An Oracle White Paper August 2013 Advanced Uses of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c

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Advanced Uses of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c

Advanced Uses of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Executive Overview In the modern business environment, many organizations depend on IT to deliver always on systems and mission-critical services. But behind the scenes, IT organizations are coping with more and more complexity than ever before—complexity from growing data volumes, to composite applications, to virtualization and the cloud. Managing all these systems and services 24x7, in a global environment is one monumental challenge and constant battle for IT. However, help is at hand. Today Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, Oracle’s flagship enterpriseclass...

Advanced Uses of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c the leading providers of business applications and the middleware that many of your custom applications are built on top of, Oracle offers a cloud solution that is optimized for business services. With this in mind, Oracle’s approach starts with management capabilities that are built right into applications and infrastructure. Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c provides an integrated and seamless console that gives IT departments better business visibility and comprehensive insight right across the entire cloud stack. This integration enables IT to gain...

Advanced Uses of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c In the early years of the 21 century, Oracle introduced Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control as its flagship Enterprise Management product. Grid Control featured a freshly redesigned interface and architecture, and was primarily intended to assist DBAs with their database management and monitoring tasks. This was achieved through the streamlining and automation of day-to-day DBA activities such as performance diagnosis and tuning, setting up and scheduling RMAN database backups, and setting up and managing Oracle Active Data Guard. Other capabilities...

Advanced Uses of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c transactions on services across a service bus, and can be used to set up the entire infrastructure for the cloud—whether the cloud is infrastructure as a service (IaaS), database as a service (DBaaS), schema as a service (Schema-aaS) or middleware as a service (MWaaS)—the latter three forming Oracle’s offering of platform as a service (PaaS). Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c also enables you to build a private cloud, deliver services in private cloud via its self-service portal, and manage the private cloud, including metering and chargeback. The DBaaS...

Advanced Uses of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c However, while fine for proof of concept purposes, this is the wrong approach for production use. The main working component engine of Oracle Enterprise Manager is the Oracle Management Service (OMS). This is a J2EE application previously deployed on Oracle Application Server, and now on Oracle WebLogic Server. As a result, only limited scalability would be achieved if all Oracle Enterprise Manager components were placed on a single server. Doing this limits use to one Java Machine process with its inherent limits of memory and processor speed. If...

Advanced Uses of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Oracle Enterprise Manager Architecture for Large Deployments. We should note at this point that the internal firewalls illustrated in the diagram are not necessary and may or may not be present, depending on the internal network security policies in force in each large site. However, externally facing firewalls are normally present. In the case of Oracle Enterprise Manager being heavily used for the advanced tasks described in this white paper, performance scale-out could be more of a necessity on the management service level rather than the database...

Advanced Uses of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Load Balancing Oracle Enterprise Manager In the case of a large Oracle Enterprise Manager setup; an example of a large scale Cloud Control deployment would involve thousands of targets across multiple servers and tiers. For this architecture, three or more load balanced management servers should be included. We could use for this purpose as an example; a hardware load balancer—like F5 Networks’ BIG-IP Application Switch Load Balancer. Setting up the Load Balancer in the appropriate way and balancing requests from management servers is further discussed...

Advanced Uses of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c technology. Doing this simplifies the management of the disaster recovery site, because standby OMSs are no longer required to be manually updated following operations such as OMS patch applications, plug-in updates, or upgrades. For further information on these MAA concepts and techniques for Cloud Control, you can refer to Part VII: Configuring Oracle Enterprise Manager for High Availability included in the Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Administrator's Guide 12c Release 3 (12.1.0.3) from Oracle’s documentation library. You can also refer...

Advanced Uses of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Consolidation Planner The Consolidation Planner allows you to create consolidation projects and scenarios that are useful for planning purposes. Both physical to physical (P2P) and physical to virtual (P2V) cases are possible, along with multiple scenarios leading to the final recommendations and confidence level generated by the planner based on the mathematical calculations it has performed. Exadata Database Machines can be used as the destination servers, and in Enterprise Manager 12c Release 3 (released in July 2013),...