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 OVM for SPARC: Oracle VM Manager
Integration
Instructors Name
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 Module Objectives
• Oracle VM Manager Introduction
– What is Oracle VM Manager
– Oracle VM Manager Deployment
– Oracle VM Manager Inside
• Manage OVM SPARC Server with OVM Manager
– Integration with OVM Manager
– Management Capabilities

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OVM Manager Introduction

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 What is Oracle VM Manager
• OVM Manager is the management tool for Oracle VM family
– Define common management concept across two hypervisors
• Oracle VM Server for x86
• Oracle VM Server for SPARC
– Provide centralized management services
• Standard-based management interface
– Browser-based UI
– SSH-based CLI
• Implement most hypervisor management functions
– Do not need to leave OVM Manager

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 Oracle VM Manager Functions
• Server & Server Pool Management
– Discover OVM Server
– Network & Storage Management
– Group Servers as Server Pool
• Resource Management
– Import Template & Assembly
– Import ISO file
– Create Virtual Disk
• Virtual Machine Management
– Create Virtual Machine
– Configure Virtual Machine
– Clone, Save as Template, Migrate and Delete

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 Oracle VM Manager Functions
• Policy-based Service Automation
– Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
• Load Balancing Guest VMs workload in Server Pool
– Distributed Power Management (DPM)
• Power off Idle machines in Server Pool
– Anti-Affinity Group
• Isolated Guest VMs within the Server Pool

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 Deployment:

Oracle VM Manager

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 Components of OVM Manager
• Management Server
Oracle VM Manager
– Run web accessible interface
• Management BUI
Management Server
• WS-Based Remote Management API
• OVM Manager CLI Oracle VM
Web Interface

– Run server pool management Manager Repository

Server Pool Management
• OVM Server monitoring
• Policy-based service automation engine
– Use Oracle WebLogic 11g Server
• Oracle VM Manager Repository
– Store configuration data for server pools
• Managed Objects
• Server Pool Configuration and Policy
• Event and Job
– Use Oracle DB 11g or MySQL DB 5.5

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 Oracle VM Manager Deployment Options
Simple Install Custom Install

• WebLogic 11g • WebLogic 11g

• Oracle VM Manager • Oracle VM
• MySQL DB 5.5 Manager

• Oracle Database SE, EE

• MySQL DB 5.5

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 OVM Manager supporting platform
• OVM Manager is an application and require an existing OS
• Current release only supports Linux platform
– Oracle Linux 5/6
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6
• Future Solaris SPARC will be another supported OS
• The OS can be virtualized

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OVM Manager Inside

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 OVM Manager UI

Task Tabs: Perspective Pane:

• Categorized by tasks • Show detailed
‒ Server information of a
‒ Repository managed objects in
‒ Network / Storage the navigation tree
‒ Tools • Organized by
‒ Job perspectives
• Easier to navigate

Navigation Pane: Job Pane:

• Managed Objects • List interactive jobs
list and related of current session
actions toolbar • Ordered by start
• Toolbar are context time
sensitive • Job history can be
seen by clicking
“Jobs” in tasks tab.

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 Managed Objects
• Object Types
– Server & Server Pool Related Objects
• Server Pool
• Server
• Physical Network (Port, Bond, VLAN …)
• Physical Storage (NFS Server, SAN Storage …)
– Resource Related Objects
• Repository
• Assembly
• ISO Image
• Virtual Disk
– Guest VM Related Objects
• Virtual Machine
• Virtual NIC & Virtual Disk Mapping

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 Managed Objects (Continued)
• Object Identification
– Internal
• Unique UUID
– Display
• Human Readable Display Name
• Duplicate display name is allowed
• Object Storage
– OVM Manager Repository
• Store an entry for each managed object
– Where managed objects should be
• OVM Repository
• OVM Server
– Easy to rediscover managed objects

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 Job
• Definition
– Group of operations on
managed objects
• Operations are atomic

• Job can be created by

– Manager UI actions
– Server pool policy
– Scheduling
• Job Status
– Pending
– In Process
– Aborted
– Succeed
– Failed
• Running job sometimes
will lock objects
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 Event
• Definition
– Event is the result of
monitoring on specified
objects
• OVM Server
• Guest VM
• Storage Device
• …
• Event Severity
– Critical
– Warning
– Informational
– Minor
• Acknowledge Event
– Check and clear object’s
error status

