Recent Posts by John Parker

Because many customers are in the process of building their infrastructure as code, the use cases for Terraform are growing. This is especially true when you’re automating the creation of an environment in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and using OCI Marketplace images. Using Terraform to deploy OCI Marketplace offerings lets you have all of your deployment code in an automated format for deployment and state management. This post provides the basic necessary code for you...

There are many reasons why you would add a virtual network interface card (VNIC) to a Windows Server instance in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute. This set of instructions allows the full automation in Oracle Cloud to create a Windows Server instance with multiple VNICs that reside in multiple subnets. We cover the current manual steps to create a second VNIC, then take you through the automation pieces necessary to create an instance with a second VNIC. The automation...

The purpose of this migration strategy is to enable the migration of a SQL Server database or logical group of SQL Server databases with a small window of downtime. This strategy uses Microsoft SQL Server with Always On availability groups to move critical SQL Server resources that are currently in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure-Classic (OCI-Classic) environments to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This same strategy is applicable to other clouds or even from your on-premises data...

There are several circumstance under which you might want to create a new Windows Active Directory (AD) environment. This post talks about using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to build a new AD domain controller. By using Microsoft PowerShell and the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure cloudbase-init scripts, you can automate the process and eliminate the headache of building Windows AD. You can place your script in the User data section of the Advanced options when you create the host...

Do your systems require compliance with FIPS on security then Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides the flexibility to meet a key area of compliance for your Windows Server workloads: FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) compliance. The ability to create a FIPS-compliant server is a critical milestone in moving to the cloud. This post discusses how to achieve a FIPS-compliant Windows Server, describing the core steps for Windows Server 2016 server and referring to the...