Accessing Oracle Storage Cloud Service Instance !!!

Oracle Storage cloud services is one of the mandatory service to have from Oracle Cloud Services Stack to provision any other Oracle cloud services e.g. Oracle SOA Cloud Services and Oracle Database Cloud Service. Unfortunately, Oracle does not provide any graphical tool to manage the Oracle Storage regular operation such as creating/updating/deleting containers and objects. In order to perform all these operations Oracle has recommended below three approaches -

1)      Using Rest API (cURL)

2)      Using Java Library

3)      Using Oracle Storage Cloud Software Appliance (oracle command based tool)

Fortunately, there is freeware tool “CloudBerry Explorer for OpenStack Stroage” from a company called ”CloudBerry Lab”, using which we can access Oracle Storage cloud service graphically, resulting ease of accessibility of storage and perform all sort of basic operation e.g. creating/deleting containers and objects

This post will walk through how to access of Oracle Storage Cloud Services via CloudBerry Explorer graphical tool as well as cURL command based tool.

Installing “CloudBerry Explorer for OpenStack Stroage” tool and accessing Oracle Storage cloud Service

Step1:

Download  “CloudBerry Explorer for Openstack storage” tool from below URL -

http://www.cloudberrylab.com/free-openstack-storage-explorer.aspx

Step2:

Oracle Database Cloud Service Provisioning on the fly !!!

Oracle Database Cloud Service Provisioning on the fly !!!

Oracle Database Cloud - Database as a Service provides you the ability to create service instances that contain Oracle databases, with each service instance containing a single Oracle database. You have full access to the features and operations available with Oracle Database, but with Oracle providing the computing power, physical storage and (optionally) tooling to simplify routine database maintenance and management operations.

When you create service instances, Database as a Service creates compute nodes to host the database, using computing and storage resources provided by Oracle Compute Cloud Service. Additionally, it provides access to the compute nodes (and thus to the database) using networking resources provided by Oracle Compute Cloud Service.

Please follow below simple steps to provision Oracle DB instance on cloud as service –

Step1:

Login into Oracle cloud services account using the credentials which you have received from oracle for your cloud subscription and access “Oracle Database Cloud Service Console” as highlighted in snap

Step2: