Oracle today announced Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder and Oracle WebLogic Suite Virtualisation Option to help make running Java applications in a virtualised environment easy and practical.
Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder is a new product designed to help organisations quickly and easily deploy multi-tier enterprise applications in virtualised environments. It also enables administrators to quickly configure and provision these applications.
Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder provides a framework for automatically capturing the configuration of existing software components and packaging them as self-contained building blocks known as appliances.
In addition, Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder enables administrators to easily connect appliances as pluggable building blocks, known as assemblies, which can be used to create multi-tier applications.
Oracle WebLogic Suite Virtualisation Option brings together Oracle WebLogic Server with JRockit Virtual Edition in a new release of the world's number one application server. This release is optimised for virtualised environments and able to deliver higher application performance and increased hardware utilisation.
Oracle WebLogic Server can now run directly on Oracle VM without an operating system, a unique capability enabled by Oracle JRockit Virtual Edition. Oracle VM server virtualisation helps make enterprise software easier to deploy and manage, and is highly optimised to run business-critical database and application workloads efficiently and cost-effectively. The only x86 server virtualisation certified for all Oracle software, Oracle VM is available as a free download.
In a virtualised environment, Oracle JRockit Virtual Edition handles essential operating system functions, including TCP/IP, hardware device interaction, file I/O, and process scheduling, while freeing up hardware and management resources by removing operating system capabilities that are not essential for enterprise Java applications.
Together with Oracle JRockit Virtual Edition, Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder can drive deployment and runtime efficiencies. This combination can deliver significant value through both operational and capital cost savings.
Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder enables the creation and configuration of multi-tier applications and provisions them onto virtualised resources.
Application-Aware Physical to Virtual: Captures the configuration of each software component in an existing application environment and packages them into a collection of customised software appliances.
Standardised Building Blocks: Creates multi-tier application assemblies using virtualised appliances.
Simplified and Rapid Provisioning: Single-step, template-based deployment of multi-tier applications to virtualised environments.
Oracle JRockit Virtual Edition enhances the performance and functionality of Oracle WebLogic Server 11g in virtualised environments. This enables organisations to maximise server virtualisation investments through:
Improved Server Density: By eliminating the operating system, Oracle WebLogic Server on JRockit Virtual Edition frees up system resources to run more application server instances on the same hardware.
Higher Performance: Oracle WebLogic Server on JRockit Virtual Edition can increase the performance of virtualised Java applications by up to 30% compared to deployments that include an operating system.
“With these groundbreaking products, Oracle has made virtualisation a reality for Java enterprise applications. Moreover, we are the only vendor to empower customers with this kind of comprehensive solution,” said Steven G Harris, senior vice-president of product development, Oracle. “With Oracle WebLogic Server running on JRockit Virtual Edition, we have eliminated the trade-off of server density and performance by bringing the world's number one application server to virtualised environments.”
“Enterprise applications are often a composite of many different entities distributed across different machines,” said Adam Messinger, vice-president of development, Oracle. “To simplify and speed virtualised deployments, Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder can take a snapshot of distributed applications and package them into an assembly that can be easily re-used. This helps organisations quickly scale and also reduces potential deployment risk by enabling administrators to leverage and re-deploy proven configurations.”
“We have tested Oracle WebLogic Server on JRockit Virtual Edition in the context of the CERN openlab partnership, and we have found impressive benefits for our organisation. This solution significantly simplifies the maintenance of our middleware solutions and provides cost-effective scalability on demand as it runs without a guest operating system. Overall, Oracle WebLogic Server on JRockit Virtual Edition enables us to respond faster to our users' demands,” Carlos Garcia Fernandes, CERN Database Group and CERN openlab.
"We've been a WebLogic Server and Oracle VM customer for many years. The Oracle WebLogic Suite Virtualisation Option, and its use of Oracle VM server virtualisation, can give us the performance and reliability that we need to run our business applications, while speeding our deployment times. It can also provide the scalability we need to grow with our business and is based on open standards to help us maintain the flexibility we desire," said Michael Poole, Chief Technology Officer, University of Massachusetts System.
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