Edward Whalen - Oracle VM Implementation and Administration Guide

Edward Whalen is the founder of Performance Tuning Corporation (www.perftuning.com), a consulting company specializing in database performance, administration, virtualization, and disaster recovery solutions. Prior to starting Performance Tuning, he worked at Compaq Computer Corporation as an OS developer, and then as a database performance engineer. He has extensive experience in database system design and tuning for optimal performance. His career has consisted of hardware, OS, and database development projects for many different companies. Edward Whalen has written four other books on the Oracle RDBMS and five books on MS SQL Server. He has also worked on numerous benchmarks and performance tuning projects with both Oracle and MS SQL Server. Edward Whalen is recognized as a leader in database performance tuning and optimization.

John Margaglione managed ISV partnerships and enablement at Oracle Corporation, including the Oracle VM, VirtualBox, SGD, and VDI platforms. John has worked with virtualization technologies for over eighteen years, starting with CMS on IBM mainframes, and has worked with major technology vendors to find innovative uses of virtualization technology from applications to disk. John has a degree in statistics and applied mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is a certified Oracle VM Implementation Specialist.

Gary Parker is a senior Oracle consultant with Performance Tuning Corporation. Gary is Oracle certified and has extensive experience in consulting, database administration, and system administration. His experience includes more than fifteen years tuning and administering Oracle databases and implementing Oracle RAC, Grid Control, Data Guard, and Oracle applications running on UNIX, Linux, and Windows operating systems on both physical and virtual environments.

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PART I
Introduction

PART II
Installing and Configuring Oracle VM

PART III
Managing Oracle VM Servers and Guests

PART IV
Installing and Configuring the Guest OS

PART V
Appendixes and Glossary

I would like to thank John Margaglione and Gary Parker for their hard work technical editing this book. They not only did a great job editing but offered suggestions along the way as well. Good technical editors can either make or break a book. Gary and John put in a lot of effort to make this book what it turned out to be. I would also like to thank web developer and designer Brandi Boyd for her work on .

Thanks also to Stephanie Evans, Wendy Rinaldi, and all of the staff at Oracle Press/McGraw-Hill Professional for their hard work and professionalism. This is my second book as an author with Oracle Press/McGraw-Hill Professional and both experiences were great. This publishing company is excellent to work with.

Id like to thank my wife Felicia and the dogs for putting up with all the time I spent working on the book, and I also want to acknowledge the support and encouragement from my family. Finally Id like to thank some of the people that have encouraged me professionally including Jeff Bertman, Michael New, Marci Garcia, and Steve DeLuca.

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