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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)

Chargebacks


Once we have set up our PaaS model and made sure that DBaaS provisioning is working fine, it's time to think about how the resource utilization will be accounted for. All the resources we manage using our PaaS needs to be analyzed for their usage and appropriate departments or users need to be charged according to agreed upon SLA and payment terms. Chargebacks allow us to set up an elaborate matrix of usage costs and allow the admins to closely monitor the resource usage. As most PaaS implementations are self-service in nature, it becomes increasingly important and difficult to maintain correct chargebacks as per the resource utilization because there are many different types of provision requests.

Oracle Enterprise Manager lets you create very detailed chargeback mechanisms and offers excellent chargeback reports. You can set up universal as well as create granular extended chargeback plans.

We will now take a look at how you can configure chargebacks to suit your needs, but before...