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Integration with OVM Manager

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 Oracle VM Integration Model
• OVM Agent Service enables the
OVM Manager
integration with OVM Manager
– As additional service in control domain
– Contact point for OVM Manager to Control Domain Guest Domain Guest Domain
manage everything on the OVM Server Solaris Solaris Solaris
• Through a XML-RPC interface OVM Agent Agent Agent
Agent
• Management command are common to
both OVM for SPARC and OVM for x86 LDM
– Implement the OVM Agent framework
• Will wrap local management capabilities
– Monitor OVM Server and report result to
the platform Hypervisor

SPARC Server

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 Prepare Control Domain for Integration
• Install OVM Agent for SPARC on Control Domain
– Where can get OVM for SPARC
• Release with OVM Manager since 3.2
• Download from http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux
– OVM Agent for SPARC release format
• OVM agent for SPARC is release as IPS package
• Require Control Domain running Solaris 11.1
– During the installation
• Must provide the OVM agent password
• Will check VCC service configuration in the control domain

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 Server Discovery
Definition
• Goal
– Discover: Find new OVM Servers
– Rediscover: Find changes on existing OVM Servers
• Manually at anytime when OVM Server is running Oracle VM Oracle VM

Manager Servers
• Automatically when OVM Server is restarted
• Roles in Discovery
– OVM Manager
• Control discovery process
• Send commands to OVM Agent process running on OVM Server
– OVM Server
• Implement OVM Agent Framework
• Execute commands to discover resources or configuration on OVM Server

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 Server Discovery
OVM Manager UI
• Use OVM Manager to discover
• Registers servers with the
Manager
• Specify a specific IP address or
a range of IP addresses
• Enter the Oracle VM Agent
Password
– Easier if all servers share the same
password

• OVM Manager will create a job for each server being discovered
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Management Capabilities

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 Management Features
• Most of the management operations can be supported
in OVM Manager
• Configuration Limitations
– Control Domain will be the only service domain
• Single VDS component as primary-vds0
– I/O Domain is not supported
• Can not use physical I/O feature
• In favor of live migration in OVM Manager

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 What is new in Storage Management
• Storage Connect Framework
– A extensible framework let OVM Manager manage storage
devices directly inside OVM Manager
• Storage Objects
– Repository
• A central place store the virtual resources used by guest domain
– Templates
– ISOs
– Virtual disk files

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 Storage Connect Framework
Server
Pool
Create LUN

Storage Connect Plug-In Framework & API

Oracle Plug-In Partner Plug-In
Oracle VM Manager

Sun Storage Partner Storage

CLONE VM Storage Repositories

Storage Connect Plug-Ins … OCFS2 Plug-In

_INSTANT_CLONE
• Any storage is connected through a plug-in
• Open Storage Administrator Capabilities to OVM Manager

…
– Creation and expanding of LUNs and File Systems OCFS2 File System
– Access Control
JBOD
– Thin provisioning, Cloning…

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 Storage Connect Plug-in
• Written in Python
– Interface for two categories of storage devices
• Storage Array - IStorageArrayPlugin
• File System - IFilesystemPlugin
– Methods
• Storage Capabilities
• Storage Operations
– Interface are Open for any storage vendor to implement
• Oracle
– Generic, Oracle-Specific
• Non-Oracle
– Vendor-Specific

• Not only for Oracle VM Manager

– Also used by Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c

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 Oracle VM Storage Management Mode
Unmanaged Managed
Storage Connect Not use Storage Connect Plug-in Use Storage Connect Plug-in
Requirement on Configure Storage Stack Configure Storage Stack
OVM Server Install Storage Connect Plug-in
Requirement on Direct Attached Block Device IP-Accessible Management Component on Storage Device
Storage Device • Can be Local Disk, JBOD or SAN • Only for Storage Arrays and File Servers

Storage Separated Storage Management Centralized Storage Management

Management • Storage connection & discovery in OVM Server • Storage connection & discovery in OVM Manager
• Provision Storage Elements through OVM Manager • Provision Storage Elements in OVM Manager
• Future storage requests goes to Storage Administrator • Future storage requests can be submitted via OVM Manager

