On Sunday, March 06, 2011 05:28:13 pm John R Pierce wrote:
On 03/06/11 5:50 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
It's kind of funny since OracleVM*is* Xen, and it's counted as "hardware partitioning" :)
OracleVM(tm) is a brand name now, being used for anything that remotely resembles virtualization, from Xen to Solaris Zones to hardware partitioning on the M series of big Sparc64 boxes.
:-/
Aehm, OracleVM for Sparc is the Sun LDom (Logical Domains) software and does not work on anything but T servers. M servers use "Dynamic Domains", a completely different technology. Containers/Zones or Dynamic Domains don't have a OracleVM name...
Either way, Oracle counts Oracle VM (for x86/x64) as a hard partitioning technology when you use cpu affinity (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/virtualization/ovm- hardpart-167739.pdf)... Its just another case where Oracle is favoring their own products with licensing.
Peter.