Virtualization and the ODA - Practical Oracle Database Appliance - page 180

NAME TYPE NODENUM STATE
odarepo1 local 0 N/A
odarepo2 local 1 N/A
repo1 shared 0 ONLINE
repo1 shared 1 ONLINE
#oakcli show repo repo1 -node 1
Resource: repo1_1
AutoStart : restore
DG : DATA
Device : /dev/asm/repo1-286
ExpectedState : Online
MountPoint : /u01/app/repo1
Name : repo1_0
Node : all
RepoType : shared
Size : 20720
State : Online
# oakcli stop repo repo1 -node 1
User VM Creation
The repository creation is an important step toward getting a user-defined VM built. User-defined VMs are used
to run any application or software that is independent of the Oracle Database. This can be any application, like
WebLogic or even a Windows VM. The goal of providing virtualization as an option is to make the ODA a single box
for deployment in scenarios such as stores or bank branches and reduce the number of infrastructure components to
run a complete system.
User VMs are created using the process of cloning a VM template. Oracle provides a lot of commonly used
templates at http://edelivery.oracle.com ; the templates can be downloaded and imported into the repositories.
Listings 10-5 through 10-8 show the process of importing a VM template in various ways. This process involves
copying the file to the dom0 and importing it into a local or shared repository. Templates can also be imported from
external template repositories.
Listing 10-5. Importing a VM Template to a Local Repository
#oakcli import vmtemplate ol6linux_64 -files /OVS/OVM_OL6_X86_64.tgz
Listing 10-6. Importing a VM Template into a Shared Repository
#oakcli import vmtemplate ol6linux_64 -files /OVS/OVM_OL6_X86_64.tgz -repo repo1
Listing 10-7. Importing a Template via an External Repository Template into a Shared Repository
#oakcli import vmtemplate ol6linux_64 -files ' http://vm.example.com/OEL6/OVM_OL6_X86_64.tgz '
-repo repo1
Listing 10-8. Importing a Template via a Template Assembly into a Shared Repository
#oakcli import vmtemplate ol6linux_64 -assembly
' http://vm.example.com/assemblies/OEL6/OVM_OL6_X86_64.ova ' -repo repo1