Managed Objects Only storage elements already presented to OVM Server Real Storage Devices
• Physical Disks • Permissions
– Access Group
• Storage Elements
– Discover
– Create / Destroy
– Resize
• More Storage Management Capabilities
– Snapshot / Clone
– Replication / Backup

Action Result Actions affect only Dom0 of OVM Server Actions affect both Dom0 and devices (Be Careful)

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 OVM Repository
• OVM Repository is organized as a file system
– Standard Directory Architecture
• Assemblies - Virtual Assembly Archives
• ISOs - ISO Image Files
• Templates -Template Definitions
• VirtualDisks - Shared / Non-Shared Virtual Disks for VM & Template
• VirtualMachines - Virtual Machine Definitions
• Only NFS Server can be used to create OVM Repository in OVM
SPARC

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 Difference when using Storage Repository
• Domain metadata is stored in repository instead of OVM
SPAR C Server
– Domain will be created on the server on the fly when domain is started
• Name of the domain is the identifier (UUID) of the object in the OVM Manager
– Domain will be removed from the server when it is stopped

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 Server Pool Concept
• Server Pool
– Logical group of one or more OVM Servers
– Share the responsibility of managing a group of VMs
• Provide pooling resource for guest VMs
• OVM Server must be a member of a server pool before hosting any guest VM

• Benefits of Server Pool

– Best match workload with resource
• Guest VMs can be assigned or migrated to the OVM Server with proper resource
– Business continuity
• Protect guest VMs from possible planned or unplanned events
– Service Automation
• Manage resource usage of OVM Servers automatically by server pool policy

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 Server Pool by hypervisor
• Two hypervisors support
– New from Oracle VM 3.2
– Manage following hypervisors through single OVM Manager
• Oracle VM Server for x86
• Oracle VM Server for SPARC

• Server Pool by hypervisor

– Can not mix hypervisor in a Server Pool
– Can not migrate VM cross different hypervisor

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 Server Pool Types in Oracle VM
• Clustered Server Pool
– Configured with clustering mechanism among OVM Servers
• Can detect error conditions in different level
• Guest VMs can be restarted automatically when any error occurs
– Server Pool File System is required
• Need underlying OCFS2 Cluster Stack for cluster management
– Only support Oracle VM Server for x86
• OCFS2 is not and will not ported to Solaris

• Non-Clustered Server Pool

– OVM Servers work separately
• No error detection, no VM Auto-Restart
– Server Pool File System is not required
• In fact, OCFS2 File System can not be configured in non-clustered server pool

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 Parameters to create a Server Pool
• Server Pool Virtual IP • Hypervisor Type
– Will be used for Master – Choose between Oracle
Server VM Server for x86 (Xen)
and Oracle VM Server for
• VM Console Keymap
SPARC
– Default keyboard type
to access guest VM • Activate Cluster
console – Create a clustered or
non-clustered server pool
• VM Start Policy
– Can not change later
– Control how to assign
OVM Server to run a • Timeout for Cluster
guest VM – Customize OCFS2
– Could be best server or heartbeat timeout
pre-assigned server – Can not change later
• Secure VM Migration • Storage Element for
– Configure to use SSL SPFS
for live migration traffic
– Required for a clustered
or not
server pool

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 Master Server in Server Pool
• Master Server will run Virtual IP of the Server Pool
– Create a NIC using management network - “bond0:0”
• Master Server is contact point for OVM Manager after a
server pool is created
– OVM Manager will send command to virtual IP running on the master
server with the parameter of target OVM Server
– Master Server then forwards the command to target OVM Server and
send back result to OVM Manager

• Master Server is required for both clustered and non-

clustered server pool
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 Master Server in Server Pool
• Master Server has the responsibility for starting guest VMs
– Find proper OVM Server in the server pool to run the guest VM
• Will enforce anti-affinity policy defined for the server pool
• Will enforce VM start policy of the server pool
• Try load balance guest VMs among the server pool

• Master Server plays significant role in Oracle VM HA

– Monitor running guest VMs and restart failed guest VM
• Use the same algorithm as starting a new guest VM

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