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About Life Cycle Management of Oracle SOA Cloud Service Instances
Typical Workflow for Managing the Life Cycle of Oracle SOA Cloud Service Instances
Exploring the Oracle SOA Cloud Service Instance Overview Page
Stopping and Starting an Oracle SOA Cloud Service Instance and Individual VMs
Exploring the Oracle SOA Cloud Service Instance Overview Page
With a few clicks of the mouse, you can create an Oracle WebLogic Server production environment in the cloud that is based on best practices, optimized for high performance and reliability, and is integrated with your Oracle service instances.
When you create an Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance, you create and configure an Oracle Fusion Middleware Infrastructure domain with the resources defined in the following table.
| Resources | Description |
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Administration Server |
Operates as the central control entity for the configuration of the entire domain. It maintains the domain's configuration documents and distributes changes in the configuration documents to managed servers. Each Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance has one server instance that hosts the administration server. |
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Managed Servers |
Host business applications, application components, Web services, and their associated resources. When creating a service instance, you can configure up to four managed servers, then scale out, as needed. Each Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance has one or more managed servers, each hosted by its own administration server. By default, the managed servers are named as follows: |
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Cluster |
Consists of multiple Oracle WebLogic Server instances running simultaneously and working together to provide increased scalability and reliability. In a cluster, most resources and services are deployed identically to each managed server (as opposed to a single managed server), enabling failover and load balancing. A cluster is configured automatically for a production-level service instance. By default, the cluster name is generated from the first eight characters of the Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance name using the following format: |
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Load Balancer |
Employs Oracle Traffic Director for load balancing to manage routing requests across all managed servers and provide failover and replication. It is recommended that you enable the load balancer when you configure more than one managed server in your environment. Enabling the load balancer is optional. |
If you want more information about Oracle WebLogic Server domains, see WebLogic Server Domains in Understanding Oracle WebLogic Server.
After the Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance is created, the administration server in the domain is started automatically. You can deploy applications and manage the domain resources using the standard administration tools, including Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control, Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console, Oracle WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST), Node Manager, and Oracle Traffic Director Console.
Note:
If you extend your domain using the administration tools, for example, to add an additional cluster, you are responsible for maintaining those additional resources.
To manage the life cycle of Oracle SOA Cloud Service instances, consider the typical workflow described in the following table.
Note:
The table provides links to information about how to perform each task by using the web browser-based Oracle SOA Cloud Service Console. For information about using the REST API to manage the life cycle of Oracle SOA Cloud Service instances, see REST API for Oracle SOA Cloud Service.
| Task | Description | More Information |
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Create an Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance |
Create a new Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance by stepping through the Oracle SOA Cloud Service provisioning wizard. |
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View all Oracle SOA Cloud Service instances |
View status, resource allocation, and other details for all Oracle SOA Cloud Service instances. |
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View detailed information about an Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance |
View status, resource allocation, and other details for an Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance. |
Exploring the Oracle SOA Cloud Service Instance Overview Page |
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Suspend an Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance |
Disable the load balancer to block any new traffic to an Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance temporarily while maintenance is performed. |
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Stop, start, or restart a service instance or individual server VMs |
Stop service instances or individual server VMs. Restart the administration server or individual server VMs if reboot is needed. |
Stopping and Starting an Oracle SOA Cloud Service Instance and Individual VMs |
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Delete an Oracle SOA Service instance |
Manage access to an Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance by deleting the service instance. |