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THE INDUSTRY’S ONLY Oracle Enterprise Manager is Oracle’s integrated enterprise IT management product
COMPLETE SOLUTION FOR line, and provides the industry’s first complete cloud lifecycle management solution.
DATABASE CLOUD MANAGEMENT.
Oracle Enterprise Manager’s Business-Driven IT Management capabilities allow
you to quickly set up, manage and support enterprise clouds and traditional Oracle
KEY FEATURES
IT environments from applications to disk. Enterprise Manager allows customers to
• Consolidation Planning
achieve best service levels for traditional and cloud applications through
• Out-of-the-box Self Service Portal
management from a business perspective including for Oracle Fusion Applications,
• Enterprise Service Catalog
provide maximum return on IT management investment through the best solutions for
• Provisioning of Databases w/ Data
Guard, Schemas, and Pluggable
intelligent management of the Oracle stack and engineered systems and gain
Databases unmatched customer support experience through real-time integration of Oracle’s
• Data Cloning – Snap Clone and Full knowledgebase with each customer environment.
Clones
• Resource Management
Cloud Management
• Role-based Access and Quota
Management
Enterprise Cloud presents new management challenges. The 2010 IOUG Survey on Cloud
Computing states that a top benefit expected from private cloud adoption is “cost savings through
• Support for Virtual and Physical
Infrastructure standardization for operational efficiency.” The survey also states “In this survey, more than half of
• Metering and Chargeback
the “advanced” deployers (with more than 10 services) say their greatest challenge is adequately
provisioning server capacity to meet the new demands of the cloud,...” Oracle Enterprise Manager is
• RESTful API and CLI for
Programmatic Access
Oracle’s premiere cloud management solution. It is the industry’s first complete solution including
self-service provisioning balanced against centralized, policy-based resource management,
integrated chargeback and capacity planning and complete visibility of the physical and virtual
KEY BENEFITS environments from applications to disk.
• Reduce sprawl and improve
utilization by consolidating on fewer
Database as a Service (DBaaS)
servers
Oracle Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Database delivers capabilities spanning the entire
• Reduce DBA time by automating
deployment of standard database Database cloud lifecycle. It lets Cloud administrators identify pooled resources, configure role-based
and schema configurations access, define the service catalog, and the related chargeback plans. It allows Cloud users to request
• Reduce DBA time by automating database services, and consume them on-demand. It also allows for users to scale-up and down their
cloning of large databases platforms to adapt to changes in application traffic. Finally, it lets both parties to understand the
• Single console to manage entire costs of the service delivered, and establish accountability for consumption of resources.
Cloud lifecycle – plan, setup, deliver,
operate
• Prevent resource hogging by setting
quotas for individual users
• Forecast future resource needs by
analyzing trending reports
• Compute chargeback based on
performance and configuration
metrics
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Figure 1. Enterprise Cloud Lifecycle Management

Planning and Setup

The corner stone of cloud computing is standardization of software and configuration. A database
Service Catalog is a collection of standardized database service definitions that will help cloud users
to rapidly provision databases, while it will ensure that IT can limit the amount of configuration and
software pollution, and thus reduce administrative overhead associated with it.

To build a cloud, administrators must first understand what their existing resources are and their
utilization. Enterprise Manager automatically discovers their infrastructure and its topology, and
helps then understand the current workloads in the environment. Administrators can then use
Consolidation Planner capability to run different scenarios for redistributing workloads onto existing
systems or new environments (what if scenario), and determine if this will result in SLA violations.
These scenarios can be tested either on Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware or engineered
RELATED PRODUCTS systems like Exadata.
Oracle Cloud Management
The key benefit of cloud computing is to enable faster deployment of typical platforms by moving
Pack for Database delivers
maximum benefits when away from admin driven provisioning to end user driven. Enterprise Manager allows administrators
used with the following to pool resources, standardize and automate deployment processes, publish established templates to
Oracle products service catalog, setup role-based access and privileges, set quotas to limit over-consumption,
• Oracle Diagnostics Pack
establish policies for scale-up and scale-down, and retirement, and enable metering and optional
• Oracle Database Lifecycle chargeback on consumed resources.
Management Pack
Enterprise Manager supports multiple consolidation models for pooling resources. One can choose
to consolidate underlying infrastructure with server virtualization technologies or perform database
level consolidation by implementing Real Application Clusters (RAC) or by hosting multiple
application schemas within the same database, or make use of the Database 12c Multitenant option
to consolidate workloads using pluggable databases.

