In today’s article I
wanted to focus a little bit about some interesting information I came across
with Oracle VM 3.0 and the bundled Oracle Database Express Edition (XE).
In
previous version of Oracle VM (i.e. 2.1.x – 2.2.x), Oracle supported Oracle XE
databases for it’s production environments (to my knowledge anyway, never seen
any documentation to say otherwise). However, with the new instalment of Oracle
VM 3.0 that has changed. Oracle’s new stance is for non-production environments
you can use the bundled Oracle XE database found within the Oracle VM 3.0
Manager media, however if you want to have production support you are required
to install Oracle Database Standard Edition (SE) or Enterprise Edition (EE).
It
never mentioned what version of Oracle SE or EE, but I’d assume an 11g database
would be appropriate assumption. So what exactly does that mean for you?
Well
for one, prior to installing the Oracle VM 3.0 Manager media, you will need to
have an Oracle Database SE or EE installed on your system. Once you have
completed that step, when installing the Oracle VM 3.0 Manager, select your
Installation type to be ‘Standard’ (‘Simple’ will auto install the bundled
Oracle XE database), then select option two ‘Use an existing Oracle
database’ and enter the appropriate credentials.
Hope you enjoyed the
article and keep an eye out for future articles to come.
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