Oracle VM 3 Cloud Implementation and Administration Guide, 2nd Edition

Introduction

In the last decade, we have seen virtualization evolve from the standard way of doing business in the data center to a new model called the cloud, where resources are dynamically allocated and managed by the developers, users, and application managers. Cloud technology has changed how data centers are built and managed, as users can now directly provision not only virtual machines but entire applications via a few mouse clicks. The basis of this in an Oracle technology stack is Oracle VM, which is based on the Xen hypervisor. Oracle VM was introduced at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in 2007, and after Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems ...