Oracle AppsUnlimited - Migrate from On-Premise to Oracle Cloud ( Lift and Shift )

Before you read : Please note the documentation and procedures for Lifting and Shifting On-Premise to Oracle Cloud is constantly evolving. Instruction here are high level and recommend to review the latest documentation.

Link : Migrating an Existing Oracle E-Business Suite Installation to the Oracle Compute Cloud Service

Migrate from On-Premise to Oracle Cloud ( Lift and Shift )

On-Premise Environment 12.1.3 or 12.2 can be moved to cloud , please review the "What Do You Need ?" section to understand the detailed requirement.

Here are the high level steps

• Identify the EBS environment for lift and shift. Make sure that it meets the requirement for migration.
• Create the compute infrastructure. Log into the compute service console and create the storage, virtual machines with the computing power required. Format the storage volumes and mount then to the requirement
• Download the cloning utility Patch 22336899
• Open the ports between the Source and the Target hosts
• Update the cln.props which is available inside the patch , ensure that properties MODE and BACKUP_TYPE are commented out as they are used for EBS with DBaaS provisioning.
• Run the EBS Cloud Clone Utility perl ./ebsclone.pl
• Run post configuration steps as necessary.

What happens in the backend ?

• Pre-Clone is run on the DB and MT
• Necessary files are copied , tarred and compressed
• Files are moved from On-Premise to Cloud 
• Config clone is run on the Target Cloud IaaS VMs

Hope this helps.

Oracle AppsUnlimited - Building your Own Machine on IaaS with EBS

Oracle Public Cloud gives multiple options to create a base image. There are options available from the market place which I will cover later. Here I will cover building your own machine image on IaaS with your own EBS Installation. If you are a customer running 12.1.3 this should interest you. This procedure can be used to build multiple development single node EBS images of your choice.

I will make the document generic to 12.2 and 12.1.3, so lets get started. Here are the high level steps

• Build a local Oracle Linux image supported on Cloud , follow doc here and stop after rebooting the linux image.
• Install EBS 12.2 or 12.1.3 with all the latest PSU,CPU, AD and TXK 
• Run Pre-Clone on the Database Tier followed by Application Tier
• Shutdown the Services
• Follow doc here and complete the rest of the preparatory task for OPC
• Upload the image
• Spin-off a machine with the uploaded Image
• Configure the Target system following Cloning documentation.
• Finish post installation task if any

With the uploaded image , you can spin-off as many as EBS instances needed.

Reference Note for Cloning : Cloning Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 with Rapid Clone (Doc ID 1383621.1)

Though this procedure has a lot of work on customer end , I would recommend to try out Market Place Images.