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Oracle Cloud Control

I had the occasion recently to deploy an OVM stack at a customer site.  Initially it was my intention to only deploy Enterprise Manager 12c and take advantage of the cloud control features within.  As it turned out, this provides merely a "remote control" function of an existing OVM Manager.  With this in mind, I could not find many advantages to using EM12c for Oracle virtual machine management. The next hurdle was with the hardware.  Of course, the physical servers we deployed the OVS 3.1.1. hyper-visor on were not "Oracle Certified."  Specifically DELL PowerEdge M620 Blade Servers.  ( http://www.dell.com/us/enterprise/p/poweredge-m620/pd?~ck=anav ) The customer had selected the Broadcom®  57810S-k Dual Port 10Gb KR blade NDC on board Network Adapter as well as the Mezzanine Broadcom 5719 Serdes Quad Port 1Gb providing a total of 6 ethernet ports, two of them 10GB. The storage array is Equalogic iSCSI SAN.  (Sorry the exact make / model of the SAN escapes me