New Self-Service Driven Provisioning of Pluggable Databases

Today Oracle announced new capabilities that support managing the full lifecycle of pluggable database as a service in Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Release 3 (12.1.0.3). This latest release builds on the existing capabilities to provide advanced automation for deploying database as a service using Oracle Database 12c Multitenant option. It takes it one step further by offering pluggable database as a service through Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c self-service portal providing customers with fast provisioning of database cloud services with minimal time and effort.

This is a significant addition to Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c’s existing portfolio of cloud services that includes infrastructure as a service, database as a service, testing as a service, and Java platform as a service. The solution provides a self-service mechanism to provision pluggable databases allowing users to request and access database(s) on-demand. The self-service operations are also enabled through REST APIs allowing customers to integrate with third-party automation systems or their custom enterprise portals.

Benefits

• Self-service provisioning allows rapid access to pluggable database as a service for hosting or certifying applications on Oracle Database 12c
• Self-service driven migration to pluggable database as a service in order to migrate a pre-Oracle Database 12c database to a pluggable database as a service model and test the consolidation strategy
• Single service catalog for all approved pluggable database as a service configurations which helps customers achieve standardization while catering to all applications and users in the enterprise
• Resource guarantee via database resource manager (and IORM on Oracle Exadata) that enables deployment of mixed workloads in a shared environment
• Quota, role based access, and policy based management that enforces governance and reduces administrative overhead
• Chargeback or showback which improves metering and accountability for services consumed by each pluggable database
• Comprehensive REST APIs that support integration with ticketing or change management systems, and or with other self-service portals
• Minimal administrative and maintenance overhead through self-managing automation that allows for intelligent placement of pluggable databases

To understand how pluggable database as a service works, watch this quick demo: