RE: EM 12c Snap Clone: any one try it? using it?

  • From: "Mark W. Farnham" <mwf@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pete.sharman@xxxxxxxxxx>, <kylelf@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 17:35:41 -0400

A common way to show the options that cannot be currently run is to have them 
appear “grayed out.” I give a plus one to applications that allow you to right 
click to get a useful explanation of why it is grayed out. Reasons might be 
“not installed = <link to install>” or “lack security clearance of <name of 
missing credential>” or “feature requires storage plugins and no storage 
plugins are installed - <link to install plugins>”. (Those are straw men, but I 
hope useful ones.)

 

Of course EM might just be so rich in features that it becomes too busy to 
routinely show all the unavailable functions. For situations like this, it is 
STILL a plus one to be able to toggle the display to show all the feature 
navigations even if they are unavailable. Again possibly grayed out. Having 
some way to see all the navigations including the ones that can’t function 
right now tends to be useful to following documentation written by folks that 
have different things available than you do.

 

mwf

 

From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Peter Sharman
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 4:59 PM
To: kylelf@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: EM 12c Snap Clone: any one try it? using it?

 

There are quite a number of customers using Snap Clone, some referencable, some 
not.  Maybe they just don’t follow this list? J

 

Coming back to your earlier question on not seeing the Storage Registration 
link.  I can’t actually prove this at the moment as I don’t have an 
installation that doesn’t already have storage plugins installed, but I suspect 
what you’re seeing would be expected behavior.  Why have a link that you can’t 
use at all since you haven’t already installed a storage plugin, be that ZFS as 
in your case, NetApp, or EMC?

 

Regarding loading the opar file – that’s normally only an operation you need to 
perform if your installation is in offline mode for Self Update.  Is that your 
scenario?

 

Pete

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From: kyle Hailey [mailto:kylelf@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 7:41 AM
To: Peter Sharman
Cc: ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: EM 12c Snap Clone: any one try it? using it?

 

 

By the way, is no one using this? I've gotten 0 responses ...

 

- Kyle

 

 

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:30 PM, kyle Hailey <kylelf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 

Looking to document it as a recipe that someone can follow instead of the 
marketing idea.

 

For example after installing EM 12c 12.1.0.4  you won't be able to see the 
"Storage registration"  menu option until you

 

missing "setup -> Provisioning and Patching -> Storage Registration"  
have to add metalink credentials for the following to work, alternatively :

get 12.1.0.5.0_oracle.sun.oss7_2000_0.opar

from 

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oem/grid-control/downloads/zfs-storage-plugin-487867.html
 
<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com%2Ftechnetwork%2Foem%2Fgrid-control%2Fdownloads%2Fzfs-storage-plugin-487867.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzfYYM_MTqTcuSG-jiDFciEGHiwwxQ>
  
and use CLI to register that this exists as a pluggin before installing (what 
is the command to run here?)

setup->Extensibility -> Self Update

searched for the "plugin" folder and clicked it

clicked on "plugin" menu item

clicked on "Server, Storage, and Network" folder

chose "Oracle Storage Management Framework"

after installing that the "Storage registration" menu shows up

 

- Kyle

 

 

 

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Peter Sharman <pete.sharman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Why yes, I believe I have once or twice! J

 

And here are a couple of blog posts I wrote on it to help you get started with 
yours. ;)

 

https://blogs.oracle.com/oem/entry/snap_clone_using_emc_san

http://petewhodidnottweet.com/2014/11/will-the-real-snap-clone-functionality-please-stand-up/

 

That last one is of course prior to the January plug-in release so it didn’t 
include the information on Snap Clone with EMC and ASM that the first one 
covered.  

 

You’ll also find the slides I presented at RMOUG TD 2015 at 
http://www.slideshare.net/PeteSharman/using-snap-clone-with-enterprise-manager-12c.
 

 

Pete

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Pete Sharman
Database Architect, DBaaS
Enterprise Manager Product Suite
33 Benson Crescent CALWELL ACT 2905 AUSTRALIA

Phone:  <tel:+61262924095> +61262924095 | | Fax: +61262925183 | | Mobile: 
+61414443449 <tel:%2B61414443449>  


  _____  


"Controlling developers is like herding cats."

Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook

 

"Oh no, it's not, it's much harder than that!"

Bruce Pihlamae, long term Oracle DBA


  _____  


 

From: kyle Hailey [mailto:kylelf@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 2:24 AM
To: ORACLE-L
Subject: EM 12c Snap Clone: any one try it? using it?

 

 

 

Would be interested in sharing experiences and questions.

 

here is an old blog post I did

 

http://datavirtualizer.com/em-12c-snap-clone/

 

I'm working on a new one with EM 12.1.0.4

 

 

 

- Kyle

 

 

 

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