Saturday, June 8, 2013

Exalogic vDC Management - Part 4


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 4
Adding Users to an Account
Adding cloud users to the Account and granting the privileges to use the resources allocated to the Account; can be done while you create the account, or after you have created the Account.

To add Cloud users after creating an Account, you can follow these steps:
-> On the left navigation panel, click on “vDC Management”.  Under thevDCs, you can click on the default vDC in your Exalogic machine.  Then you can click on the “Accounts” option.  Or you could have just gone to the “Accounts” tab on the top navigation bar.  The “Accounts” page is displayed.

-> Select the Account that you want to work with, for example “Dept1”.

-> On the “Actions” pane, click on “Add Users”.  The “Add Users” wizard is displayed.  On this screen is a list of available Cloud Users on the left, and a list of already assigned Could users on the right hand side.

-> Select the Cloud Users that you would like to assign to the Account, and move them to the Assigned users on the right hand side, by clicking on the right arrow icon.

-> Click on the “Next” button to view the summary screen.

-> Review the Summary screen, and when you are ready, you can click on the “Finish” button to add the Cloud User to the Account

Assigning Networks to an Account
As the Cloud Admin user, you can assign networks like for example Ethernet over InfiniBand (EoIB) to an Account, by following the below steps:
-> In the navigation pane on the left, click on the “vDC Management”.  When you get the list of vDCs in your Exalogic machine, you can click on the name of the default vDC.  Then you select the Account listed under the list of Accounts in your default vDC.

-> Then you must right click on this Account, and choose the “Update Account” option.  The “Update Account” wizard is displayed.

-> On the “Specify Account Details” screen, click on the “Next” button to continue.  The “Specify Account Resource Limits” screen is dislayed.

-> Select the check box that corresponds to the required network type, from the list of Public Networks Resource Limits section.  For example you may have selected “External EoIB Network”.  
In the Limit field, you must specify the number of IP addresses to be allocated from the available addresses.   When you are satisfied, then you can click on the “Next” button.  The Summary screen is displayed.

-> You must review the information in the summary.  For example you must verify that it includes assigned networks under the section “Newly Assigned Public Networks”.

-> Click on the “Finish” button.

Examining the vDC
After performing Cloud Administration tasks, then you should examine the Virtual data Center (vDC) in your Exalogic machine:
-> IN the left navigation pane, you can click on “vDC Management”.  Under the vDCs, you click on the name of the default vDC, in your Exalogic machine.  The vDC Dashboard is displayed in the middle pane of the screen.

-> To examine the Accounts in the vDC, you click on the “Accounts” tab.  On this tab you can view the newly created Accounts.

-> You can examine the networks in the default vDC, by clicking on the “Networks’ tab.  You can continue by clicking on the “Network Configuration” tab, to view the network configuration.  The network configuration page will show you the network infrastructure, for example the public external networks, and the application internal networks in the vDC.   
You can click on the “Network Allocation” tab to view the network allocation details.  Here you will be able to look at the allocation of public IP addresses and the virtual networks (vNets), that have been defined in the vDC.  

Franz Devantier,
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devantierf@gmail.com

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