When it comes to migrating your organisation’s data to TEAM Cloud there are several methods and tools at our disposal based on your existing environment and migration needs, whether they’re moving databases, entire workloads, or massive datasets. The following tools and services are not exhaustive but highlight some key methods.

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS)

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS) allows your organisation to seamlessly move your entire VMware environment to TEAM Cloud without changing your existing VMware tools or processes. This is ideal for businesses already using VMware that want to quickly lift and shift workloads to the cloud without the need for re-architecting.

Oracle Cloud Migrations (OCI Migration Service)

Oracle’s built-in migration tool simplifies and automates the process of moving applications and data to native OCI resources in TEAM Cloud, making migrations from on-premises and other clouds straightforward.

Oracle Database Migration Tools

Oracle Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) enables seamless migration of Oracle Databases to TEAM Cloud with minimal or no downtime, while Oracle Data Pump is suited for smaller datasets using export/import functionality. Golden Gate supports zero-downtime migrations by capturing and applying data changes, and Data Guard offers continuous synchronisation between primary and standby databases for high availability, ensuring business continuity during migrations. These tools are ideal for mission-critical databases where minimising downtime is crucial.

Block Volume and Object Storage

You can move data to TEAM Cloud by directly uploading to Object Storage or attaching Block Volumes, making it a simple solution for data migrations that don’t require specialised tools. For example, tools like Rclone can be used to easily migrate data into Object Storage.

Third-Party Tools

Oracle partners with several third-party migration tools (like ZConverter, Rackware, Platespin etc.) that help with VM and data migration. These are useful if you have specific migration needs or are using non-Oracle environments.

Oracle Cloud Lift Services

Oracle offers migration support through Oracle Cloud Lift Services for non-production workloads. Along with the Oracle Center of Excellence (CoE), TEAM Cloud can leverage Oracle Cloud engineers for planning, architecture, prototyping, and managing cloud migrations. Both TEAM Cloud and our clients can work with a dedicated team of OCI experts from start to finish, including assessment, design, migration planning, and go-live management.

Migrate to TEAM Cloud as is

Many workloads can be moved to the cloud without any change. For example, VMware images can be moved from an on-premises ESXi environment to VMware on OCI with no changes. This approach can be beneficial for workloads that are already stable and well established as it minimises the need for extensive testing and reduces the risk of introducing new bugs or issues. We identified three main categories for migration as is.

Container to OCI Container Engine for Kubernetes

When moving containerised applications to TEAM Clouds OCI, it’s possible to move them as is by running containers on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE). OKE is compatible with upstream Kubernetes and typically supports three recent versions. Common Kubernetes operators, such as External-DNS and cert-manager, support OKE. To use native services from OKE, such as OCI Load Balancers and OCI Block Volumes, for persistent storage, annotation class names must typically be changed. Container images can be stored on OCI Container Registry, which is compatible with Docker Registry. CI/CD jobs using a Docker-compatible registry and Docker CLI simply require updated credentials.

Physical to OCI bare metal

Physical servers can be migrated to TEAM Cloud’s OCI bare metal servers. OCI bare metal servers are dedicated physical machines that can be provisioned through the OCI console like OCI virtual machines. Physical machines can be migrated using third-party tools from the list below, or you can migrate them manually by using tools, such as dd, to generate images of the disks and then using a tool, such as qemu-img, to convert the disk images to OCI-compatible images.

VMware to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

When migrating VMware images to OCI, it’s possible to move them “as-is” by simply uploading the image to the cloud and then running it on a VMware environment within OCI. This allows you to take advantage of the scalability and flexibility of the cloud while minimising the need for extensive testing while reducing the risk of new bugs or issues.