Building the Oracle Cloud with Enterprise Manager 12c presents a solid introduction to creating and managing a cloud computing infrastructure built around Oracle Database and Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c.
You'll learn about the Consolidation Planner and its use in the initial planning of your cloud. Then you'll learn to create and configure the following cloud types: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Database as a Service (DBaaS) Schema as a Service (SCaaS) Platform as a Service (PaaS)
As part of configuring these cloud types, you'll learn about self-service provisioning how to let your clients do your work for you. Author Porus Havewala also goes over the topics of metering and chargeback. These feature sets are critical to cloud computing because they allow you to allocate costs properly to your cloud clients.
The book next moves into Oracle's Real User Experience Insight tool, and its role in monitoring your systems in ways that provide you with a good sense of how your customers perceive those systems. This approach to monitoring is essential if you plan to have satisfied cloud computing clients. A chapter is also included on managing packaged Oracle Applications such as E-Business Suite, Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Fusion Applications with Enterprise Manager. Finally, you'll learn about setting up and managing database backups with Enterprise Manager, and setting up and managing database standbys with Enterprise Manager. Controlling these essential DBA activities from Enterprise Manager is essential in cloud-based environments.
