oracle compute cloud service vs. amazon web services ec2 - a hands-on showdown

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Oracle Compute Cloud Service vs. Amazon Web Services EC2

A Hands-On Review

BGOUG Spring 2017 Conference Hotel RIU Pravets Resort

Saturday, June 3, 2017 12:30 - 13:30

Hall C

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Agenda

1. Introduction

2. Cloud Concepts

3. Live Provisioning Demo: Oracle Compute Cloud Service

4. Live Provisioning Demo: Amazon Web Services EC2

5. Summary


About Me

Ahmed Aboulnaga @Ahmed_Aboulnaga

18+ years Oracle experience

Oracle ACE, OCE, OCA

Author, Blogger, Presenter, Tweeter


About Raastech

Small systems integrator founded in 2009

Headquartered in the Washington DC area

Specializes in Oracle Fusion Middleware

Oracle Gold Partner

Oracle SOA Specialized


Cloud Concepts: IaaS

IaaS = Infrastructure as a Service = Server + Storage + Network

No need to invest in hardware up front

Develop and deploy applications faster

Scale up or down as needed


Cloud Concepts: History of Virtualization

Provisioning a single physical server took months

Physical resources were often underutilized

Virtualization helped:

Reduce provisioning time

Maximize physical resources

Introduce concepts such as cloning and snapshots


Cloud Concepts

Cloud != Virtualization


Why Cloud is not Virtualization

On demand resources

Rapidly provisioned (i.e., self-service provisioning)

Minimal management

Elastic (i.e., workload management)

Measured service (i.e., metering and chargeback)


Oracle Compute Cloud Service

Unoriginal name

Can be metered or non-metered

Can use VirtualBox images as templates


Amazon Web Services EC2

EC2 = Elastic Compute Cloud (get it?)

Scalable computing capacity in the AWS cloud


Oracle Cloud


Amazon Web Services


Recap

Live demo walked through:

Creating an instance

Configuring firewall

Installing required packages

Configuring host

Installing VNC Server


Summary

Why we moved from AWS EC2 to Oracle Compute Cloud:

Relatively easy migration (simple backup & restore)

Apache needed to be relinked due to library version difference

Yes, it was 25% more expensive, but:

Comparable CPU count

Non-metered

2x memory

20x storage

Oracle Cloud Support

Dedicated Cloud Success Manager


Gotchas

Some things that were new to me in Oracle Compute Cloud:

Firewall rule groupings

The concept of orchestrations

Persistent boot disks and its impact on snapshots

Additional cost required for Solaris support


Negatives

Unresponsive UI

Confusing firewall management screens

Oracle Marketing

Confusing account access across ‘My Account’ and ‘My Services’

and ‘Oracle Account’

Inconsistent UI across cloud services

Oracle Cloud Support

Bad


Blog References

Provisioning an Oracle Compute Cloud instance from scratch

http://blog.raastech.com/2016/06/tutorial-provisioning-oracle-compute.html

Mounting a storage volume on an Oracle Compute Cloud Linux instance

http://blog.raastech.com/2016/09/mounting-storage-volume-on-oracle.html

Default 'root' passwords for Oracle Compute Cloud instances

http://blog.raastech.com/2016/10/default-root-passwords-for-oracle-cloud.html

Creating an Oracle Database Cloud Service in under 40 minutes

http://blog.raastech.com/2016/06/creating-oracle-database-cloud-service.html

Configure Oracle SQL Developer to connect to an Oracle Database Cloud Service instance

http://blog.raastech.com/2016/06/configure-oracle-sql-developer-to.html

Creating an Oracle Storage Cloud Service

http://blog.raastech.com/2016/06/creating-oracle-storage-cloud-service.html

Cannot access the Oracle Database Cloud Service consoles (e.g., DBaaS Monitor)

http://blog.raastech.com/2016/06/cannot-access-oracle-database-cloud.html

Unable to request an Authentication Token when calling the Oracle Storage Cloud Service REST API

http://blog.raastech.com/2016/06/unable-to-request-authentication-token.html

You must first create an Oracle Database Cloud Service with a backup destination before creating a SOA Cloud Service instance

http://blog.raastech.com/2016/07/you-must-first-create-oracle-database.html

Provisioning an AWS instance for general Oracle software

http://blog.raastech.com/2015/07/provisioning-aws-instance-for-general.html






























































































Contact Information

Ahmed Aboulnaga

Technical Director

@Ahmed_Aboulnaga

[email protected]


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