Managing Your Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Instances and Orchestrations

Purpose

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to perform fundamental management tasks on your Oracle E-Business Suite cloud VM instances. These include rebooting, deleting and recreating instances.

Note: When performing any of the operations described here, you must use extreme caution to avoid accidental deletion of your Oracle E-Business Suite cloud environments and data.

Time to Complete

Task-dependent.

Background

When you create a VM instance in Oracle Compute Cloud, the instance has three orchestrations associated with it. Although some instance management tasks are performed directly on the instance, many are performed via an operation on the appropriate orchestration. The following sections describe how to perform these operations.

What Do You Need?

To perform the steps in this tutorial, you must have:

• One or more Linux VM instances in Oracle Compute Cloud Service (Oracle Cloud) with Oracle E-Business Suite provisioned.
• An Oracle Compute Cloud Service user ID with the Compute_Operations role.

Each instance you create has three corresponding orchestrations:

• <instance_name>_master - The master orchestration that specifies the individual orchestrations for both the instance and any storage volumes that are created.
• <instance_name>_instance - The orchestration that specifies the instance to be created. If storage volumes are created during instance creation, this orchestration waits for the storage volumes to be online before starting.
• <instance_name>_storage - The orchestration that creates storage volumes.

Note:  Do not stop the master orchestration, as doing so will delete the instance and all the associated applications and data.  See section "Deleting a VM Instance".

To reboot your VM instance and all the associated applications and database processes, you can simply restart it from the Oracle Compute Cloud Service console. When you do so, your instance retains all its configuration information, including its public IP address and any attached and mounted storage volumes:

1. Sign in to the Oracle Compute Cloud Service console.
2. If your domain spans multiple sites, select the appropriate site. To change the site, click the Site menu near the top of the page.
3. On the Instances screen, go to the instance you want to restart.
4. From the dropdown menu at the right of the instance row, select Reboot.

You can delete an instance you no longer need by stopping either the instance orchestration or the master orchestration:

• Stopping the instance orchestration (<instance_name>_instance) deletes the instance but retains the data on the attached storage volumes. Any patches and customizations that were applied to the instance will be lost.
  
• Stopping the master orchestration (<instance_name>_master) deletes the instance, and also deletes those IP addresses and storage volumes that were created when the instance was created.

If you stopped the instance orchestration (but not the master orchestration, which deletes the instance), you can recreate the instance by restarting the orchestration. Note that doing so is akin to provisioning a entirely new instance: any customizations that were associated with the old instance are lost.

• Managing Instance Life Cycle Operations in Using Oracle Compute Cloud Service (IaaS)
• Managing Instances in Using Oracle Compute Cloud Service

Date	Description
2016-12-02	Initial publication.