What you need for this book

Unless otherwise stated, the environment used in the examples and referred to throughout the book is Oracle VM Manager 2.1.2, installed on hardware. I have chosen two scenarios—the first is a two box HP DL 360 Dual CPU, 2 GB RAM configuration and the other is a two box Dell 2900 Quad-core, 32GB RAM each. We'll use the shipped Oracle templates where necessary, so as to do exciting things such as Server pool creation, live migration, and so on, but we will also go about creating custom templates where necessary.

All Oracle VM platform and tools are available on Oracle's virtualization site and we will use them for the purpose of understanding this book.