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Nine years ago when I’m as System Engineer, I still remember on my 1st experience on deploying Oracle 9 on Red Hat for 21 sites. Today we can do the same on Windows Azure and Hyper-V.
Oracle has finally certified its product to run on Hyper-V and Windows Azure. Here is the license software running in the Windows Azure cloud computing environment. You have an options to
a) create a VM and install your own copy of Oracle Software
b) Create a VM from Windows Azure Gallery with Oracle installed.
Click
Select Compute | Virtual Machine | From Gallery
Step 1:- select VM image
List of Oracle Software from Windows Azure Gallery
Oracle now also offers Oracle Linux, Oracle Linux with Oracle Database, and Oracle Linux with WebLogic Server in the Windows Azure image gallery for customers who are licensed to use these products.
Step 2:- Select VM Configuration
Step 3: Select VM Configuration
Oracle software VMs are currently in preview. During the preview period, Microsoft charge only for the Windows Server VMs that the Oracle software runs on, not for the Oracle software itself.
For more information, refer to Oracle Support Policy here.
In this post, we are going to explore on how easy to manage Starwind Storage by using VMM 2012 R2. The solution offered by VMM allowed us to use SMI-S Standard to perform automatic storage management.
Products :-
During testing, I have found the process of register Starwind SMI-S provider is much more easier compare to previous version with the help of GUI (execute command StarWindSMISConfigurator)
Step 1: Register StarWind SMI-S Storage
1st step is connect Starwind SMI-S storage. Make sure you have install the SMI-S Provider and configure using command StarWindSMISConfigurator. To connect use VMM Console, click on Fabric | Storage | Add Resources | Storage Devices.
A Storage Devices Wizard pop up. Select “SAN and NAS devices discovered and managed by a SMI-S provider.
Do select Protocol:- SMI-S CIMXML, enter IP Address of the storage and Run As account. (remember to enable authentication on starwind iSCSI by setting enableAuthentication=true) in cimserver_planned.conf , create a local account and enter following command “cimuser –a –u (username) –w (password) . Note:- use the local account that you have created)
If the wizard successful to connect to provider, it will display all available disk array.
Select pool to be assigned to VMM and assign Storage Classification
Review the summary and click Finish to add the Array
Step 2:- Create LUN
Next step is create a logical unit. Click Create Logical Unit
Select storage pool, enter the LUN name and the size
On the classfication, you will be able to view the storage pool and LUN that you have created.
On Starwind Management Console
On Starwind iSCSI version 8, the GUI has been reworked to simplify user experience.
Note:- use Starwind Mangement Console and check if LUN has created by VMM
Step 3: Allocate Storage Pool and LUN
VMM allow you to allocate storage pool and logical unit to different Hyper-V host. Let start to assign storage pool and LUN by click on the icon Allocate capacity on the toolbar
Select your target Hyper-V host group
Step 4: Connecting LUN to Hyper-V Host
Once storage pool and LUN has allocated, the next step is connecting LUN to Hyper-V Host.
Go to the Properties of Hyper-V Host, select Storage, Click Add and select “Add iSCSI Array”.
Note:- Make sure iSCSI services on the Hyper-V Host is started before proceed with next step.
Then enter the iscsi session that you would like to create on the Hyper-V Host. Select entry as highlighted.
Once you click Create, an iSCSI Target entry is created. To verify, open Hyper-V host iscsi initiator properties.
From here you will notice that we are using VMM to create an iscsi connection.
As array has been added. the next step is add a disk to Hyper-V host
Select LUN, format the disk and assign mount point. Example:- Z
Now you have an additional storage presented to your Hyper-V Server. With SMI-S provider support in Starwind iSCSI SAN, you can perfom operation on VMM Console without using Starwind Management Console and hence simplify administration.
Calling Beta Tester, are you interested to be the 1st to test StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS V8?
Beta 1 - available now!
I’ve sign up and will start my testing soon. Hope you will join us as well to test the product.
This post is part 4 of previous post where by we have use tenant portal to manage a provision VM. In this post we are going to move forward on our VM services and offer an additional services :- Database hosting services. With Windows Azure Pack, we can allow tenant to subscribe either MySQL or SQL database.
For Service provider, we encourage them to setup high availability database by configure
a) Windows Clustering and use MySQL Enterprise Edition
b) Windows Clustering and use SQL Always ON, Mirroring or SQL Cluster.
Once database has setup, Service provider can use Admin Portal to configure mapping to SQL Server or MySQL connection so Tenant can request for database services.
After configure the connection, do remember to add an additional services to existing / new Plan. Refer to previous post on how to create new plan.
Let check out on how Tenant subscribe database services.
Tenant Portal
After added Database into the plan, you will be able to see SQL and MySQL on the navigation pane (on the right)
Create SQL database
Click on +NEW | SQL Server Databases | Create Database
A wizard will prompt to enter database settings, enter your database name and click Next
Enter your database credential and click Tick (to create the database)
Create MySQL Database
Repeat the same process. Click on +NEW | MYSQL Server Databases | Create Database
A wizard will prompt to enter database settings, enter your database name and click Next
Enter your database credential and click Tick (to create the database)
Verification
It will take a while for the database to be created. Once complete, you will be able to view from the portal
SQL Server
Select the database and you will able to perform the following action.
View info – view the database settings. Your Tenant can use this settings to connect application to hosted database.
Delete – to remove the database
Change password – change the database admin password
Resize – Change the size of the database. Scroll to increase your database size (if quota allow)
MySQL Server
Select the database and you will able to perform the following action.
View info – view the database settings. Your Tenant can use this settings to connect application to hosted database.
Delete – to remove the database
Change password – change the database admin password
Let have a look on the backend database
SQL Server
Connect to SQL database using SQL Management Studio
MySQL Server
Connect to MySQL database using MySQL Workbench
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