This chapter covers the following topics:
Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager is a web-based application that drives all the principal automation flows for Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), including provisioning new environments, performing lifecycle management activities on those environments, and restoring environments from on-premises.
Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager is available for use in select commercial and government cloud regions. For certification details, refer to the following sections in My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 2517025.1, Getting Started with Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure:
Regions and Realms
Cloud Automation Capabilities
Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager was designed to simplify the diverse tasks Oracle E-Business Suite database administrators (DBAs) perform on a daily basis, with the goal of reducing the effort needed to perform them.
Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager offers the following benefits:
Security, with a load balancer that works as a TLS termination point.
Deployment on a subnet that is not directly exposed to the user's network (internet or corporate intranet).
The ability to allow multiple database administrators to manage the same set of Oracle E-Business Suite environments.
Full integration with Oracle Identity Cloud Service for authentication services.
This section describes available utilities and lists all key features delivered with the latest release of the automation (24.1.1) for provisioning, lift and shift, and lifecycle management when running Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager is a web application that provisions and manages Oracle E-Business Suite environments on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. It is deployed as a virtual machine within the customer tenancy. Major capabilities include One-Click Provisioning, Advanced Provisioning, Cloning, and Refresh.
Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Backup Module is a standalone tool that interviews the user to establish settings, and then uses those settings to back up an Oracle E-Business Suite on-premises environment to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage as part of a "traditional lift and shift".
Oracle Applications Manager (OAM) is a web-based tool that supports managing and monitoring of an Oracle Applications system from an HTML-based central control console. You can run on-premises OAM and use the new Cloud Standby feature to create a standby environment in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute as part of a "reduced downtime lift and shift".
Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager allows for differentiated roles between different personnel in your organization: network administrators, Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager administrators, and Oracle E-Business Suite administrators (DBAs). These are achieved using the following constructs:
Multiple Compartments - You have the option to create and use distinct compartments.
Groups - Different groups of users can be assigned different roles.
Network Profiles - The use of predefined Network Profiles greatly simplifies provisioning for Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager users (DBAs).
Network Profiles map compartments with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure network definitions to fulfill Oracle E-Business Suite network requirements.
You can either designate regional or availability domain-specific subnets for your Oracle E-Business Suite application tier, database tier, or load balancer.
Both network security groups (NSGs) and security lists can be used to control traffic at the packet level.
Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager One-Click Provisioning is used to provision new environments in which the application tier and database tier reside on a single VM as part of a streamlined preset topology.
Select the demo install image in order to conduct demonstrations with example data and explore new features. Oracle Enterprise Command Center (ECC) Framework is included when you choose this option.
Select the fresh install image in order to tailor the resulting environment and data to your specific business needs.
Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager Advanced Provisioning can be used to provision environments from customer backups. These backups are located in private object storage buckets and must be created by Cloud Manager from environments that it manages, or from on-premises environments using Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Backup Module.
Alternatively, Advanced Provisioning can provision a Vision demo or fresh installation environment from pre-seeded backups.
Note: To provision Vision demo or fresh install environments from pre-seeded backups using this feature, your Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) must be configured for public internet access, as is the case with commercial cloud regions (either with public subnets, or private subnets using a NAT Gateway).
Advanced Provisioning has the following traits:
Selection of network topology.
Support of both single availability domain and multiple availability domain regions.
Ability to define logical host names for the application tier and for the database tier running on Compute.
Ability to choose the operating system for the application tier and for the database tier running on Compute.
Placement of the database on one of the following: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute Service, Oracle Base Database Service 1-Node DB System, Oracle Base Database Service 2-Node DB System, or Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure.
The operating system will be determined by the release update level.
Choice of one or more application tiers, with either a shared (recommended) or non-shared file system. If you choose to deploy a shared file system, the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure File Storage service is automatically configured.
Choice of one of the following:
Deploy Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS).
Use an existing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure load balancer.
Use an existing, manually configured load balancer.
Configure your application tier node as the web entry point for your Oracle E-Business Suite environment.
Choice of one or more internal and external zones.
Configuration of your web entry point as the TLS termination point for the HTTP inbound connections to your Oracle E-Business Suite environment.
Ability to upload and deploy public SSH keys during provisioning to support secure shell access.
The traditional lift and shift contains two phases:
In the first phase, you will use the Oracle E-Business Suite Backup Module to back up your on-premises environment to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure object storage.
In the second phase, you will use Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager Advanced Provisioning to provision an environment from that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure object storage backup.
Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager combined with the Oracle E-Business Suite Backup Module provide this lift and shift capability.
Review "4.2.2 Lift and Shift Oracle E-Business Suite from On Premises" in My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 2517025.1, Getting Started with Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, for supported releases and mandatory requirements.
You can create a standby of your on-premises Oracle E-Business Suite installation in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute, and promote that standby to accomplish your lift and shift.
Review "4.2.2 Lift and Shift Oracle E-Business Suite from On Premises" in My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 2517025.1, Getting Started with Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, for supported releases and mandatory requirements.
Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager provides the capability to discover an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure environment that meets the standards described in My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 2656874.1, Standards Used by the Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager for Provisioning Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Source environments will typically be environments that result from one of the following operations:
A manual migration from on-premises to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
A platform migration from on-premises to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
An environment initially deployed by Cloud Manager, where either Oracle E-Business Suite or Oracle Database were upgraded.
An environment initially deployed by Cloud Manager, where any of the following configuration changes were later made:
A load balancer was added.
A node was added or deleted.
The size of the block volume attached to an application or database tier node was increased.
The File Storage service was manually configured. See My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 2794300.1, Sharing the Application Tier File System in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 or 12.1.3 Using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure File Storage Service.
Automated provisioning and lift and shift utilities provide the option to run your database on the following platforms:
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute Service (Compute)
Oracle Base Database Service 1-Node DB System - Single Instance
Oracle Base Database Service 2-Node DB System - Oracle RAC
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure - Oracle RAC
Note: Oracle Database 12c Release 12.1.0.2 and Oracle Database 11g Release 11.2.0.4 are only available for new provisioning or lifecycle management on the Oracle Base Database and Oracle Exadata Database Services if you have subscribed to the Upgrade Support program. For more information, refer to My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 2996689.1, Alert: Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Customers and January 15, 2024 Database Services Desupport for Oracle Database Releases 12.1.0.2 and 11.2.0.4.
This feature allows you to select a certified quarterly database bundle patch when using Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager to perform the following:
Provision a new environment.
Lift and shift an existing environment.
Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is automatically enabled for environments provisioned using Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager if the target database is on one of the following platforms:
Base Database Service 1-Node DB System
Base Database Service 2-Node DB System
Exadata Database Service Dedicated
In addition, you have the option to enable TDE for environments provisioned on Compute.
The following shapes are supported for all scenarios in which you can create or add an application tier node, or create a database tier node on Compute:
VM.Standard.E5.Flex (AMD)
VM.Standard.E4.Flex (AMD)
VM.Standard.E3.Flex (AMD)
VM.Standard3.Flex (Intel)
VM.Standard2.x
Note: Not all shapes are available in all regions.
These scenarios include: Advanced Provisioning, Adding an Application Tier Node, Cloning, and Standby Deployment (Reduced Downtime Lift and Shift).
For more information, see Compute Shapes.
The following shapes are supported by Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager for Advanced Provisioning and Cloning scenarios in which you create a database tier node on a DB System:
VM.Standard.E4.Flex (AMD)
VM.Standard.E3.Flex (AMD)
VM.Standard3.Flex (Intel)
VM.Standard2.x
Note: Not all shapes are available in all regions.
For more information, see About Virtual Machine DB Systems.
You will select either a Bring Your Own License (BYOL) or a Universal Credit Management (UCM) model for middleware licensing when creating your application tier during Advanced Provisioning or Cloning. The same licensing model is used across all application tier nodes in your environment, and this model is inherited when you add a node.
When conducting Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager Advanced Provisioning, you can choose the operating system time zone for your destination servers, except in the case of Exadata Database Service Dedicated. This feature is not available for Exadata Database Service Dedicated because once an Exadata infrastructure resource is created, the infrastructure time zone cannot be changed.
Note that changing to a time zone different from the one used during your initial Oracle E-Business Suite implementation can cause data corruption, so you should use caution when choosing a different time zone.
For more information about the implementation of time zone support, see Time Zone Support in Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager.
When using Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager to provision a new environment, provision from a backup, or clone, all the deployed database tier and application tier nodes will be associated with a fault domain. You can choose the fault domains yourself or accept the defaults that are provided.
Tags can be used to identify all resources associated with an environment or group of environments. When using Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager to provision, provision from a backup, or clone, the Installation Details page allows you to choose a pre-defined tag or specify a new (free-form) tag.
The Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager Cloning feature takes advantage of the native cloning capabilities of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and associated database services.
Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager Cloning is available for environments where the database tier is on Exadata Database Service Dedicated, a Base Database Service DB System, or Compute.
Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager Cloning has the following characteristics:
Application Tier
A single logical host name is used for the source and target VMs, reducing the time to clone.
For each application tier node, the boot volume is cloned to create the cloned application tier node, preserving the operating system configuration during the clone.
If the source environment is configured with a shared file system, the File Storage service volume mounted from the application tier nodes is cloned, and then mounted to the application tier nodes of the target system. For more information on File Storage service cloning, see Cloning File Systems.
If the source environment is configured with a non-shared file system, all block volumes attached to application tier nodes are cloned and subsequently attached to the target application tier nodes.
If you have added additional (custom) block volumes to your application tier nodes, the cloning process will clone these as well.
You have the option to choose different shapes for the target application tier nodes.
Database Tier on Compute
The source system boot and block volume are cloned to create a new database system, preserving the operating system configuration and database code and data during the clone.
A single logical host name is used for the source and target VMs.
You have the option to choose a different shape for the target database tier node.
Database Tier on a Base Database Service DB System
The Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager Cloning feature for Oracle E-Business Suite with a DB System is available for Release 12.2 and 12.1.3 environments that use either an Oracle 19c or 12c database.
Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager relies on the cloning capability of the database service, as described in Clone a DB System.
Database Tier on Exadata Database Service Dedicated
The Cloning Using Exadata Snapshots feature provides a method to clone an Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 environment with an Oracle 19c database on Exadata Database Service Dedicated.
Cloning Using Exadata Snapshots allows you to create a point-in-time, read-only snapshot of your source database, and then create clones from that snapshot. The cloned databases make efficient use of the space, because only the data that is different from the parent (snapshot) is stored on the disk. These sparse or thin clones are appropriate for non-production purposes such as development and testing.
Overall
When creating your cloned environment, you can choose a compartment and a network that differ from that of the source by specifying these in the network profile.
You can choose one of the following for the web entry when creating your cloned environment:
Deploy Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS).
Use an existing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure load balancer.
Use an existing manually configured load balancer.
Configure your application tier node as the web entry point.
You can create backups of environments that meet one of the following criteria:
The environments were provisioned using Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager Advanced Provisioning.
The environments were discovered using Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager Discovery.
The environments were provisioned using Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager One-Click Provisioning.
Note that these backups can then be used to provision a new environment across any certified cloud service combination using the Advanced Provisioning "Provision from Object Storage Backup" capability.
You have the option to define lifecycle policy rules to specify how a backup is managed in Object Storage after it is created. Using lifecycle policy rules can help you reduce storage costs as well as time taken to manage storage manually. See Using Object Lifecycle Management in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation.
You can create backups for an Oracle E-Business Suite environment automatically on a schedule by defining scheduling policies. These can be scheduled daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly.
The Refresh feature allows you to refresh an Oracle E-Business Suite environment from a backup. This feature works by replacing both the database contents and applications code in the target environment while preserving the target environment's infrastructure and topology. This can accelerate and simplify the refresh of environments such as UAT, dev and test, and result in both time and cost savings.
This feature is supported for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 environments that use Oracle Database 19c. See Refresh an Oracle E-Business Suite Environment for additional information regarding key attributes and restrictions.
A horizontal scaling capability allows you to add and delete application tier nodes. Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager reconfigures the system to operate with the added or deleted node or nodes and, if you are using a load balancer, modifies the back end set accordingly.
You have the option to delete environments created using Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager, whether from a new provisioning, a provisioning from a backup, or an infrastructure optimized clone.
You have the option to delete object storage backups that were created using Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud automation tools. This includes backups created using one of the following two methods:
By running the Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Backup Module.
By utilizing the Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager Create Backup feature.
Each major job in Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager, such as provisioning or cloning, consists of a set of phases and tasks defined in a driver file and run by a processing engine. You can review the status of each phase and task, as well as the overall job.
The Extensibility Framework provides administrators the ability to add tasks to jobs for Advanced Provisioning, cloning, and promoting a standby environment. Both seeded tasks and custom tasks are supported:
A seeded task is a task that is provided with the automation. Examples are running AutoConfig on the application tier nodes, changing the system administrator password, or licensing products, but there are many others.
A custom task is a task of your choosing, that can be called from a shell script. One example could be setting a profile option.
In addition, you can insert pauses between phases as you choose, and resume the job when desired. For example, you can insert a pause if you want to perform your own manual validations after a particular phase.
Online help is available for key Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager flows.