Technical Papers

• 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).

• OCI sovereign cloud principles

  Provides an overview of some OCI features and enhancements to consider for cloud sovereignty strategies and deployments.

• Perform spatial analysis with Oracle Spatial Studio

  Explains the practical aspects of working with datasets within the Oracle Spatial Studio environment, from loading spatial and nonspatial data to preparing datasets through geocoding and indexing to visualizing the data.

• Making movie recommendations by using graph analytics

  Describes how to use Graph Studio in Oracle Autonomous Database to detect and create customer communities rooted in movie-viewing behavior.

• 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.

• 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 with Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer X10M

  Provides suggested best practices for deploying Oracle Databases of the SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP/Java platform with Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer X10M.

• SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP/Java with Oracle Database@Azure

  Provides suggested best practices for deploying Oracle Databases of the SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP/Java platform on Oracle Database@Azure, based on Oracle Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X9M running Oracle Linux 8 on the VM cluster nodes.

• SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP/Java on OCI, version 3.0

  Provides suggested best practices for deploying SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP/Java on OCI, covering E4 and later bare metal and VM flex shapes.

• SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP/Java on OCI, version 2.1

  Provides suggested best practices for deploying SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP/Java on OCI, covering E4 and earlier bare metal and VM flex shapes.

• 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.

• Learn routing in OCI Networking with examples (PDF)

  Explains routing in OCI cloud networks by introducing and discussing basic OCI routing functions, and then providing in-depth typical use cases in different deployment scenarios.

• Connectivity redundancy guide (PDF)

  Helps you check your current deployment for redundancy or upgrade a single connection to OCI to a redundant connection.

• Site-to-Site VPN (IPSec) best practices (PDF)

  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.

• Creating Active Directory domain services in OCI

  Walks through the process of creating an Active Directory environment in an OCI tenancy.

• Set up a Kubernetes cluster for deploying containerized applications

  Provides Terraform building blocks for deploying the infrastructure required for a cloud-based Kubernetes environment.

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure security architecture

  Provides an overview of security architecture in OCI.

• 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.

• 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.

• Approaching Zero Trust Security with OCI

  Describes how OCI can help organizations adopt a zero trust security model as recommended by the UK National Cyber Security Centre's eight principles.

• Oracle Web Application Firewall for SaaS: Oracle Cloud’s frontline defense

  Describes how Oracle SaaS Cloud Security can help organizations protect applications with web application firewalls as a frontline defense by building resilience against cyberthreats and reinforcing overall cloud security.

Oracle provides general information about compliance frameworks in the form of advisories. These advisories help you to determine the suitability of using specific Oracle cloud services and to implement specific technical controls to meet compliance obligations. For more information about advisories and a complete list of them, see Oracle Cloud Compliance.

• 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 information about Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) for Oracle GoldenGate Hub on Oracle Cloud, see Cloud: Configuring Oracle GoldenGate Hub.

• Accessing OCI Object Storage with pre-authenticated links

  Provides step-by-step instructions for creating a bucket in OCI Object Storage, uploading a sample object to the bucket, and creating a pre-authenticated link for access to that object.

• HDFS Connector for OCI Object Storage unlocks performance for big data

  Explains how OCI Object Storage and the HDFS connector can be used as a replacement for a self-managed HDFS cluster, and provides performance comparisons with the previous versions of the connector and with a very large on-premises Hadoop cluster.

• 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.

• File Storage service performance guide

  Describes the performance of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure File Storage.

• Scale out OCI File Storage performance for AI/ML and data-intensive workloads

  Describes how to use DNS round robin to dynamically assign mount targets to clients, and how to configure DNS round robin with OCI’s fully managed DNS for virtual cloud networks (VCNs).

• 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.