Plan Your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Configuration

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides a broad range of cloud service offerings hosted in Oracle’s data centers in various regions around the globe. With OCI, it is simple to provision, operate, and manage all the necessary components to deploy large-scale enterprise applications with high volume workload.

About Oracle Database in the Cloud

While Oracle Cloud has several database configurations, Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (Oracle MAA) for PeopleSoft focuses on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure.

The following are some of the benefits of Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure:

Ability to choose the Oracle Exadata generation and shape (base, quarter, half, or full) or elastic shapes. See Scaling Resources within an Exadata Infrastructure Instance.
Enables you to take advantage of all of the high-performance technologies and innovations that the selected generation of Oracle Exadata brings, including:
- Oracle MAA best practices integrated into the Oracle Exadata infrastructure
- High redundancy database storage using Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM)
- Pre-configured OS for the database servers, optimized for running Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) databases
Virtualization of the environment

You can use the OCI Console to deploy an Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure environment in two steps:

Provision the Oracle Exadata infrastructure
Provision the VM clusters on top of that infrastructure

Depending on the shape you select, the new database is available for you to use in a few hours.

Tools for PeopleSoft on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

PeopleSoft on OCI operates the same as it does on-premises. However, PeopleSoft Cloud Manager enhances administrators’ experience in OCI by providing an additional layer of application-aware management, migration, and life-cycle management tools.

You can use PeopleSoft Cloud Manager to migrate, then manage, an environment onto OCI, or you can configure it for use after the environment is deployed. If your environment is already deployed on OCI, you can import its metadata into PeopleSoft Cloud Manager.

Tools for Migrating to the Cloud

One of Oracle’s cloud tools for migrating databases into Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure is Oracle Zero Downtime Migration.

Oracle Zero Downtime Migration is designed and built to help automate and perform the heavy lifting when migrating databases of virtually any size into Oracle Cloud. It was also designed to utilize Oracle Database technology and Oracle MAA best practices to minimize database and application downtime during the migration process. Oracle Zero Downtime Migration provides a range of options, including migrating from the following platforms:

On-premises
Other cloud providers
Gen 1 Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer service
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer
Oracle Cloud Classic

Extend for Maximum Availability

Your PeopleSoft implementation is critical to the operation of your business and warrants protection against disasters. For maximum availability, we recommend that you have a redundant image of your production environment in a separate location, ready to take over if disaster strikes your primary data center.

This is where Oracle Cloud shows its power. In non-cloud deployments, you need to have a second data center sufficiently far away from the primary site to avoid impact from regional outages.

Oracle Cloud provides the following features for setting up a secondary environment for disaster recovery:

Data centers already deployed around the globe
Rapid provisioning of resources using Terraform
Automation tooling for instantiating and configuring Oracle Data Guard

These features substantially reduce the time and effort required to deploy a fully functional disaster recovery site. In just a few days, you can deploy a full stack PeopleSoft for disaster recovery.