Technical Papers
Technical briefs, solution playbooks, tutorials, and other documents provide design patterns and best practices to help you deploy popular application workload solutions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Management and Operations Guides
- 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).
Application Solutions
- 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.
Cross-Cloud Interconnect: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Microsoft Azure
- 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.
Networking Solutions
- 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.
Compute Solutions
- 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.
AI and ML Solutions
- 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.
Security Solutions
- 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.
Compliance Advisories
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.
Data Management Solutions
- 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.
Storage Solutions
- 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.
VMware Solution
- 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.