Oracle Database@Azure Solutions
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Migrate
Oracle Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) now supports all migration workflows to Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Database@Azure, which utilizes Oracle Data Guard, Oracle GoldenGate, Recovery Manager (RMAN), or Oracle Data Pump. Learn more about the Oracle ZDM Migration Workflows to Exadata Database Service on Oracle Database@Azure solution and access the step-by-step guides (PDF) and video (7:50).
High availability and disaster recovery
The Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) engineering team has validated the Silver and Gold MAA tiers for Exadata Database Service, running in Oracle Database@Azure. The Silver MAA tier provides high availability through Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) with Exadata hardware and cloud software automation. The Gold MAA tier offers disaster recovery and data protection within the same Azure region and across regions with the primary and standby databases setup using Oracle Data Guard and configured across different availability zones and regions.
To learn how to deploy Oracle Database@Azure across availability zones, see Learn about Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture for Oracle Database@Azure.
To learn how to deploy Oracle Database@Azure across regions, see Perform Cross-Regional Disaster Recovery for Exadata Database on Oracle Database@Azure.
Backup
Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture provides a comprehensive and validated approach to designing, deploying, and managing highly available and resilient Oracle Database environments for your business-critical data. Customers have multiple options to back up the Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Database@Azure. The built-in Oracle Database automatic backup is for OCI Object Storage, which Oracle manages. For mission-critical applications, Oracle recommends Oracle Autonomous Recovery Service to back up to OCI or Azure, which is also managed by Oracle. Alternatively, customers can back up to Azure Blob Storage. This is a customer-managed backup. To learn more, see About Oracle Database@Azure.
Network
Applications access Oracle Database@Azure through Azure Delegated Subnet in several network topologies, such as local virtual network (VNet), VNet peering, hub and spoke VNet peering, and VWAN hub. Local VNet topology hosts the application and database in the same VNet with lowest latency and no VNet peering cost. For more information, please review the reference architecture Learn about selecting network topologies for Oracle Database@Azure and the video.
Security
The default configuration, Oracle-managed keys, stores the master encryption keys in a wallet file locally on the database servers. Oracle Database@Azure also supports the integration with Oracle Key Vault deployed in Azure. Learn more about the Deploy Oracle Key Vault for Oracle Database@Azure solution and follow the tutorial about Secure Shell to Oracle Exadata Database Service from a Microsoft Azure Linux VM in Oracle Database@Azure.
