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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)

Setting up the PaaS infrastructure


Before we go about implementing a DBaaS, we will need to make sure our common platform is up and working.

We have already discussed how we can automatically monitor or manually add hosts to Enterprise Manager; we will now check how we can create a PaaS Zone.

Creating PaaS Zones

Enterprise Manager groups host or Oracle VM Manager Zones into PaaS Infrastructure Zones. You will need to have at least one PaaS Zone before you can add more features into the setup. To create a PaaS Zone, make sure that you have the following:

  • The EM_CLOUD_ADMINISTRATOR, EM_SSA_ADMINISTRATOR, and EM_SSA_USER roles created

  • A software library

To set up a PaaS Infrastructure Zone, perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to Setup | Cloud | PaaS Infrastructure Zone.

  2. Click on Create in the PaaS Infrastructure Zone main page.

  3. Enter the necessary details for PaaS Infrastructure Zone such as Name and Description.

  4. Based on the type of members you want to add to this zone, you can select any of the following...