Technical Papers

• Best practices framework for OCI

  Provides best practices to design and operate cloud topologies that deliver maximum value, organized under four business goals: security and compliance, reliability and resilience, performance and cost optimization, and operational efficiency.

• Learn about protecting your cloud topology against disasters

  Outlines best practices for how to design and implement your application disaster recovery on OCI.

• Learn about architecting a highly available cloud topology

  Describes architectural best practices for designing high-availability solutions on OCI, including how to leverage Oracle-specific services.

• Setting up Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.5 on OCI

  Guides you through the required steps to create a stack on OCI Resource Manager and use it to deploy a single-node or multiple-node Enterprise Manager setup.

• Building highly available applications in a region with one availability domain

  Provides automated steps for building high availability into the applications that are deployed across multiple fault domains in an availability domain within OCI, using Terraform.

• Managed and Comanaged Consolidation and Deployment Strategies for OCI

  Provides a strategy and methodology for consolidating applications, databases, and VMs in OCI with a focus on managed and comanaged Exadata Cloud Service, managed and comanaged Exadata Cloud@Customer, VM and bare metal DB systems, Autonomous Data Warehouse, Autonomous Transaction Processing, and VMs (application and database compute capacity).

• Performance of Ansys Mechanical on OCI

  Discusses the results of benchmark tests that were performed with the latest set of Ansys Mechanical benchmarks on various OCI Compute cluster systems to determine the best overall configuration for a production simulation workload in a cloud environment that provides performance comparable to dedicated on-premises hardware systems.

• Provision Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in ServiceNow Using Terraform

  Provides detailed instructions on how to deploy and provision resources to your OCI tenancy and manage the full lifecycle of those resources from your ServiceNow environment.

• Learn about deploying Oracle E-Business Suite on OCI

  Provides information for planning a multiple-host, secure, high-availability topology for provisioning Oracle E-Business Suite on OCI or migrating Oracle E-Business Suite environments from your data center to OCI. See also Set up infrastructure components for deploying Oracle E-Business Suite.

• Learn about deploying PeopleSoft on OCI

  Provides information for planning a multiple-host, secure, high-availability topology for provisioning Oracle PeopleSoft applications on OCI or migrating PeopleSoft environments from your data center to OCI.

• Learn about migrating application data to the cloud

  Discusses best practices for moving application data to OCI.

• Migrating SAP NetWeaver based systems within the scope of Oracle Databases

  Provides the common methods and necessary steps for migrating systems based on SAP NetWeaver within the scope of Oracle Databases. Migration methods specific to Oracle Multitenant and Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) are discussed in detail.

• SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP/Java on Oracle Exadata Database Service Based on Oracle Exadata Infrastructure X9M

  Provides suggested best practices for deploying Oracle Databases of the SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP/Java platform on the Oracle Exadata Database Service, based on Oracle Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X9M running Oracle Linux 7.

• SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP/Java on Oracle Exadata Cloud Service Based on Oracle Exadata X8M

  Provides suggested best practices for deploying Oracle Databases of the SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP/Java platform on the Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service, based on Oracle Exadata X8M hardware and using Oracle Linux 7, in OCI.

• SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP/Java with Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer X9M

  Provides suggested best practices for deploying Oracle Databases of the SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP/Java platform with Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer X9M.

• SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP/Java on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

  Provides suggested best practices for deploying SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP/Java on OCI.

• Deploy the OCI and Microsoft Azure interconnect using hub-and-spoke topology

  Describes how to distribute a typical application workload in OCI in a hub-and-spoke topology and how to access it from Microsoft Azure through a private interconnection.

• Set up SSO between Azure AD and Oracle Identity Cloud Service for Oracle E-Business Suite

  Describes the cross-cloud architecture for E-Business Suite deployed in OCI and Microsoft Azure, and how to configure federated single sign-on using Oracle Identity Cloud Service and Azure Active Directory.

• Set up SSO between Azure AD and Oracle Access Manager for Oracle E-Business Suite

  Describes the cross-cloud architecture for E-Business Suite deployed in OCI and Microsoft Azure, and how to configure federated single sign-on using Oracle Access Manager and Azure Active Directory.

