Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Exalogic vDC Management - Part 1


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My name is Franz Devantier, creator of this blog.  I am an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP DBA 11g) Security DBA.  I will be sharing with you the basic duties of an Oracle DBA, and also some of the undocumented, and not so well known tasks. 


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Exalogic vDC Management -  Part 1
Exalogic Virtual Data Center (vDC) Management: Basic Tasks
There are a number of basic tasks related to the Exalogic Virtual Data Center (vDC), the management of which is performed through the browser user interface (BUI) of Exalogic Control.

Logging In as Cloud Admin User
Log in to the Exalogic Control console as the Cloud Admin user.

Examining the Default vDC
Once you are logged in you can examine the default Virtual Data Center (vDC) in your Exalogic machine as follows:
1.) From the left navigation pane, click “vDC Management”.  Under the vDCs, click on the name of the default vDC in your Exalogic machine.  The vDC dashboard will be displayed.  The Exalogic machine has only one default vDC.

2.) Now you can view the vDC dashboard which is the middle pane on the screen.  (MyCloud – Virtual Datacenter)


3.) You can examine the networks in the default vDC, by clicking the Networks tab.  You will then see the network configuration and the network allocation if you click the displayed Network Configuration and Network Allocation tabs, respectively.

The Network Configuration page will show you the network infrastructure, public external networks, and application or internal private networks in the vDC.  The Network Allocation page will also show you the allocation of public IP addresses and virtual networks (vNets) in the vDC.

4.) To view the information about the storage infrastructure in the vDC, you can click “Storage”, which is on the top navigation bar.

5.) You can examine the Oracle VM Server pools in the vDC, by clicking on “Server Pools” in the top navigation bar.

5. Examine the Oracle VM Server pools in the vDC by clicking Server Pools on the
top navigation bar.  The server pools are configured in the Exalogic machine by Exalogic Control by default.

6.) On the top navigation bar you will see “vServer Types”, which you can click on in order to examine the vServer types.

You can create a new vServer type, by completing a few steps:
-> Form the left navigation pane, click on “vDC Management”.  Under vDCs, click on the name of your vDC.  The vDC dashboard will be displayed.
-> From the “Operate” menu on the right hand “Actions”pane, click on “Create vServer Type”.  You will see the vServer Type wizard displayed.
-> Fill in the blank fields, for example: Name, Description, and Tags for the new server type.
-> Click on the Next button.
    The Configure vServer Type screen is displayed.
-> Here you can specify, the Memory Size in GB, and the Number of vCPUs.  When you have everything the way you want it, you can click on the “Next” button.
   The Summary screen will be displayed.
-> Verify that you are happy with the settings on the summary page and click on the “Finish” button.
-> You can verify the newly created vServer type.  Click on the “vServer Types” tab on the top navigation pane.  The newly created vServer Type will be listed with the other vServer Types.

7.) You can examine all the incidents in the vDC by clicking on the “Incidents” tab in the top navigation bar.  In this tab, you will be able to view all the incidents and alerts for the entire vDC.

8.) You can examine all the current and/or historical jobs by clicking on the “Jobs” tab on the top navigation bar.

 Franz Devantier,
Need a database health check, or a security audit?
devantierf@gmail.com

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