Server Virtualization

Oracle Server virtualization technologies help organizations create administrative and resource boundaries between applications. This approach provides improved application performance and security, and also can be a vehicle for rapid application provisioning by delivering pre-installed, pre-configured virtual machine images of enterprise software. Because no two environments have exactly the same needs, Oracle’s full range of server virtualization technologies provide varying degrees of isolation, resource granularity, and flexibility, and can be used separately or together to tackle specific deployment challenges. Delivering operating system virtualization, virtual machines, and hard partitioning technologies, Oracle’s server virtualization solutions can help companies to consolidate applications onto fewer systems to affect better resource utilization, reduce the number of operating system instances to manage, improve security, lower licensing costs, and reduce the time to install and configure software, thereby speeding time to market.

For example, companies can take advantage of Oracle VM Server for x86, Oracle VM Server for SPARC, and Oracle Solaris Containers to create virtual server environments that can run a wide range of operating systems and take advantage of the latest platform advancements without changing applications, thereby protecting investments. In environments needing bare-metal performance and availability, Dynamic Domains can be used to divide a single system into multiple electrically isolated partitions for the ultimate in workload isolation. When rapid software deployment is a key concern, organizations can use the pre-installed and pre-configured software images available in Oracle VM
Templates to shorten time to market, eliminate installation and configuration costs, and reduce ongoing maintenance and operational costs.

• Oracle VM Server for x86
• Oracle VM Server for SPARC
• Oracle Solaris Containers (PDF)

Desktop Virtualization

Workplace flexibility is an ally in the move to reduce expenses. However, giving users the ability to move from place to place without losing the functionality of traditional fixed asset environments poses a host of desktop management and security challenges. To help this effort, Oracle provides a set of integrated client- and server-based desktop virtualization solutions that transcend the limitations of conventional desktop computing to deliver secure, anytime, anywhere access from any device. Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure provides a complete solution for managing, hosting, and providing access to virtualized Microsoft Windows, Oracle Linux, or Oracle Solaris desktops hosted in the datacenter. Users can access the same complete desktop environment from many different client devices and locations, enabling disaster recovery, remote office and work from home, and green computing through the use of low-power thin-client devices such as Oracle's Sun Ray Clients. When secure access to server-hosted Windows, UNIX®, mainframe, and midrange applications is needed— such as when deploying Siebel or Hyperion client software to end users—Oracle Secure Global Desktop Software can provide access to applications hosted on these disparate platforms on a single PC. For users needing to run multiple independent operating systems on their desktop PC or laptop, Oracle VM VirtualBox enables high-performance virtual machines that can run dozens of operating systems on standards Windows, Mac OS X, Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, and other Linux PCs.

• Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
• Oracle Secure Global Desktop
• Sun Ray Clients