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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

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About Me

Ahmed Aboulnaga @Ahmed_Aboulnaga

18+ years Oracle experience

Oracle ACE, OCE, OCA

Author, Blogger, Presenter, Tweeter

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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

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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

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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

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Cloud Concepts

Cloud != Virtualization

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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)

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Oracle Compute Cloud Service

Unoriginal name

Can be metered or non-metered

Can use VirtualBox images as templates

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Amazon Web Services EC2

EC2 = Elastic Compute Cloud (get it?)

Scalable computing capacity in the AWS cloud

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Oracle Cloud

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Amazon Web Services

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Recap

Live demo walked through:

Creating an instance

Configuring firewall

Installing required packages

Configuring host

Installing VNC Server

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Contact Information

Ahmed Aboulnaga

Technical Director

@Ahmed_Aboulnaga

ahmed.aboulnaga@raastech.com

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Q&A