Storix Software SBAdmin Oracle VMServer for x86 Recovery Guide - Manual (Page 2)

Storix System Backup Administrator 2 Oracle VM Server for x86 Recovery Guide
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Oracle VM Server for x86 Recovery Guide
The purpose of this document is to provide the steps necessary to perform system recovery of an Oracle VM Server for
x86 system and to define the aspects of system recovery that are and are not supported. This guide does not include all
the features and options available with SBAdmin, but is intended to be used as an addendum to the
SBAdmin User
Guide and the SBAdmin Linux System Recovery Guide .
SBAdmin provides support for Oracle VM Server for x86 versions 2.1, 2.2 and 3.x.
System Backup of Oracle VM Manager (version 3)
Beginning with version 3, Oracle VM Server requires a separate server outside of the server pool to run Oracle VM
Manager. This system must run Oracle Linux 5.5 or greater. It is not required that this system run as a dom0 and
may be run on a physical system or in a virtual environment. Performing system recovery of a physical or virtual
machine is detailed in the
SBAdmin Linux Recovery Guide .
Performing a system backup of the Oracle VM Manager is done much in the same manner as other Linux systems.
Refer to the
SBAdmin User Guide for additional details. However, the following considerations deserve mention
because they are specific to Oracle VM Manager.
Understanding Oracle VM Manager
The Oracle VM Manager software consistes of an Oracle Database and other frameworks provided by Oracle.
Depending on your environment the Oracle VM Manager Database may be stored locally on the system running
Oracle VM Manager or on a remote system. If the database is stored locally you may perform a full system
backup of the Oracle VM Manager that will include this database. However, it is good practice to shutdown the
database or use the SBAdmin snapshot backup feature on the filesystem containing the database. If this
database is on a remote system, or backed up through other means these steps may not be necessary. The
following command is used to stop the Oracle VM Manager service.
# /sbin/service ovmm stop
System Backup of Oracle VM Server (dom0)
Oracle VM Server for x86 is based on Xen virtualization technology. Therefore, you will see the server referred to
as dom0 in this and other documents. The virtualized guest machines that run on the server are referred to as domU
systems. Performing system recovery of a domU guest machine is detailed in the
SBAdmin Xen Recovery Guide .
Performing a system backup of the Oracle VM Server (dom0) is done much in the same manner as any other Linux
system. Refer to the
SBAdmin User Guide for additional details. However, the following considerations deserve
mention because they are specific to dom0 systems: