover right out of the box.
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