Oracle-Managed OCI Migration for Classic UK Government Environments

One of Oracle's latest advancements, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is the foundation of Oracle's second-generation cloud. OCI, a purpose-built, best-in-class platform for running enterprise applications, is engineered from the ground up to run mission-critical databases, workloads, and applications while providing end-to-end security. Oracle's data centers around the globe are standardizing on the new OCI architecture which will deliver even greater performance and reliability. There are a lot of EPM Cloud features that are available only in OCI. See Features Available only in OCI EPM Cloud Environments in Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators.

Oracle will migrate all Classic UK Government environments to OCI in Wave 9.  Oracle has sent notifications for Oracle-managed migrations specifying the migration schedule.  Your OCI environments were made available in May 2024. Complete the optional activities documented at Oracle-Managed Migration before July 2024. 

In July 2024, while applying the monthly update 24.07 during the daily maintenance window, Oracle will automatically clone your OCI environments from Classic environments and change the DNS configuration so that the existing Classic service URLs are routed to the OCI environments. Cloning of test environments will be done on the first Friday of July 2024. Cloning of production environments will take place on the third Friday of July 2024. Oracle will terminate your Classic environments by August 31, 2024.

NOTE:

  • The migration from the Classic to the OCI environment will occur on the scheduled date even if you have requested to skip the 24.07 update (using the skipUpdate EPM Automate command or by raising a service request). In this scenario, the OCI environment will have the same monthly update as the corresponding Classic environment, and skip update for 24.07 will be active on the OCI environment.

  • If your Classic environment is on a one-off patch not to be merged back in 24.07, the migration from Classic to OCI environment will still occur on the scheduled date. In this scenario, the OCI environment will have the same one-off patch as the corresponding Classic environment.

  • If you requested Oracle to apply the monthly update 24.07 on your Classic production environment before the third Friday of July 2024, the migration will occur during the daily maintenance when your Classic production environment is updated with the monthly update (before third Friday of July 2024) .

  • If your Classic environment is going through a scheduled or unscheduled maintenance at the time of the daily maintenance when your migration is scheduled, since the scheduled daily maintenance is skipped, the migration will occur during the daily maintenance on the next day.

Applies to: Account Reconciliation, Enterprise Data Management, Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management, Financial Consolidation and Close, FreeForm, Narrative Reporting, Planning, Profitability and Cost Management, Tax Reporting

Business Benefit: OCI provides you a purpose-built, best-in-class platform that is engineered from the ground up to run mission-critical databases, workloads, and business processes while providing end-to-end security. This new architecture delivers greater performance and reliability, and a number of EPM Cloud features that are not available in Classic EPM Cloud.

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