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

Ved Antani

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2013
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781782177708
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Data Warehousing
• Index: Computer Science

In Detail

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 Oracles 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.

Approach

This book is a step-by-step tutorial filled with practical examples which will show readers how to configure and manage IaaS and DBaaS with Oracle Enterprise Manager.

Who this book is for

If you are a cloud administrator or a user of self-service provisioning systems offered by Enterprise Manager, this book is ideal for you. It will also help administrators who want to understand the chargeback mechanism offered by Enterprise Manager.

An understanding of the basic building blocks of cloud computing such as networking, virtualization, storage, and so on, is needed by those of you interested in this book.

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

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Setting Up Enterprise Manager

Setting up Software Library

Setting up the storage location

The OMS Agent Filesystem location

The OMS Shared Filesystem location

Referenced file location

Discovering and adding targets

Automatic discovery and promotion

Adding targets manually

Creating a database instance for Enterprise Manager

Running Prerequisite Kit scripts from Software Kit

Summary

2. Infrastructure as a Service

The Oracle VM Manager setup and registration

Discovering Oracle VM Manager

Virtual Server discovery

Networking

Generating MAC addresses

Creating and configuring VLAN groups

Creating networks

Creating a network profile

Configuring storage servers

Registering a file server

Registering the storage array

Creating a storage repository

Presenting storage repositories

Creating and configuring virtual server pools

Monitoring and administering IaaS

The Infrastructure Cloud Home page

The Oracle Virtual Machine Manager home page

View and manage virtualization targets

The Virtual Server Pool Home page

Editing virtual servers

Maintaining a virtual server

Setting up the IaaS self-service portal

Setting up machine sizes

Modify provisioning request settings

Modifying roles

Modifying software components

Summary

3. Database as a Service

Setting up the PaaS infrastructure

Creating PaaS Zones

Provisioning the database

Managing storage servers

Registering storage servers

Synchronizing storage servers

Creating database pools

Database service templates

SnapClone profile-based database service templates

Chargebacks

Creating or changing Universal charge plans

Creating an Extended charge plan

Usage and charge trends

Summary

4. Enterprise Monitoring

Monitoring concepts

Events and actions

Corrective actions

Monitoring templates

Notifications

Incident management

Incidents

Rules and rulesets

Responding to incidents

Summary

5. Cloud APIs

Using Enterprise Manager Cloud APIs and CLIs

Enterprise Manager IaaS APIs

Enterprise Manager DBaaS APIs

Chargeback EMCLIs

Summary

Index

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

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Credits

Author

Ved Antani

Reviewers

Stuart Murray

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About the Author

Ved Antani started programming on IBM PC-AT using QBasic and Pascal. He has 10000 hours of practice using several programming languages such as Java, Python, and Erlang. He spends quite a lot of time writing middleware and massively scalable game servers. When not trying to prove someone wrong on the Internet, Ved enjoys functional programming on Erlang or Elixir. Ved wishes he were a classical pianist and not a software engineer. He currently works as Technical Director with Electronic Arts.

I would like to thank my parents and my wife Meghna for their support and making sure I get constant supply of caffeine. I would also like to thank my two year old son, Utsav, for not destroying the laptop on which this text was written.

About the Reviewers

Stuart Murray has worked internationally in the IT industry for over 25 years, helping clients derive value from their investments. His experience re-architecting the IT service departments of client organizations has led to the alignment of IT with the business and has made the provision of services significantly more effective and efficient.

With experience leading engagements in business architecture, application architecture, data architecture, and technology architecture as well as process re-engineering, Stuart has created...

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