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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)

Managing storage servers


In this section we will discuss how we can configure underlying storage systems such as NetApp Storage System or Sun ZFS Storage to host our database instances. Naturally, our shared database instance will require storage to host the data, and when the user wants to provision an instance of a database, Oracle Enterprise Manager provisions the preconfigured slice of underlying storage space to host that database instance. We will check how we can configure and register various storage systems for Oracle Enterprise Manager. As of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c, only NetApp and Sun ZFS storage is supported. We will discuss the configuration of both systems.

When we register the storage inside Oracle Enterprise Manager, we can utilize snapshot management and cloning functionalities supported by these storage systems. Oracle Enterprise Manager can quickly create exact replicas of database instances using a technology called SnapClone. SnapClone uses the underlying...