We announced Oracle VM Blade Cluster Reference Configuration last month, see the blog.
The new Oracle VM blade cluster reference configuration can help reduce
the time to deploy virtual infrastructure by up to 98 percent when
compared to multi-vendor configurations. Customers and partners have shown lots of interests. Join Oracle's experts to learn the best practices
for speeding virtual infrastructure deployment with Oracle VM, register
the webcast (1/25/2011) here.
Virtualization has already been widely accepted as
a means to increase IT flexibility and help IT services align better with
changing business needs. The flexibility of a virtualized IT infrastructure
enables new applications to be rapidly deployed, capacity to be easily scaled,
and IT resources to be quickly redirected. The net result is that IT can bring
greater value to the business, making virtualization an obvious win from a
business perspective.
However, building a virtualized infrastructure
typically requires assembling and integrating multiple components (e.g.
servers, storage, network, virtualization, and operating systems). This
infrastructure must be deployed and tested before applications can even be
installed. It can take weeks or months to plan, architect, configure,
troubleshoot, and deploy a virtualized infrastructure. The process is not only
time-consuming, but also error-prone, making it hard to achieve a timely and
profitable return on investment.
Oracle is the only vendor that can offer a fully integrated
virtualization infrastructure with all of the necessary hardware and
software components. The Oracle VM blade cluster reference
configuration is a single-vendor
solution that addresses every layer of the virtualization stack with
Oracle
hardware and software components, see the figure below. It enables
quick and easy
deployment of the virtualized infrastructure using components that have
been
tested together and are all supported together by Oracle. To learn more about Oracle's virtualization offerings, visit http://oracle.com/virtualization.
