Integrated Web browser-based management console.Manage pools of virtual servers across grids of hardware.Move virtual machine from one physical host to another without the application going down.Can run several Windows,Linux and Solaris instances on a physical server.Hypervisor technology (based on Xen) that installs directly on the empty hardware (bare metal).Oracle VM manager - manages the VM Servers.

Oracle VM server - install on all physical servers.

This includes the Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications. Most, if not all of Oracle's products are certified to run within Oracle VM's virtual machines. It can support Linux, Solaris and Windows as guest operating systems (although Windows applications might not perform well on it). Oracle VM runs on x86 and x86-64-based systems. The product was made available as a free download on 14 November 2007.

Oracle VM was announced at the 2007 Oracle OpenWorld Conference in San Fransisco where Oracle described it as one of the biggest software launches in the company's history.

Oracle virtualization