ODAVP: Migrating systems to ODA Virtualized Platform (ODA VP)
(Doc ID 1608367.1)
Last updated on JUNE 18, 2024
Applies to:
Oracle Database Appliance - Version All Versions and laterOracle Database Appliance Software - Version 2.5.0.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
Goal
The aim of this article is to show how to migrate a systems, running on physical HW, VMware, VBox, KVM to use with Oracle Database Appliance Virtualized Platform (ODA VP)
Solution
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In this Document
| Goal |
| Solution |
| Covered scenarios |
| I. Physical System and VM to ODA VP |
| 1. Create a virtual machine image of a computer: |
| 2. Download the physical system image |
| 3. Build the ODA VP valid template |
| 4. Import the template into ODA VP |
| 5. Once the template has been registered you can clone the new Guest as following (from oda_base) |
| II. VMWare or VBox or Hyper-V to ODA VP |
| 1. Pre export steps |
| 2. Export the VM from VMWare or VBox as OVA format |
| 3. Import the OVA VM template on ODA VP |
| 4. Once the template has been registered review the vm configuration file 'vm.cfg' (from dom0) |
| 5. Once the template has been registered you can clone the new Guest as following (from oda_base) |
| III. How to Manually Convert a VMWare Guest Image for use with Oracle Database Appliance Virtualized Platform |
| 1. Choose the appropriate VMware guest to convert |
| 2. Pre export steps |
| 3. Convert VMware image to a single disk |
| 4. Convert VMware single disk to raw image using qemu-img |
| 5. Copy raw VMware disk to Oracle Database Appliance VM Server |
| 6. Create the Virtual Machine configuration file |
| 7. Register the new Guest VM as OVM Template |
| References |