Control Plane

Data Plane

This is where you manage your cloud resources - creating, updating, or deleting things like VMs, databases, and networks. It's accessed via the TEAM Cloud Console, CLI, or APIs. Think of it as the administrative side of TEAM Cloud.

This is where actual data processing happens. It's how you interact with the resources you’ve set up, like connecting to VMs, transferring data, or running queries. It’s the operational side, handling the flow of data and workloads.

Cloud connectivity option

Considerations

Use Case

FastConnect:

A dedicated, private connection from your on-premises data centre or other clouds directly to TEAM Cloud.

• Higher data throughput, lower latency, consistent performance

• Network costs may be higher than internet costs

• A more secure connection compared to using the public internet

Ideal for businesses needing a reliable, high-performance connection for their critical workloads.

Site-to-Site VPN:

A secure IPSec VPN connection over the public internet from your on-premises network to TEAM Cloud.

• Easy to set up and provides encrypted data transfer, ensuring secure connectivity without the need for dedicated lines

• Added layer of encrypted tunnels to internet connections

• Best effort performance

• Recommended for PoCs

• Suitable for smaller workloads or when you need a quick, cost-effective solution for secure connections

Public Internet:

Direct access to OCI services over the internet using HTTPS or other protocols.

• Best effort performance

• Simplest setup with no additional costs or infrastructure required, leveraging standard internet connections.

• Suitable for SaaS applications

• Best for general access to OCI services, such as using APIs or managing cloud resources through the web console

Migration tools/services

Considerations

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS):

Allows you to easily move your entire VMware environment to TEAM Cloud without making any changes to your existing VMware tools or processes.

Best for companies already using VMware who want to quickly lift and shift their workloads to the cloud without re-architecting.

Oracle Cloud Migrations (OCI Migration Service):

Oracle’s built-in tool for migrating applications and data to TEAM Cloud. It automates many of the tasks involved in the migration process, making it easy and efficient. 

• Migrating workloads from on-prem or other clouds, especially for traditional enterprise apps.

• Supported source environments: VMware vSphere 6.5, 6.7, or 7.0

Oracle Database Migration Tools:

Oracle Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM): This tool allows you to migrate your Oracle Databases to TEAM Cloud with minimal or no downtime.

Oracle Data Pump: Ideal for moving smaller datasets and databases using export/import functionality.

Golden Gate: Supports zero downtime migrations by capturing and applying changed data.

Data Guard: Designed for high availability and disaster recovery, but it can also be used to migrate databases. A standby database that continuously synchronizes with your primary database and lets you move to TEAM Cloud without taking DB’s offline for long periods, ensuring business continuity during the transition.

Best for database migrations, particularly for mission-critical databases where minimizing downtime is key.

A complete overview of migration solutions, tools, and resources can be found here:  Migrate Oracle Databases to OCI | Oracle

Block Volume and Object Storage

You can also move data to TEAM Cloud by directly uploading to Object Storage or by attaching Block Volumes.

Simple data migrations where you don’t need specialized migration tools. Utilize tools such as Rclone to migrate data into Object storage – review the related links at the end of the page for more great resources.

Third-Party Tools

Oracle partners with several third-party migration tools (like ZConverter, Rackware, Platespin etc.) that help with VM and data migration.

Organizations with specific migration needs or those using non-Oracle environments.