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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)

Chapter 4. Enterprise Monitoring

So far we have focused on building various components of cloud computing using Oracle Enterprise Manager. Like any robust system, modern cloud environments are expected to be resilient. Exceptional software engineering and system administration efforts go into making an enterprise cloud environment safe and failure proof.

However, the reality is that things will break eventually. The question is not how we can prevent failures, but how fast we can recover from failures. Cloud computing poses formidable challenges when it comes to maintaining uptime and ensuring that failures don't impact the SLAs.

Monitoring for failures or exceptional conditions is part of cloud philosophy but as the scale of the cloud grows, it gets inefficient to manually monitor the entire cloud infrastructure. Imagine a cloud environment at the scale of Amazon AWS; it would be unpractical and almost impossible to manually monitor such a cloud infrastructure. For this reason, all the scalable...