ZDM to Autonomous Database@Azure

We are pleased to announce that Oracle Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) now supports logical online and logical offline migration workflows to Oracle Autonomous Database on Oracle Database@Azure. The ZDM migration scenarios provide our customers a simple and automated way to benefit faster from Oracle Autonomous Database capabilites to simplify database management, enhance security and availability, and improve performance.

About Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Zero Downtime Migration

Oracle Autonomous Database on Oracle Database@Azure automates provisioning, tuning, patching, security, scalability, and availability, reducing operational costs and minimizing the risk of human errors. Oracle Autonomous Database can be deployed in minutes, allowing businesses to quickly launch applications and services. With it’s  integration into the Azure platform, it maintains a low-latency connection to your Azure applications to ensure optimal performance.

Oracle Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) is a free-of-charge migration solution trusted by customers worldwide that simplifies and automates Oracle database migrations, including those requiring minimal downtime. Following Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) best practices, ZDM provides pre-validation and controllable automation for a single database or database fleet migrations to Oracle Database@Azure.

Migration Workflows

You can perform the following Oracle ZDM migration workflows to migrate you Oracle Database to Oracle Autonomous Database on Oracle Database@Azure:                                                   

Logical Online Migration

The logical online migration workflow supports migrations between the same and different database versions and platforms. It uses Oracle Data Pump export and import to create the target database. The Azure Files service provides an NFS file share to store the Data Pump dump files. Oracle GoldenGate keeps the source and target databases in sync to achieve a minimal downtime migration.

Logical Online migration to Autonomous Database@Azure

Learn more in this step-by-step guide:

Logical Online Migration to Oracle Autonomous Database@Azure

Logical Offline Migration

The logical offline migration workflow supports migrations between the same and different database versions and platforms. It uses Oracle Data Pump export and import to create the target database. The Azure Files service provides an NFS file share to store the Data Pump dump files.

Logical Offline migration to Autonomous Database@Azure

Learn more in this step-by-step guide:

Logical Offline Migration to Oracle Autonomous Database@Azure

Summary

With Oracle ZDM supporting logical online and offline migration workflows to Oracle Autonomous Database on Oracle Database@Azure, customers can harness all the advantages that Oracle’s Maximum Availability Architecture premier migration solution offers. Simplicity in a single-button solution, automation and orchestration of the migration process, and cost-effectiveness with ZDM’s free of charge model. Hundreds of customers and thousands of databases have been migrated with Oracle Zero Downtime Migration to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Now, you can do the same, migrating to Oracle Autonomous Database on Oracle Database@Azure.
 

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