• Set up SSO between Azure AD and Oracle Access Manager for Oracle Retail Merchandising Suite

  Describes the cross-cloud architecture for Oracle Retail Merchandising Suite deployed in OCI and Microsoft Azure, and how to configure federated single sign-on using Oracle Access Manager and Azure Active Directory.

• Set up SSO between Azure AD and Oracle Identity Cloud Service for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

  Describes the cross-cloud architecture for JD Edwards applications deployed in OCI and Microsoft Azure, and how to configure federated single sign-on using Oracle Identity Cloud Service and Azure Active Directory.

• Set up SSO between Azure AD and Oracle Identity Cloud Service for PeopleSoft

  Describes the cross-cloud architecture for PeopleSoft applications deployed in OCI and Microsoft Azure, and how to configure federated single sign-on using Oracle Identity Cloud Service and Azure Active Directory.

• Bastion hosts: Protected access for virtual cloud networks

  Provides best practices for bastion hosts and securing access to OCI instances.

• Connectivity redundancy guide

  Helps you check your current deployment for redundancy or upgrade a single connection to OCI to a redundant connection.

• Encrypted FastConnect: Public peering

  Explains how to encrypt the data flowing through an OCI FastConnect connection by using the Site-to-Site VPN and FastConnect services together.

• Site-to-Site VPN (IPSec) best practices

  Provides best practices for how to connect your on-premises network to OCI with the most success by using Site-to-Site VPN over the internet.

• SDN integration with Nuage Networks

  Provides instructions for deploying the Nuage Networks from Nokia software-defined networking (SDN) solution within OCI.

• Creating Active Directory Domain Services in OCI

  Walks through the process of creating an Active Directory environment in an OCI tenancy.

• Oracle Linux KVM image for OCI

  Describes how to create an Oracle Linux KVM instance on OCI.

• Set up a Kubernetes cluster for deploying containerized applications

  Provides Terraform building blocks for deploying the infrastructure required for a cloud-based Kubernetes environment.

• Oracle and Generative AI

  Provides an overview of generative AI capabilities in Oracle Cloud.

• Responsible AI: Oracle’s Guide to Ethical Considerations in AI Development and Deployment

  Provides a comprehensive framework for the development, deployment, and management of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in alignment with the principles of ethical and responsible AI usage.

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure security architecture

  Provides an overview of security architecture in OCI.

• Security checklist for OCI

  Learn about the security design principles of OCI and understand the shared security model. Review the available security controls as a comprehensive checklist.

• Best practices for Identity and Access Management (IAM) in OCI

  Provides best practices for using the IAM service when you're planning, designing, and deploying solutions on OCI.

• IAM Identity Domain OAuth and OpenID Connect Flows and Best Practices

  Describes the various flows and best practices of using OCI IAM identity domains with OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect.

• OCI Okta configuration for federation and provisioning

  Provides the steps required to configure OCI federation with Okta.

• Federating Oracle Access Manager to OCI

  Provides the steps required to configure OCI federation with Oracle Access Manager.

• National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) cloud security principles and implementation in Oracle Cloud

  Summarizes 14 essential NCSC principles to consider when evaluating cloud services, and provides context for why these principles might be important to an organization.

Oracle provides general information and technical recommendations for the use of its cloud services in the form of “advisories.” For complete information about advisories, see Oracle Cloud Compliance.

• Privacy features of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

  Describes how the features and functionality of OCI can help you address some of the requirements that arise from data privacy regulations found across the world.

• OCI and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

  Explains how the features and functionality of OCI can help you meet some of the GDPR requirements.

• OCI and the United Arab Emirates Health Data Law

  Provides information to help you determine the suitability of using OCI in the context of the United Arab Emirates Health Data Law requirements.

• OCI and the Technology Risk Management Guidelines issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore in January 2021

  Describes several OCI policies and practices to help you determine the suitability of using OCI in relation to section 8.5 of the TRM Guidelines, Data Centre Resilience, issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore in January 2021.

• Contract checklist for OCI and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Guidelines on Outsourcing

  Identifies sections of the Oracle cloud services contract that pertain to the requirements in the MAS Guidelines on Outsourcing to help you determine the suitability of using Oracle products in relation to these guidelines.

• OCI and Publication 1075, Tax Information Security Guidelines for Federal, State, and Local Agencies

  Provides information to help you determine the suitability of using OCI US Government Cloud in relation to US Internal Revenue Service Publication 1075.

• Oracle Cloud services and the European outsourcing guidelines (EBA, EIOPA, ESMA)

  Provides information to help you determine the suitability of using Oracle Cloud services in the context of the EU outsourcing guidelines provided by the European Banking Authority (EBA), European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), and European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA).

• OCI and the South African Protection of Personal Information Act 2013

  Provides information to help you determine the suitability of using OCI in relation to POPIA’s eight conditions for lawful processing of personal information in general (Part A).

• Oracle Cloud Service and the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA)

  Describes several OCI policies and practices that can help you determine the suitability of using OCI in relation to the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) guidance and regulations.

• OCI and the IRDAI (Outsourcing of Activities by Indian Insurers) Regulations, 2017

  Provides information to help you assess your use of OCI in the context of the requirements applicable to you under the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) (Outsourcing of Activities by Indian Insurers) Regulations, 2017.

• OCI and the SAMA Cyber Security Framework

  Provides information to help you determine the suitability of using OCI in relation to the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) Cyber Security Framework.

• Best practices for running Cloudera cloud solutions on OCI

  Provides a reference architecture and best practices for running Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub or Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Data Center on OCI.

• Deploy a highly available Apache Cassandra cluster

  Provides a reference architecture and Terraform for a six-node deployment of an Apache Cassandra cluster running on OCI Compute instances.

• Deploy a highly available, distributed cache using Redis

  Provides a reference architecture and Terraform for a typical six-node deployment of a Redis cluster running on OCI Compute instances.

• Using Oracle GoldenGate on Oracle Cloud

  Provides information about how to deploy Oracle GoldenGate Microservices on OCI. For Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) for Oracle GoldenGate, see Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) GoldenGate Hub.

• File Storage service performance guide

  Describes the performance of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure File Storage.

• Move data to Object Storage in the cloud by using rclone

  Describes how to use rclone to transfer large amounts of unstructured data like videos, backups, and logs from cloud or on-premises sources to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage.

• Using Block Volume service metrics to calculate block volume throughput and IOPS

  Walks through a performance testing scenario to show how you can use these metrics to determine the performance characteristics of your block volumes.

• Deploy Zerto to protect your VMware SDDC in the cloud against disasters

  Learn how to deploy Zerto to protect your Oracle Cloud VMware SDDC data in the cloud.

• Deploy Veeam to protect your VMware SDDC in the cloud against disasters

  Learn how to deploy Veeam to protect your Oracle Cloud VMware SDDC data in the cloud.

• Deploy Actifio to protect your VMware SDDC in the cloud against disasters

  Learn how you can configure Actifio backup and disaster recovery solution for guest VMs in Oracle Cloud VMware Solution.

• Deploy a highly available SDDC to the cloud

  Shows you how to deploy a VMware SDDC on OCI and then integrate it with other Oracle services running on Oracle Cloud.

• Migrate your on-premises VMware workloads to the cloud

  Outlines the process of online, or live, migration of your VMware workloads from an on-premises data center environment to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution.

• Build a hybrid SDDC by extending your on-premises VMware deployment to Oracle Cloud

  Describes how to set up a hybrid VMware SDDC between your on-premises environment and OCI by using Oracle Cloud VMware Solution.

• Learn about connecting to Oracle Cloud and VMware resources

  Describes several methods for connecting to your Oracle Cloud and VMware resources, plus their benefits, limitations, and how to get started.

• Implement disaster recovery for an Oracle Cloud VMware Solution SDDC on the cloud

  Describes how Oracle Cloud VMware Solution uses VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to implement an automated, reliable, and flexible disaster recovery solution for your VMware SDDC.

• Deploy a multitier application stack on a VMware SDDC connected to an autonomous database

  Shows a three-tier application stack in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with the application tier deployed in a VMware SDDC that's created by using Oracle Cloud VMware Solution.