Grid DBA

HP has opened up beta testing of their public cloud service - HP Cloud Services for a couple of months now, and I was lucky enough to be selected as an early private beta tester. HP Cloud Services is built on the open source cloud platform OpenStack and provides the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model of cloud computing. This post will just highlight my experiences with HP Cloud Services so far from the point of view of an Oracle DBA. Setup There are a couple of ways to access the HP Cloud resources. First there is the web-based management console that allows you to do basic administration. Here you can view, create and modify your compute instances and object storage. It also allows you to view your account keys, security IDs and other pertinent information needed to access and control your resources. Then there is the Unix command line interface ( CLI ) which is my preferred method of accessing and using HP Cloud. In addition, you can use RESTful APIs to access HP Cloud Co...

There has been a lot of talk in the ubiquitous cloud space recently and more specifically the PaaS service delivery model. Naturally this piqued my curiosity. How does the database fit in the cloud? Just about every major enterprise vendor is jumping on the cloud bandwagon. And rightfully so. Private clouds are now being pushed by Oracle with Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Exadata, IBM with SmartCloud and VMware with Cloud Foundry just to mention a few. Amazon AWS and Rackspace are the major players in the public cloud stratosphere. Add to this community Clouds like OpenStack The easiest to do an evaluation is by using Amazon AWS public cloud services. Amazon AWS provides Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL and Oracle Database 11g. Strictly speaking EC2 is a Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) delivery model. However, the use of AMIs enable PaaS characteristics where complete environments can be easily packaged and deployed in EC2. There are several publicly available Oracle Da...