It's been a while since I've had to do anything with Oracle VM Manager in my lab environment, mainly because I've been too busy with shuffling emails from customers, who for one reason or another seem to be dragging their feet, nothing new there though.
So back to the problem in hand. I had an Oracle VM Manager 3.2.8 that was installed on a physical server and I wanted to move it to a virtual machine running as an Exalogic VM guest. I thought to myself I know I'll get smart and make the VM guest similar to the Exalogic Control VM, after all it is a piece of infrastructure. After several days hacking round with Exalogic Control going round and round in circles because what I was trying to do was not supported I finally managed to get the new VM on the "EoIB-external-mgmt" network by editing the vm.cfg file and adding the following;
Knowing the problems I'd had before with my post Server Not Owned By You I decided to install the new Oracle VM Manager with the same UUID using the official documented procedure which is http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E35328_01/E35330/html/vmiug-manager-restoring.html. You'll notice from the link above that the UUID value is specified in uppercase as shown below.
DO NOT CONVERT YOUR UUID TO UPPERCASE.
So back to the problem in hand. I had an Oracle VM Manager 3.2.8 that was installed on a physical server and I wanted to move it to a virtual machine running as an Exalogic VM guest. I thought to myself I know I'll get smart and make the VM guest similar to the Exalogic Control VM, after all it is a piece of infrastructure. After several days hacking round with Exalogic Control going round and round in circles because what I was trying to do was not supported I finally managed to get the new VM on the "EoIB-external-mgmt" network by editing the vm.cfg file and adding the following;
vif = ['type=netfront,mac=00:14:4f:fb:87:61,bridge=xenbr0']Anyway all of that has nothing to do with "Owned by Another Manager" other than that it happened on the journey.
Knowing the problems I'd had before with my post Server Not Owned By You I decided to install the new Oracle VM Manager with the same UUID using the official documented procedure which is http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E35328_01/E35330/html/vmiug-manager-restoring.html. You'll notice from the link above that the UUID value is specified in uppercase as shown below.
# ./runInstaller.sh --uuid 0004FB000000100002CB7F2DFFA8D8I naively took this to mean that the UUID needed to specified in uppercase so I converted my UUID from 0004fb0000010000d1b7eca67025e1c1 to it's uppercase equivalent 0004FB0000010000D1B7ECA67025E1C1, this was my downfall.
DO NOT CONVERT YOUR UUID TO UPPERCASE.
After re-discovering all my servers they were now presented in the Oracle VM Manager UI as "Owned by Another Manager" so I had to uninstall Oracle VM Manager and start again which brings me onto another issue that I encountered ORA-02379: profile OVMM_PROFILE already exists.
