Oracle VM Manager: Server Pool Creation

Server Pool Creation

We have had a quick look at the servers that we can add to the Server Pool but we haven't seen how to create one. So let's go ahead and do that.

To create a Server Pool, click on the Create Pool button on the Server Pool's page on the top-right corner of the page.

As mentioned, let's go ahead and login to the Oracle VM Manager portal as administrator, "Admin" and use the wizard to create a Server Pool by using our first Oracle VM Server as the Server Pool Master, the Virtual Machine Server, and the Utility Server.

Create a Server Pool by following the Wizard:

On the welcome page, click on Next:

On the Server Information page, we will enter the following information:

• Server Host/IP: We need to enter our first Oracle VM Server here. We simply fill in the IP address of the VM Server that will act as the Server pool Master, Oracle Utility Server, and also the Virtual Machine Server. We type in our first available IP address which is 172.22.202.112. Alternatively we can also type in the hostname.domain.com, for instance OracleVM01.AVASTU.COM.
• Server Name: This name should be unique. We choose the IP address here as we haven't yet added these servers in our DNS.
• Agent Password: This password is used to access the Oracle VM Agent which in turn is used for accessing the Server Pool Master.
• Server Username: We simply type in user root for the Utility Server. However, note that in production systems root users are normally locked down. In such a case, we will type in the system admin user name provided to us by the administrator.
• Server Password: Type in the password for the Utility Server.
• Server Location: This will typically be the location of our server in our Data Center. We have conveniently chosen the Avastu HQ as the location.