Database Support: Exalogic vDC Management

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Exalogic vDC Management - Part 5

Verifying the vDC

The Cloud Admin will verify the vDC, after the Cloud Users have performed their actions. The Cloud Admin can verify and monitor the vNets and Storage available in the vDC, as well as the CPU allocation, the memory allocation, and the storage allocation. Then the Cloud Admin can look at the usage metrics to see how much of the allocated resources are boing used.

To verify the vDC:

-> Firstly you must log into the Exalogic Control as the Cloud Admin User.

-> Move to the left navigation pane. Click on “vDC Management”, under the vDCs, find and click on the name of the default vDC, in your Exalogic machine.

The “Dashboard” tab is displayed in the central pane.

Under the “Resource Allocation” tab, you will find graphical views of the CPU, Memory, and Storage resources that have been allocated to the accounts in the vDC. Under the “Resource Usage” tab, you will find details on the CPU resource usage, Memory resource usage, and Storage resource usage.

-> Click on the “Networks” tab on the top navigation pane. Under “Application Internal Networks”, you can view all the private vNets.

-> Click on the “Storage” tab on the top navigation pane. Here you can view information about the allocation and usage of storage in the vDC. For example you can view information about the vServers root disks, vServers block starage, and the vServers storage allocation.

Logging Out of Exalogic Control

It is always good practice to logout of the Exalogic Control after completing a series of tasks. The logout link is on the right hand side top corner of the Exalogic Control BUI.

Creating and Managing Exalogic vDC Resources

There are a number of broad categories in this process:

-> Logging in as a Cloud User.

-> Examining Cloud Users Account information.

-> Updating and registering a Server template.

-> Creating Private vNets.

-> Creating Distribution Groups.

-> Creating Volumes.

-> Creating vServers.

-> Managing high availability of vServers.

-> Detaching Volumes from a vServer.

-> Creating a Snapshot from a Volume.