Friday, June 7, 2013

Exalogic vDC Management - Part 3


Dear Readers,

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 3
Establishing Cloud Accounts
Establishing Cloud Accounts in the vDC, involves creating Cloud Users and Cloud Accounts.

Creating Accounts for Cloud Users
For example to create a Cloud Account “Account1” for “User1”, and “Account2” for “User2”, you can follow these steps:
1.) Login to the Exalogic Control as the Cloud admin user.
2.) ON the left Navigation pane, click on “vDC Management”.  Under vDCs, click on the name of the default vDC in your Exalogic machine from the list of vDCs.  Now click on the “Accounts” tab on the top navigation bar, or just click on “Accounts”.  The “Accounts” page is displayed.  Click on the “+” icon to start the “Create Account Wizard”.
3.) In the “Specify Account Details” window, you fill in the fields, for example:
Name: Dept1
Description: Account for Dept1



4.) Click on the “Next” button.  The “Specify Account Resource Limits” screen is displayed.  The Account Resource Limits represent the sum total of all resources that are available to all of the users that will execute in the context of the Account, in this case “dept1”.



5.) You must now enter values for the following fields:
-> vCPU: This field should take an integer value, for example a value of 20 may be appropriate, because this is for the account resource limit.
-> Memory: You can enter a value in Giga-Bytes, which again could be reasonably high, for example: 100 GB.
-> Storage: Again you want to define the storage in Giga-Bytes, which can be reasonably high, because the Exalogic machine has very high total specs, for example: 2000 GB.
-> Number of private vNets: Again this is a number value that can range from 0 to 4096.  If you imagine that about 12 should be more than enough, you can enter a value of 12 here.

While you are entering this information, it is very important to look at the box in the middle of the screen with the heading “Resource Quota Information”.  Make sure that you don’t oversubscribe any of the resources.  The important thing here is to provide appropriate values, and to do proper planning to facilitate the smooth growth of your Exalogic investment.

-> Public Networks Resource Limits:  This table is at the bottom of the screen.  Under here you will find the public networks that are available in the vDC listed.  You need to select the Public Networks that you need to be accessible by the users of the account (Dept1).  On the right hand side of the table, in the “Limit” column, you can specify the number of IP addresses to be allocated from the “Available Addresses” column.

6.) When you are finished, then click on the “Next” button.   The “Assign Users” screen is displayed.


Select the users from the “Available Cloud Users” in the left hand pane, and click on the Arrow icon, to move them across to the “Assigned Cloud Users” in the right hand pane.  After the account creation, you can add additional Cloud users to the Account.

7.) Click on the “Next” button, the “Summary” screen is displayed.

8.) When you have finished reviewing the Summary, then you can click on the “Finish” button to create the Account, for example “Dept1”.

9.) You can continue to create additional accounts, which will be listed under the “Account” on the left navigation pane.  You can also click on the “Accounts” tab on the top navigation bar, to verify that the new Accounts are created and listed.

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

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