
Explore how Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager provides a web-based, open source platform to deploy and manage Linux KVM hosts and virtual machines, covering architecture and data warehouse concepts.
Learn how to implement network architecture on OCI by configuring a virtual cloud network with subnets, route tables, and security lists for Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager.
Create a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using a custom image, assign compartment and availability domain, and configure a 2-core, 32 GB VM on public subnet.
Connect to the config node via RDP using the public IP and OPC user; access the C drive to find the Oracle Linux 8 image and setup files.
Learn to prepare and configure an Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager engine node by creating a VM, selecting images, configuring VNIC, attaching SSH keys, and setting boot volume for pre-installation tasks.
Configure a lab machine, enable the required repositories and dependencies, and install Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager 4.4 using the orbit engine, with post-installation verification.
Configure the orbit engine on the host via a Windows-to-Linux setup, including firewall, data warehouse, Postgres, and DNS configuration, then access it in a browser.
Download and install the engine CA certificate in your browser to enable access to the engine console, choosing local machine import for all users.
Log in to the Oracle virtualization manager console using admin credentials, then use the hamburger menu to access compute, storage, network, and administrative tasks while monitoring CPU, memory, storage.
Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager is a proprietary server virtualization management platform that can be easily deployed to configure, monitor, and manage an Oracle Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) environment with enterprise-grade performance and support from Oracle. Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager Release 4.5 is based on oVirt, which is a free, open-source virtualization solution. To deploy Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, you install and configure the engine on a host with Oracle Linux 8.8 (or later Oracle Linux 8 release), configure KVM hosts, storage, and networks, and create virtual machines.
In Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, a self-hosted engine is a virtualized environment where the engine runs inside a virtual machine on the hosts in the environment. The virtual machine for the engine is created as part of the host configuration process. And, the engine is installed and configured in parallel to the host configuration.
Since the engine runs as a virtual machine and not on physical hardware, a self-hosted engine requires less physical resources. Additionally, since the engine is configured to be highly available, if the host running the Engine virtual machine goes into maintenance mode or fails unexpectedly the virtual machine is migrated automatically to another host in the environment. A minimum of two KVM hosts are required.