Understanding PeopleSoft Cloud Manager on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

PeopleSoft Cloud Manager is an orchestration framework to provision and manage PeopleSoft environments on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The PeopleSoft Cloud Manager can help creating task specific environments that can last as long as the task is needed. PeopleSoft Cloud Manager will enable you to focus more on business and less on infrastructure management by taking away all the complexities involved in acquiring and managing the infrastructure to run PeopleSoft on OCI.

PeopleSoft Cloud Manager is an application available on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace. Any existing PeopleSoft customer can use it by taking advantage of the Oracle Cloud Service resources.

OCI is a set of complementary cloud services that enable you to build and run a wide range of applications and services in a highly available hosted environment.

Common Abbreviations

Term

Description

DPK

PeopleSoft Deployment Packages

PCM

PeopleSoft Cloud Manager

PI

PeopleSoft Update Image

PRP

PeopleSoft Release Patchset

PUM

PeopleSoft Update Manager

OCI

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

AD

Availability Domain

VCN

Virtual Cloud Network

TDE

Transparent Data Encryption

OCID

Oracle Cloud ID

Requirements for PeopleSoft Cloud Manager

To review the requirements for PeopleSoft Cloud Manager:

PeopleSoft Cloud Manager – An Overview

Cloud Manager provides a framework for customers to provision and administer the life cycle of PeopleSoft environments on OCI. Cloud Manager brings in the agility to rapidly bring up PeopleSoft environments on demand, based on your infrastructure requirements.

Features of PeopleSoft Cloud Manager

PeopleSoft Cloud Manager provides the ability to:

  • Provision PeopleSoft environments on OCI.

  • Automate migration of on-premises environment to OCI.

  • Support lifting and shifting of Unicode or non-Unicode database.

  • Support lifting and shifting of PeopleSoft application environments that have TDE encrypted databases. The on-premises environments must be TDE encrypted before migrating.

  • Support lifting and shifting of Transparent Data Encryption, or TDE, and Real Application Clusters, or RAC, for Database Systems.

  • Orchestrate deployment of PeopleSoft 9.2 and IH 9.1 applications on OCI.

  • Take advantage of the subscription model to auto download application PeopleSoft Update Images and PRPs.

  • Create repeatable deployment templates.

  • Perform self-service provisioning of PeopleSoft environments.

  • Fully automate deployment that is immune to manual errors and process delays.

  • Manage multiple environments from a single page.

  • Enable application lifecycle management in Oracle Cloud.

  • Clone environments from running instances.

  • Access log files through UI for easy troubleshooting.

  • View the status of environment provisioning.

  • Automate PRP updates for a Cloud Manager instance.

  • Define and configure web, app domains in topology/template definitions.

  • Refresh DB System environments managed by Cloud Manager including PS_APP_HOME, PS_CUST_HOME, and database, or just the database, from a backup.

  • Automate PeopleTools upgrade and updates.

  • Perform self update of Cloud Manager to the most current update image from the prior update image.

  • Enable creating or reusing file system service (FSS) and mount target from PeopleSoft Cloud Manager UI.

  • Import environments from PeopleSoft environments that are running on Oracle Cloud.

  • Use Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) to migrate database and middle tier into Cloud Manager.

  • Use multiple PeopleSoft Client environments that are supported.

  • Use Windows middle tier with Process Scheduler to support nVision.

  • Take advantage of Database systems that support multiple Oracle Database versions.

  • Take advantage of Database systems that support Exadata shapes.

  • Stop and start environment in OCI from Cloud Manager. Customer is not billed for an environment while it is stopped.

  • Back up an environment and restore an environment from the backup from Cloud Manager UI.

  • Share PS_HOME, PS_APP_HOME and PS_CUST_HOME in multiple middle tiers using File System Service.

  • Resume provisioning when a recoverable failure occurs.

  • Take advantage of Auto scale support using Oracle Data Science.

  • Define and manage policies for all managed environments.

  • Apply critical patch updates to the infrastructure components such as Java, Tuxedo, WebLogic, and Oracle Database client.