Disaster Recovery for Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC): Exploring Native Support with OCI Full Stack DR

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Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) users have been discussing the need for a streamlined disaster recovery process, and many believe that a native disaster recovery instance should be an integral part of the OAC provisioning process.

Current Disaster Recovery Options:

• Technical Paper: The OAC documentation provides a comprehensive technical paper on disaster recovery. You can find it on the Technical Papers tab of the official documentation page.
• Automation Scripts: Oracle offers automation scripts to simplify the OAC migration process, which can be found in this blog post. These scripts can be utilized for disaster recovery purposes as well.
• Full Stack Disaster Recovery (FSDR) with OCI: In the event of a disaster, certain steps of the OAC disaster recovery process can be executed using the FSDR feature of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Learn more about this integration in the official OCI documentation.

OAC DR Topology with FSDR:

For those interested in a more comprehensive solution, Oracle provides a guide to designing an OAC DR topology with FSDR. This ensures a robust disaster recovery strategy for your OAC environment. Check out the following resources:

• OCI Documentation: Full Stack DR Integration with OAC
• Automation scripts suitable for FSDR are available on GitHub.

With these resources, OAC users can enhance their disaster recovery capabilities and ensure business continuity.

How many of you think a DR process should natively be supported in the OAC or multi-region fail-over?

gfzhu

Although Oracle provides customers with documents and scripts to build their own disaster recovery environment, it is still a big challenge for customers to follow these inconsistent documents and customize the scripts. In order to troubleshoot the disaster recovery configuration, the Oracle technical team needs to communicate and meet with customers many times. If the disaster recovery process can be natively supported in OAC, it will significantly reduce the frustration of both parties, improve the customer experience on OAC, and reduce the downtime of customers' critical environments.

BalaGuddeti-Oracle

Thank you @gfzhu for the detailed feedback.