Oracle Unveils Oracle VM 3.0

Oracle announced Oracle VM 3.0, the latest release of Oracle’s server virtualisation and management solution. Oracle VM 3.0 is suitable for all datacentre workloads and features new policy-based management capabilities, advanced storage management via the Oracle VM Storage Connect plug-in API; centralised network configuration management, improved ease-of-use and Open Virtualization Format support. With the centralisation of storage management alongside of logical network configuration and management, 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. Oracle VM Manager 3.0 leverages Oracle Application Development Framework and Oracle WebLogic Server 11g, to simplify administrative operations via a Web-browser based user interface that does not require any proprietary client-based software. “Oracle VM 3.0’s application-driven approach to virtualisation 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.”