Azure Tessell for Oracle Exadata
The only DBaaS Plaform for Oracle on Azure Migrate, modernize, and manage your Oracle databases and Exadata@Azure with ease
Solution
Easily create databases in any Azure region
Choice of compute
- High-performance (Lsv3)
- Standard (Easv5, Dasv5)
Get 1 million+ IOPS for your mission-critical (Exadata-like) databases
Software maintenance is included as part of DBaaS
Both DB and OS patching are fully covered
Standby-First Patch Application (Near zero downtime for HA configurations)
Guaranteed uptime - 99.99% SLA
Comprehensive monitoring metrics for database and operating system
View the top SQL queries for performance analysis and tuning
Automated snapshots to honor RPO SLA
Take manual snapshots any time
Convert cloud snapshots into RMAN backups
Multi-AZ HA
Cross-region DR
BCP compliance
Snapshot-based and point-in-time restore (PITR)
Zero data loss protection with the ability to recover to the last committed transaction
Bring your script to create sanitized snapshots
Create clones via self-service
Manage Dev/QA/UAT environments at one place
Seamlessly integrate with third-party software and services for observability, security/compliance, and data pipeline
Migration
Reduce costs, improve performance, enhance security and flexibility by migrating Oracle databases to Azure
On-premises? Self-managed on Cloud? Cloud-native DBaaS? Our Oracle experts will help you migrate to Tessell
From On-Premises
Reduce risk and cost by starting with a Standby in Azure.
Run dev/test in the cloud, consume as a utility, and reduce the costs by stopping databases when not in use.
Simplify business continuity planning with this hybrid cloud setup, eventually paving the way for complete cloud migration.
From Self-Managed on Cloud
Reduce risk & cost by starting with a Disaster Recovery (DR) setup in Azure.
Run dev/test in the cloud, automate data masking, and reduce cost by creating stop/start schedules.
Get a fully-managed highly-available service for your databases.
From AWS RDS
Go from no visibility (total lock-in) to full visibility (no lock-in).
Customize images and deployments to meet your compliance.
Implement an Oracle-certified business continuity by leveraging the DB-native DataGuard technology.
Licensing
Bring your own license (BYOL), or
Tessell can work with a third-party reseller to procure Oracle licenses for you.
Optimize your Oracle license usage while staying compliant.
Right-Size Oracle Licenses
Tessell will perform a detailed analysis of the Oracle AWR reports identifying actual compute usage and designing the optimal Azure VM as per Oracle licensing guidelines.
Enforcement for Oracle License Quotas
Set thresholds for Oracle license usage and Tessell will not allow spawning of additional Oracle instances once the license limits are reached.
Compliance Reports for Oracle License Usage
Integrated reporting to show the entire Oracle Estate along with details of VMs, purpose, and licenses consumed per region, compute type, workload type, or department.
Support
Enterprise-grade Support for Oracle
Tessell will take the first call for support, diagnose the issue and expedite speedy resolution.
Choose either Enterprise Edition or Standard Edition Two based on your environment.
Tessell supports all versions and patchsets that are supported by Oracle.
Automated Upgrades
Tessell will help you upgrade your databases to the latest version so that you don't have to worry about end of support from Oracle
Three-way Support
In the event of a problem, Tessell works with the customers to explain the issue to Oracle Support and expedite a resolution
Deployment Architecture
Data Plane @ Customer
The data plane resides in the customer’s Azure tenant. All the databases, snapshots, backups, transaction logs, monitoring metrics, and database logs are stored here.
Bring Your Own Network
Customers can choose to run databases on private networks. There’s no inbound connection from the control plane to the data plane. Only outbound calls to Tessell REST APIs over HTTPS are made from the data plane.
Secure Control Plane
The control plane is hosted on Tessell’s Azure tenant. Only the Tessell GUI and REST APIs are publicly accessible over HTTPS. Everything else runs on a private network. Tessell only keeps the metadata about the managed services here.
