Database Support: Exalogic Introduction

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Exalogic Introduction

Understanding Exalogic Control

Exalogic control provides a comprehensive set of features and tools to interact with and manage the Exalogic Virtual Data Center (vDC). The following broad areas are involved. Exalogic Machine Management, Exalogic vDC management, Exalogic Cloud user Abstraction, Exalogic Control user interfaces.

Overview

The Exalogic Control works with the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software platform to deliver an extendible cloud management solution on the Exalogic machine. The Exalogic Control is a software management stack that provides onboard capabilities for the Exalogic machine, and vDC management and monitoring.

Exalogic Control offers interfaces for interacting with the Exalogic platform to configure, monitor, and utilize its machine and virtual data center (vDC) resources. Exalogic Control enables other applications and management tools to interact with the Exalogic platform, using the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) API’s, that are provided.

Introduction to Exalogic Machine Management

Exalogic Control offers hardware monitoring capabilities, as well as management capabilities that are specific to the defined Exalogic machine hardware. This is all available from two different points of view:

-> Monitoring and managing individual components in the Exalogic machine.

-> Documented and known relationships between the different hardware components.

Exalogic Control has a Browser User Interface (BUI), which provides Exalogic specific photorealistic views, which present detailed diagnostic information, in a manner that is specific to context, and location of the hardware components. BUI does not show the assets as a collection of discovered hardware components. bUI shows the Exalogic machine as an asset.

You will need the Exalogic Systems Admin role, in order to perform the management tasks offered by Exalogic Control. Tasks like:

-> Photorealistic visualization

-> Exalogic machine rack as a top-level asset

-> Exalogic fabric and multi-rack relationship

-> Monitoring and alerting

-> Physical fabric or network

-> Fault detection and management

-> Support request management with My Oracle Support

-> Hardware replacement lifecycle

-> Exalogic system reports

Introduction to Exalogic vDC Management

You can administer the Exalogic vDC and its resources with the Exalogic Control.

-> Management of the Exalogic fabric. This constitutes the vDC.

-> Configuration and management of the vDC.

-> Monitoring of the vDC resources

-> Public network configuration (EolB)

-> partition key (p-key) allocation and tracking.

-> Creation and setup of accounts in the vDC.

-> Resource Quota management

-> Network resource allocation

-> Storage resource allocation

Exalogic Cloud User Abstractions

Exalogic cloud user tasks are performed by users with the Cloud User Role. Exalogic control provides the Cloud User with an IaaS abstraction for provisioning application deployments to the cloud. These are some of the features offered by Exalogic cloud for user with the Cloud User Role.

-> Ability to provision customer applications into the Exalogic vDC.

-> Web service and Command Line Interface (CLI) interfaces.

-> Virtual machine (vServer) configuration

-> Virtual machine (vServer) lifecycle and control

-> Allocation and management of resources, such as private vNets, Volumes, and external IP.

-> Dynamic private network creation.

-> Public network binding

Exalogic Control User Interfaces

Exalogic Control provides the following management user interfaces.

-> Browser User Interface (BUI), for machine management, vDC management, and cloud user tasks.

-> IaaS API’s

-> Command Line Interface (CLI) for cloud