1. Provision and deploy a maximum availability solution for PeopleSoft on Oracle Cloud
  2. Configure for Application Migration

Configure for Application Migration

With the database migrated and protected, you can configure the application and web tier. You'll set up the application and web tiers at both the future primary and the future standby sites.

There are three options for this task:

  1. Freshly install and configure the application and web tier code using the PeopleSoft Cloud Manager
  2. “Lift and shift” the application and web tier code from on-premises to OCI using the PeopleSoft Cloud Manager, including configuration of the application and web tiers
  3. Manually migrate the application and web tiers (code and configuration) to pre-provisioned OCI compute instances

With options 1 and 2, you can use PeopleSoft Cloud Manager to provision the middle tiers by either installing the software or performing a lift and shift of the application and web tiers.

Option 3 does not require PeopleSoft Cloud Manager, and is the process described here.

About Configuring the Application and Web Tiers

To manually migrate the application and web tiers, you'll configure the compute instances you provisioned earlier in OCI, and then copy the PeopleSoft application and web tiers from the on-premises environment to OCI.

We'll split the install into three major phases:

  • PeopleSoft Application and Web Tier Setup, where the bulk of the application migration and setup are completed. These steps include:
    • Configure the compute instances
    • Lift and shift the PeopleSoft software
    • Configure PeopleSoft for the new environment
    • Do a full-stack test
  • Add Coherence*Web to the configuration:
    • Provision and configure the OCI load balancer
    • Install and configure Coherence*Web
  • Housekeeping:
    • Convert the database back to physical standby
    • Back up the OCI middle tier

When the above tasks are completed for the future primary site, you'll provision and configure the cascade standby on the middle tiers to set the PeopleSoft application and web tiers up at the future standby.

This example uses the software and versions described in the table for the primary and both standby sites.

Softeware Component Version
Oracle Database Client 19.3.0.0.0 (64bit)
PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.57.11
PeopleSoft HRMS 9.2 U0033
Oracle Tuxedo 12.2.2.0.0
MicroFocus COBOL Server Express MicroFocus COBOL Server Express 5.1 WP14
Oracle Java JDK/JRE 1.8.0_221
Oracle WebLogic 12.2.1.3
Oracle Coherence*Web 12.2.1.3