Single Sign-On
Securely authenticate your users via SSO (Azure AD). All clients, including the GUI, use REST APIs with revocable tokens.
Security Architecture
Minimum Privileges
Tessell’s access to the data plane adheres to the least privilege model. Tessell restricts its operations to a specific resource group within a specific subscription and is unable to access (read, write, update, or delete) any resources that are not our own.
Operate Within Parameters
Within the workspace that you create for Tessell, you can confine Tessell to using the networks (BYON) and keys (BYOK) of your choice. Tessell can’t create, update or delete any network or key.
Use Cases
Fully managed Oracle DBaaS on Azure
IO hungry Oracle workloads on Azure
High Availability and Data Protection for Oracle on Azure
PaaS with Oracle DAM & OEM agent support
Compliance & Governance for Oracle workloads
Mission-critical Oracle migration to Azure
Integrations
Accelerate Provisioning
Database self-service and seamless Terraform-compatible DevOps automation
Production Grade IOPS
Leverage NVMe-based Azure High Performance Compute (Lsv3) for production
Efficiently Take Cost Out
Cost-optimize VM shapes across development, test, UAT, and production
Flexible Data Networks
Use private-peering to move transactional data into analytic systems
Hybrid-Cloud Connectivity
Use VPN or dedicated ExpressRoute for hybrid cloud connectivity
Sophisticated Security
Within your subscription, bring your network security groups
Storage Cost Mapping
Efficiently map IOPS requirements to Ultra and Premium SSD storage
RBAC-Based Templates
Control cost with approved self-service compute and storage shapes for end-users
DevSecOps Automation
Use Tessell’s Terraform automation to orchestrate compute and storage across DevSecOps
Simplify Business Continuity
Improve business continuity managing disk images and database backups as a unit
Point-in-Time Backup
Create incremental snapshots, full snapshots or disk images
Durable Data Protection
Choose local or zone snapshot redundancy
Seamless Analytic Integration
Send transactional & unstructured data to Blob Storage for Big Data analytics
Business Continuity & Retention
Use cost effective Azure Blob to store petabytes of backups and enhanced business continuity
Storage Cost Optimization
Further reduce cost utilizing storage tiers for infrequently or rarely accessed data
Complete Observability
Observability up-and-down the entire technology stack
Telemetry-on-Provisioning
Automatically send DBaaS telemetry into Azure Monitor
Federate Alerting & Ticketing
Integrate with ticketing and other ITSM systems
Enhanced Protection
Bring your FIPS 140-2 validated keeys to encrypt the data at rest
Industry Compliance
Restrict the geographies for keys so that your sensitive data never leaves the production boundary
Control Access
Seamless transition from development to production with RBAC for keys and secrets
Comprehensive Data Management
Pair with the Azure Data Analytics portfolio to drive granular insights with high velocity and scale
Central Data Ecosystem
Integrate data transfomration with Azure Data Lakes, Azure Synapse, Analytics and popular power BI frameworks
Global Data Governance
Curate data, process it with pertinent tools within ADS and project the insights aligned with end users
FAQs
The Tessell Availability Machine protects your data by taking regular snapshots and transaction log backups. The Availability Machine utilizes Azure Snapshots and Azure Blob Storage for this purpose. Customers benefit from Azure Blob Storage’s sixteen nines of durability combined with geo-replication. Additionally, you can optimize storage costs with tiered storage for your long-term data retention and compliance.
Yes, Tessell leverages the Azure infrastructure, which is certified by Oracle. Tessell simply installs and configures Oracle databases on Azure VMs and manages them behind the scenes. Additionally Tessell supports licensed Oracle functionality including: container databases, native RMAN backups, Flashback, Automatic Storage Manager, Clone Refresh, Oracle Label Security, Transparent Data Encryption, Data Guard and Enterprise Manager.
Yes, Tessell is an Azure preferred solution in the Azure Marketplace and Azure has certified Tessell DBaaS for Oracle. Tessell on Azure is also IP co-sell ready and is Microsoft Azure Consumption Credits (MACC)-eligible.