I’ve been running Oracle Virtual Machines internally for several months. While at Oracle Open World I had a conversation at one of the Oracle kiosks where they recommended I go ahead and upgrade to the latest OVM release 2.2.0 When I first installed OVM I setup the console database and software on my laptop in a VMWare machine . That was fine initially but it was a hassle always having to startup the VMWare when I wanted to administer the Oracle Virtual Machines.
I was assured that by upgrading to the new release I would be able to easily to migrate the OVM console to another system. My target system is a 64-bit PC (ABASIN) executing Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.3 which would allow me to just fire up a web browser on my laptop and use ABASIN as my official OVM system. Several weeks ago I downloaded the Oracle Virtual Server and Oracle Virtual Manager 2.2.o from E-Delivery (edelivery.oracle.com) and burned them to two CD’s.
I then upgraded the OVM version I had running under VMWare. That involved mounting the iso file and executing runInstaller.sh. That all went very well and I’ve provided more details below.
I then used the backup.sh in the /opt/ovs-manager-2.2/bin directory to export my current XE database tables for OVM. Then I upgraded ABASIN with the same CD and used the same backup script, which has a restore option, to restore the files into that XE database.
Now it was time to upgrade my physical virtual server with the latest Oracle Virtual Server. That involved shutting down all Virtual Machines and booting the server using the OVS 2.2.0 disk. That process also went off without a hitch.
I was then able to connect to the updated OVS from ABASIN and do my management via browser without needing to start VMWare locally. Overall I was surprised how easy the process was and I’m very pleased with the new version!
For those of you who want to see the details of the VMM update I’ve listed the log below.
[root@sunlight ovm]# ./runInstaller.sh Welcome to Oracle VM Manager 2.2 Please enter the choice: [1|2|3] 1. Install Oracle VM Manager 2. Uninstall Oracle VM Manager 3. Upgrade Oracle VM Manager [3] Starting Oracle VM Manager 2.2 upgrade ... Backup the database before upgrade is highly recommended, to backup the database now, choose 'N' and run: /opt/ovs-manager-2.1/bin/backup.sh Are you sure you want to upgrade Oracle VM Manager from version 2.1.2 to 2.2 ? [y|N] [y] Please enter the password for database account 'OVS': [********] Now upgrading OC4J ... Please enter the password for account 'oc4jadmin': [**********] Starting OC4J ... Done. Now upgrading the database schema ... Done. Now upgrading the Oracle VM Manager application ... Done. Please enter the keystore password for the Web Service: [********] Confirm the password: [********] Setting keystore password for Web Service ... Done Do you want to use HTTPS access for Oracle VM Manager (Y|n)? [Y] Configuring OC4J to use HTTPS ... Done Stopping OC4J ... Done Starting OC4J ... Done Upgrade Oracle VM Manager successfully. Please check the log /var/log/ovm-manager/upgrade_2.1.2_2.2.log for more information. To access the Oracle VM Manager 2.2 home page go to: https://127.0.0.1:4443/OVS To access the Oracle VM Manager web services WSDL page go to: https://127.0.0.1:4443/OVSWS/LifecycleService.wsdl https://127.0.0.1:4443/OVSWS/ResourceService.wsdl https://127.0.0.1:4443/OVSWS/PluginService.wsdl https://127.0.0.1:4443/OVSWS/ServerPoolService.wsdl https://127.0.0.1:4443/OVSWS/VirtualMachineService.wsdl https://127.0.0.1:4443/OVSWS/AdminService.wsdl To access the Oracle VM Manager help page go to: https://127.0.0.1:4443/help/help