Creation of virtual machines is the most elemental function you will use within your Oracle VM Manager. However, in order to create virtual machines, a server pool must be created to host your virtual machines. A server pool can be thought of as a container in which to hold one or more physical servers. Once a server pool is created, virtual machines can be hosted by one of the physical servers within the server pool. Virtual Machines by default are hosted in a round-robin fashion making sure the servers within your pool are properly load balanced. However, if there is a particular need for a VM to be hosted on a particular server within your server pool you can manually set this feature using the ‘Preferred Server’ section when creating a virtual machine. Manually assigning a VM to a particular server is not recommended because you will lose high availability.
The steps to create a Server Pool are as follows:
1. Select the tab labeled ‘Server Pools’
2. On the right corner select the button labeled ‘Create Pool’
3. On the section labeled ‘Create Server Pool’ please enter the name of your server pool, the server pool virtual IP, and make sure to set High Availability Mode to ‘Enabled.’ The server pool virtual IP will allow the ability to enable high availability. If a virtual IP is not entered, the High Availability Mode will be disabled.
4. On the section labeled ‘Server Details’ add the servers you wish to register within your server pool. Once you have entered a server’s credentials select the ‘Add’ button on the right corner. It is important to note that each server pool requires one Master node, at least one Utility Server, and at least one Virtual Machine Server.
For more information on what exactly is a master, utility and virtual server please refer to the master book list found at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E15458_01/nav/portal_booklist.htm
5. On the User information section please fill out the appropriate information and click Next.
6. On the Confirmation Summary, please review the server pool details and, if correct, click Finish.
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I am trying to set up the Oracle virtual environment. I have setup both the vm server and vm machine. I am trying to create the virtual pool and is receiving the following message, i have tried finding the cause to no avail. Can you offer a suggestion.
The message is SR ‘/dev/sda5′ not supported: type ‘ocfs2.local’ not in [‘nfs’, ‘ocfs2.cluster’
It sounds like you have not created the ocfs2 partition yet. Make sure to create the ocfs2 partition, create the repository, then set cluster root and initialize the repo.
Is dev sd5 the block device you are trying to use?
Yes, /dev/sda5 is the block device. I will try and let you know the results
Hello Bro
Please Help me
I was installed Oracle VM Manager 2.My IP is 192.168.137.4.
i access to vm manager with 192.168.137.4:8888. Login user=admin, password=*********.
when i create server pool
“server agent password” is what mean? Will i need to install server agent?
i get this errors
OVM-2007 Oracle VM Agent (192.168.0.9) is not active, and the operation can not be performed.
and
OVM-1000 OVM Manager could not connect to 192.168.137.6, please check the IP and Oracle VM agent password
what should i do?
please help me and reply quickly
thanks
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when you go to your OVM Server is the ovm agent running?
Try service ovs-agent start
It seems the reason you are getting this issue is because your OVM Server agent cannot talk to the OVM Manager.
Hi,
I have added two servers to a server pool, but I don’t know why the servers never appears belonging to the server pool. I have tried to add them again to the server pool but OVM Manager complains of those server pertains to another server pool. The strange thing is there is no other server pool!!!.
Any ideas? I need to find out (from the ovm 2.2.2 server) to which server pool is attached and via command line detach it to reassign it through the manager?.
Regards