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Managing IaaS and DBaaS Clouds with Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

By : Ved Antani
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Managing IaaS and DBaaS Clouds with Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

By: Ved Antani

Overview of this book

Cloud computing has transformed the way that we write and deploy enterprise software. Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c has been designed to work with the cloud platform and reduce downtime, while improving performance and productivity. You can quickly set up, manage, and support enterprise clouds. This practical, example-oriented guide untangles many of the complexities involved in setting up a complete cloud computing platform. This book explores several methods of setting up IaaS and DBaaS using Oracle's Enterprise Manager. Step-by-step, this guide will quickly familiarize you with the most important aspects of setting up a cloud platform. This book delves deep into the complexities surrounding cloud computing and comprehensively explores the approach that you need to take to build an effective infrastructure. You will start with a step-by-step approach to building an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and take an in-depth view of building a Database as a Service (DBaaS) model of cloud computing. Following on from this, you will learn how the chargeback mechanism works and how it can be configured for your needs. Next, you will also learn how to use a programmable interface to manage your cloud via APIs and web services. This guide will walk you through the various components of Oracle Enterprise Manager and will teach you how to use them efficiently. This book will also explain how you can use cloud APIs to program your cloud.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Database service templates


Oracle Enterprise Manager offers a very useful feature to further automate the commonly repeated provisioning workflow. Let's say your organization has a software engineering department that provisions databases based on a set of project requirements. They have a fixed set of database structures, schemas, and configuration settings that they need to provision quite frequently. If this is a repeated workflow, it becomes tedious to create database instances with the exact same configuration every time a new provisioning request comes to the admin.

You can create database provisioning profiles to combine all of the necessary configuration and schema information to provision the database into a logical entity. You can use this profile to create service templates.

Service templates can be used by DBaaS self-service users to provision databases or schemas on their own. Service templates can be created using a SnapClone-based profile, RMAN backup-based profile, or a DBCA...