Oracle VM Server 2.2.1 + Oracle VM Manager 2.2.0 Installed and Configured

First blog post in the Data Dojo! 

For a weekend project, I decided to wipe clean my Fedora 12 + Oracle 10g installation from my microATX miniserver (2.6 GHz dual-core, 8GB RAM 1066, 320 GB 7200 SATA) and install OVM Server and Manager from http://edelivery.oracle.com/oraclevm. I have also downloaded the OVM Templates for 10.2.0.4 and 11.1.0.6.

Steps:

a) Burned ISO image of OVM Server to CD

b) Installed OVM Server with standard partition layouts with 8GB swap and 8GB root

c) Configured static IP (192.168.1.99) for the OVM Server host

d) Edited /etc/hosts on OVM Server to set host name and static IP address

e) Opened ports 8888 and 8899 for OVM Manager remote management

 # /usr/bin/system-config-securitylevel

f) Copied OVM Manager ISO image to OVM Server hard disk

g) Mounted OVM Manager ISO image from OVM hard disk as /OVMCD

 # mount -o loop,ro OracleVM-Manager-2.2.0.iso /OVMCD

h) Installed OVM Manager with defaults but without SSL

i) Download and install TightVNC on OVM Server

 # wget http://oss.oracle.com/oraclevm/manager/RPMS/tightvnc-java-1.3.9-3.noarch.rpm

 # rpm -ivh tightvnc-java-1.3.9-3.noarch.rpm

j) Logged into OVM Manager as admin from workstation browser (http://192.168.1.99:8888/OVS)

k) Created and initialized root storage repository formatted with OCFS2 filesystem

 # fdisk n /dev/sda5

 # mkfs.ocfs2 /dev/sda5

 # /opt/ovs-agent-2.3/utils/repos.py -n /dev/sda5

 # /opt/ovs-agent-2.3/utils/repos.py -l | awk '{print $4}' |xargs /opt/ovs-agent-2.3/utils/repos.py -r

 # /opt/ovs-agent-2.3/utils/repos.py -i

l) Created a Server Pool in OVM Manager

m) Extracted the VM templates into the /OVS/seed_pool directory on the OVM Server host

n) Imported the VM templates into OVM Manager and approved for use
o) Created a VM from each of the the 10g and 11g templates

Under the 10g and 11g VMs:

a) Changed default RAM allocation from 2GB to 1GB

b) Created a new virtual disk named virtualdisk1 (/dev/xvdc) of about 100 GB

c) Connected to the VM through the VNC console

d) Configured VM Oracle instances with defaults and static IPs

e) Created new ASM disk group from virtualdisk1

 # fdisk /dev/xvdc

 # /etc/init.d/oracleasm createdisk ASM1 /dev/xvdc1

 $ export ORACLE_SID=+ASM

 $ sqlplus / as sysdba

 SQL> alter diskgroup DATA add disk 'ORCL:ASM1';

That's about as far as I have gotten with setting up my new OVM Server. Going to bed now.