Rackware Solution Architecture Brief on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Overview
Rackware RMM platform provides a flexible and all-encompassing solution for Migration and disaster recovery. Rackware helps Enterprises and large Organizations take advantage of the agility promised by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Rackware’s platform eliminates the complexity protecting, moving, and managing large-scale applications, including critical business applications and their workloads into the Oracle Cloud. Rackware enables Oracle enterprise customers to forgo the upfront purchase of duplicate recovery hardware, the cost of set up, configuring, and maintaining that hardware by leveraging Oracle cloud infrastructure.
Rackware RMM Migration/DR platform is a non-intrusive Agentless Technology with pre- and post- Migration Configuration Capabilities that is easy to setup and configure for complicated enterprise environments/applications. Rackware RMM supports both Linux and Windows based workloads for migration to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Rackware RMM value proposition for enterprises in the Oracle Cloud is as follows:
Non-disruptive / Live Captures -No agents installed, safe and secure replication of your production environments
Network and Application Discovery — Automatically discover network configurations and applications allowing you to reconfigure them in the OCI environment during migration
Universal DR Protection — Rackware support spans all physical and virtual confluences, even for complex environments with Large SQL Clusters, and Network Attached Storage
Seamless Failback — To physical and virtual environments, for simple disaster recovery drills
Cost Reduction — Orchestration engine for multiple polices of RPOs and RTOs based on tolerance to reduce costs with less expensive compute, network, and storage utilization.
Rackware RMM Use cases:
· Migration to OCI — Automate the migration of any application from any physical or cloud environment into OCI
· Protect Applications on OCI — Manage backup and disaster recovery within OCI with configurable RPO and RTO for different workloads
· Cloud Management — Control governance, access and costs for all your systems on a single pane of glass
Rackware Value Proposition for Oracle Cloud:
· Non-disruptive — No agents installed, safe and secure replication of your production environments with no downtime
· Non-disruptive DR Drills — Downtime physical and virtual environments, simple failover and fallback
· Cost Reduction — Orchestration engine with granular RPO and RTO settings configurable per machine. Balance costs with recovery time
· Universal DR Protection — Rackware support spans all physical and virtual confluences, even for complex environments with Large SQL Clusters, and Network Attached Storage
· Network and Application Discovery — Automatically discover network configurations and applications allowing you to reconfigure them in the OCI environment during migration
Use case Technical and architectural details
Live Migration
Rackware is a heterogeneous and agnostic supporting any combination of physical and cloud locations, virtualized or bare metal deployments, cloud stack and providers. The Rackware RMM’s platform replication engine is file based using its own proprietary Discover, Analyze, Capture, Transport, and Assign technology. This allows it to support all applications without the complexity of understanding directory structures, deployment on the target side, and configuration to run properly on the target side. RMM’s Rackware Discovery Group (RDG) captures the complete workload and resource requirements. RMM RDG does a full discovery of compute resources, operating system, application image, networking, and storage usage not just an application or hypervisor config snapshot. The RDG is applied to a replication site regardless of the origin’s physical configuration and the replication site. Below is the synch mechanism for Rackware RMM replication and migration :
Rackware RMM migrates storage volume data including databases from the source to the target environment. The source volumes are migrated or moved from the source to the target environment over the wire. Rackware supports block level, file and object level replication/migration from source to the target environment. Rackware supports on-prem to Oracle cloud and cloud to oracle cloud live migration.
Source environment supported operating systems is as below:
· Oracle Linux
· Debian
· Windows Server 2003,2012,2016, 2008R2
· CentOS
· OpenSUSE
· RedHat Linux
· Ubuntu
Supported Hypervisor:
· Oracle VM
· KVM
· VMWare VSphere, ESXI
· Xen Server
· Microsoft Hyper-V
Cloud and Hosting support:
· Oracle Cloud
· MS Azure
· AWS
· Google Cloud
· VMware (vlcoud)
· OpenStack
· Rackspace
· IBM Cloud
· Virtusstream
· CloudSigma
· Peer1Hosting
· NTT
· Apachecloudstack
Data Transfer Options
Image Transfer Options In cases where RDM images are smaller or a high-speed connection exists between sites, they are easily transferred via simple export/import mechanisms in the RMM. However, in many environments, connecting over the WAN may not be practical due to network topology or image size. The results of capture operations can be placed on a portable disk or simply stored in an appliance. The contents are then shipped securely to the destination site
· Over the Internet
· IPSec VPN connect (site-site or point-site)
· FastConnect
Backup and Disaster Recovery
With Rackware RMM the image at the DR site is continuously synchronized with the origin site to ensure that this DR image reflects all changes to the production site. In the event of a failure at the Origin users are redirected to the Recovery location. Once the fault event at the Origin is addressed a delta sync back to the origin occurs then user’s fallback.
RackWare’s RMM software platform delivers a suite of intuitive and automated services that provide IT resiliency and simplified migration to the cloud, while reducing capital and operating expenses. RMM decouples the application stack from the underlying platform allowing it to be ported to any new platform. RMM includes discovery, analysis and automation features allowing all processes to be fast, easy and error-free.
