Monday, June 10, 2013

Exalogic vDC Management - Part 6


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 6
Examining Cloud User's Account Information
You must log into the Exalogic machine with your Cloud User credentials.
-> On the left navigation pane, click on “vDC Management”.  Under “vDC Accounts”, find the name of your Account and click on it, for example “Dept1”.  The vDC Account dashboard is displayed in the center pane.

-> View the vDC dashboard, and notice how there are tabs on the top with different types of information in them.



-> To examine the networks in your vDC Account, you can click on the “Networks” tab.  Then you can view the private vNets in your Account and their resource quota and limits.

-> To view the storage information, you click on the “Storage” tab on the top navigation bar.  Here you can view information about the storage resources and quotas in your Account.  Also information about the vServer root disks, Volumes, and Snapshots.

-> Click  on the “vServers” tab on the top navigation bar.  You will then see information related to the vServers and Distribution groups in your Account.

-> Click on “Server Templates” on the top navigation bar, to examine the Server Templates available in your Account.

-> Click on the “Incidents” tab on the top navigation bar.  Here you can view incidents and alerts on your Account.

-> Click on the “Jobs” tab on the top navigation bar.  Here you can examine current or historical jobs.

Uploading and Registering a Server Template
Server templates contain the configuration of an individual vServer with its virtual disk.  Templates can have the extension or format of .tgz, or .tar, or other file types.  In order to upload a server template from a network you can use HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP network protocols.  The network types that the template was on could include EolB networks, as long as this network is available  to the Ops Center Enterprise Controller VM.

You can follow these steps to upload a Server template to Exalogic Control.
1. On the left navigation pane, click on “vDC Management”.  Then you move to “vDC Accounts” and click on the name of your account, for example it could have been “Dept1”.  You will see th vDC dashboard displayed.
2. On the navigation bar at the top. Click on “Server Templates”.  The server templates in account “Dept1” will be displayed.
3. Under Server Templates, click on the “Upload Server Template” icon.  As an alternative you could have clicked on “Upload Server Template” below “Operate”, which would be available on the “Actions” pane.
The Upload Server Template wizard is displayed.



4. Bring the “Identify Server Template” screen up.  On this screen you can enter a name for the template, as well as a description.  It would make sense to add tags as well, to make it easier to find later on.
5. Click on the “Next” button, the “Specify Server Template Details” screen is displayed.



6. Next to “Image SubType” click on the “Template” radio button.
7. Next to the “Upload Source” click on the “URL” radio button.  Then you can go down to the “Server Template URL:” and enter the URL where the template is located.  When you are finished you can click on the “Next” button.
8. The Summary screen is displayed.  Review the summary, when you are satisfied, you can click on the “Upload” button.  You will see the Server Template listed with the others, on the left navigation pane under “Server Template”.
9. You can also click on “Server Templates” on the top navigation bar.  You will see the Server Templates listed, and the one you have just uploaded should also be there.

Making a Server Template Public
The server template is then available to the Cloud Users, that are assigned to the account that it was loaded into.  If you want to make it available to all the accounts, in the vDC, then you must make it into a Public Template.
1. From the left navigation pane, select “vDC Management”.
2. Under “vDCs”, expand “MyCloud”.
3. Now you can expand “Accounts”, and then select your account.
4. Now you can click on the “Server Templates” tab.
5. Click on the server template that you want to work on.  Then click on the “Register Server Template” icon.



6.  Clicking on “Register Template Server” is what changes the value of “Public” to Yes, A confirmation screen will come up, click on the “OK” button.



7. There should now be a “Yes” under the “Public” field.

9. If you decided to make this template private again, then you would select the template, and clidk on the “Unregister Server Template” icon, after this you just need to follow the recommendations to change it.

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

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