Database Reference
In-Depth Information
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The Chargeback module is and can be a powerful tool for an IT department. With the capacity to implement
charge plans and cost centers, and then apply them to targets and provide reports to end users, the Chargeback
module is a necessity for any cloud environment.
Optimizing the Cloud
The cloud infrastructure and the applications deployed on that infrastructure need to be optimized for performance,
energy efficiency, user experience, and operational costs. Rich cloud management functionalities of Oracle Enterprise
Manager help you rediscover assets, review application performance, and fine-tune various phases of the cloud
lifecycle based on the information and intelligence collected during ongoing operations of the cloud. Starting
from the setup phase—where you can scale up or down the machine sizes, change the quota or zone assignment,
or fine-tune the policy for cloud resources—enterprises can decide to make changes to applications within an
assembly or in the deployment of cloud resources in order to optimize the cloud. Enterprise Manager also provides a
rich performance management database that provides a historical view of cloud performance to help you optimize it.
Chapter 9 covers performance pages and optimization in more detail. Capabilities of the operating systems, database,
and middleware layers help in continuous optimization of the cloud environment.
Throughout this chapter, we have talked about the many lifecycle stages for managing a cloud environment.
As we pointed out earlier, Consolidation Planner is installed along with the Chargeback plug-in. Consolidation
Planner can be used for not only cloud environments, but also traditional IT environments to help organizations
shrink their overall enterprise footprint. Let's take a look at Consolidation Planner now.
Consolidation Planner
While the Chargeback module is good at helping organizations or service providers identify potential revenue from
used resources, Consolidation Planner allows these same organizations a way to drive down internal costs associated
with running noncloud or cloud resources. Every enterprise data center grows steadily over time, and addition of
servers is needed to satisfy increasing business demands. This growth typically results in the increase of rack space
and the power needed for cooling and maintenance of systems to include security and patching.
