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Contents

Introduction............................................................................................................................................. 2
Downloading Oracle VM 3.4.................................................................................................................... 2
Installation of Oracle VM 3.2 Server ....................................................................................................... 5
Network Setup......................................................................................................................................... 8
Installation of Oracle VM Manager 3.2 ................................................................................................. 15
Storage Connection and Attachment Tips ............................................................................................ 19
Links ....................................................................................................................................................... 20

Introduction

Bare minimum screenshots are used, that means just the required screenshot was taken to
keep the article short
Step by step installation process to install VMware Oracle VM 3.2 Server/Hypervisor on
Oracle Virtual Box 5 (Oracle VM 3.4 is the latest)
You need to have a minimum of 10 GB RAM, 50 to 100 GB disk space, 4 or more CPUs of a
minimum speed of 2 Ghz to play around (Installing Oracle VM Server and creating 2 or 3
Servers only)
Note: Even with a memory of 2 GB plus you can install Oracle VM 3.2 Server, but you cant
install virtual machines on top of Oracle VM Server
Note: Oracle VM Manager needs some more memory. The recommended is some 5 plus Gb
RAM, which installs MySQL database, Weblogic etc.
This Hypervisor is actually a bare metal installation. In case you do not have separate
dedicated machine, and want to explore then follow the steps (install Oracle Virtual Box on
your PC)
This article uses the Oracle Virtual Box Network for assigning Static IP and playing around to
get an overview of Oracle VM Server and Oracle VM Manger environment

Downloading Oracle VM 3.4

Downloading the Oracle VM 3 related products on Oracle. In this case the Oracle VM 3.4 is
shown below

You can safely ignore Agent for SPARC, but you can install it
Note: During the download, the Oracle VM Server ISO will be downloaded with Vxxxxx, which
can cause confusion which is what. So, do have a check on this. In my case I simply added
OracleVM-3.4-Server to the end of the ISO for clarity, as, Vxxxx-OracleVMServer-3.4 and
saved the ISO

The Drivers for Windows is to not 3.4. It says we got to install a patch (see the following
screenshot)

On the Oracle Website you can do cross check for the latest version, release and update
(Click on OTN and navigate)

Screenshot for Windows Drivers. If you do not have a MOS account, you cant download it

Installation of Oracle VM 3.2 Server


Note: At the time of writing this article I have Oracle VM3.2 downloaded already, and I did
not download the 3.4 (Its not bad to check both releases)

Creating a virtual machine on Virtual box, below are the settings performed by me

Creating some test virtual machines on top of Oracle VM Server requires some good amount
of memory
In my case 10 GB RAM was allocated (Note: Even with a memory of 2 GB plus you can install,
but you cant install virtual machines on top of Oracle VM Server)

Leave the default size, as it is of type Dynamically allocated (Note: you will get error if you
allocate less disk space because Swap size etc. will be allocated by Installer)

It is optional, but do allocate enough graphic memory, say between 16 32 MB Memory


This is an Oracle VM 3.2 ISO

Network Setup

The next one is the network card / adapter setting


Expand Advanced and select as below
The default will be a Desktop type, and selecting a network card of Server (T Server) avoids
a warning during installation

Save all the above settings by clicking on OK and Start the VM on Oracle Virtual Box

Press Enter key to start the installation

Do not forget to click on skip. If you press OK it will take more time

This disk does not have any previous data, so it is safe to select remove all partitions etc.
We allocated 8 GB hard disk so it is completely allocated to Oracle VM Server / Hypervisor

Just press TAB key and press OK

Note: This is my second Oracle VM 3.2 Server so I assigned 192.168.56.102


The previous one was with a 192.168.56.101 IP address

In my case, this time zone was selected as shown above

Type the password and press the TAB key to jump to the second row
Note: That was for the Oracle VM Agent. Because this is a test system, you can assign the
same password to the Agent and Root. Below is the Root password

Press ALT+F2 key to get the CLI Interface

Enter the root password to login. You can verify what was installed

You can use the INIT 0command to shut down the VM Server

Installation of Oracle VM Manager 3.2

Oracle VM Manager is installed on an OS and it is supported, as of release 3.2, only on Linux


derivatives
In my case I used the Oracle 6.4 and there were some packages installed that upgraded to
6.5, those normally used for an Oracle database installation
On the below links you can see what packages were installed

https://oracle-base.com/articles/11g/oracle-db-11gr2-installation-on-oracle-linux-6
https://oracle-base.com/articles/linux/oracle-linux-6-installation

Attach the ISO disk to the OS and navigate to media or CDROM that you have set up for
mounting Media devices. In my case it was a default directory

The document says to run the runinstaller.sh to install Oracle VM Manager, which throws
an error actually
Do not run the runinstaller.sh, but run the createOracle.sh first which will set up the
environment for Oracle VM Manager.

Check the limits.conf to be confirmed

Now run the runinstaller.sh file


With select 1 we get the MySQL Database installed and configured, and it is confirmed that
it can be used for production environment too !

The password should be:

For example: Password12


Thats all you need to do. Installation begins and ends with installation summary, as shown
below

Open a Web browser and Log in

Right click on Server Pools for faster access

Storage Connection and Attachment Tips


Some of the points to be noted before creating virtual machines, as we are ready to explore the
Oracle VM environment :
1. This article is only about the installation, but we got to know how to attach disks to this Oracle VM
server or external storage server to store virtual machines
2. There are several ways and methods to attach storage, but the important thing is Oracle VM server
should make those disks available to us all the time as long as it is running or after a restart
3. I wrote another article on "Openfiler ", which can be considered as storage server for exploring
ESXi if you prefer to make use of storage server for your practise
4. If 'Openfiler' is not used then the Oracle Virtual Box should used to create disks and attach those
disks to the Oracle VM server (There exists the option to assign a new disk controller for SCSI, iSCSi
too), but the initial testing should be to check those attached disks are available even after a reboot
of Oracle VM server

5. Many experts had indeed provided articles about UDEV rules etc for such issues, one of the link
from an Oracle expert is noteworthy
https://oracle-base.com/articles/linux/udev-scsi-rules-configuration-in-oracle-linux
Also see the section "Create Shared Disks" on the below link
https://oracle-base.com/articles/11g/oracle-db-11gr2-rac-installation-on-oracle-linux-6-usingvirtualbox#create_shared_disks

Links
https://oracle-base.com/articles/11g/oracle-db-11gr2-installation-on-oracle-linux-6
https://oracle-base.com/articles/linux/oracle-linux-6-installation
Oracle VM 3.2 Documentation
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E35328_01/
Note: Oracle 3.4 documentation is not completely similar to 3.2. You got to refer Oracle 3.4 VM
documentation if you work with 3.4
Below is Oracle 3.4 VM documentation:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E64076_01/

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