Self Service Application for instant provisioning

Enterprise Manager ships with an out-of-box Self-service portal that allows developers, testers,
DBAs, and other self service users to log on and request:

• New single instance (SI) and Real Application Clusters (RAC) databases using pre-
defined golden standards. This is ideal for developers asking for standard databases with
or without data.

• New single instance (SI) and Real Application Clusters (RAC) databases along with data
guard standby databases either within the same datacenter or across different geographical
regions. This is ideal for production and semi-production workloads that have high

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availability requirements.

• Logical databases to work with, which, under the hood, are schemas hosted in one or
more database, and provided as Schema-as-a-Service.

• Pluggable databases that are hosted in one or more Database 12c Multitenant container
databases, provided as Pluggable Database as a Service.

• Database thin clones, using Enterprise Manager 12c Snap Clone feature that leverages
storage Copy-on-Write (CoW) technology on Sun ZFS Storage Appliance and NetApp
Storage Appliance (Hardware solution), or Solaris ZFS file system (Software solution) for
storage agnostic support. The Snap Clone feature lets users of the database, such as
Functional QA, to create multiple copies of the database in minutes without consuming
additional space.

• Database full clones using RMAN Backups. This could be ideal for intense testing, such
as, database upgrades and performance testing on Exadata.

Additionally, self service users can perform lifecycle operations like start/stop, status and
health monitoring, etc on the requested databases and schemas. Provisioning can be done
on both physical infrastructure using Deployment Procedures and on an Oracle VM
virtualized server infrastructure using Virtual Assemblies and Virtual Templates. The
portal provides access to a service catalog which lists various published service templates
for standardized database configuration and versions. Users can review their past and
outstanding requests, resource quotas, current utilization as well as Chargeback
information for the databases and services they own. The portal also allows users to
automatically backup their databases on a daily basis or take on demand backups. User
can restore the database to any of these backups. The Self-service portal is the user’s view
into the Cloud, thus it is designed to be easy to use and yet useful. The portal is also
backed by CLI and API that can be used to request and manage cloud resources in lieu of
the user interface.

Figure 2. Enterprise Cloud Self Service Application

Metering and Chargeback

A critical aspect of Cloud delivery is the ability to establish usage cost for consuming cloud
resources, and metering actual usage to deliver Chargeback reports. Enterprise Manager provides
tools for defining detailed Chargeback plans spanning different metrics collected for each type of

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resources as well as defining Cost Centers for grouping costs across multiple developers.
Chargeback plans can use not only usage based costs, but also configuration-based costs (e.g.
version of the platform) or fixed costs (e.g. flat-rate management fee). Its extensibility features allow
users to meter and charge against any metric storage in Enterprise Manager 12c.

Chargeback has rich out of the box reports. Trending reports show how charge and resource
consumption varies over time, while Summary reports show the breakdown of charges or usage by
different dimensions such as Cost Center or Target Type. These reports help consumers in
understanding how their charges relate to their consumption and also assist the IT department with
budgeting and planning activities. With BI Publisher, the reports can be made available in a variety
of formats such as PDF, HTML, Word, Excel or PowerPoint.

Figure 3. Enterprise Cloud Chargeback Application

Performance and Availability Monitoring

One of the top concerns IT managers have before moving business critical applications to cloud is
performance and reliability of the application. Enterprise Manager provides a rich solution for
monitoring the health of resources in the cloud. Incident console allows administrators to view,
diagnose, and resolve incidents with the host, database or any other dependencies with the physical
or virtual infrastructure. Cloud administration console provides insight into resource flux, request
throughput, failure rates, and available resources. Trending reports show the variance in resource
consumption and thus allows for capacity planning for future needs.

Oracle Database as a Service with Enterprise Manager

Enterprise Manager provides the most comprehensive solution for rolling out an Oracle-based
Database as a Service Cloud for users in an enterprise. It offers the broadest and the most complete
set of capabilities to build, deploy and manage the end-to-end lifecycle of the cloud, all from a single
console. The pre-integrated solution ensures that you can leverage the Cloud without having to learn
a heap of non-standard languages and technologies, ensuring continuity of skills for the enterprise.

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