RackWare’s 7.4.1 release enables native support for Oracle PCA X9-2
SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 7, 2022: RackWare and Oracle announced certification of RackWare’s Cloud Migration, Disaster Recovery and Backup solution on PCA X9-2 in November 2022.
PCA X9-2, Oracle’s latest in the Private Cloud Appliance product family, provides private cloud infrastructure and architecture consistent with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
RackWare with its true ANY-to-ANY migration and disaster recovery capabilities, now allows users to move their workloads into PCA X9-2 from on-prem VMWare, OLCNE, Nutanix, Cloud (AWS, GCP, IBM Cloud, etc.) and older PCA generations. RackWare has also successfully demonstrated its capabilities to protect PCA workloads using Converged DR and Backup by moving workloads to OCI, remote PCA(s) and other clouds.
Image: Platforms supported by RMM to migrate and protect workloads to Oracle PCA
RackWare Management Module (RMM) software runs on any RHEL based 7.x Linux operating system. RackWare has marketplace listings on major clouds like Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, where users can deploy the instance with a single click and self-start migration activities.
Connectivity to the source and destination environments is over inherently encrypted SSH protocol and RMM is also capable of cloud orchestration in the destination environment using REST APIs over Secure HTTP (HTTPS).
Image: Moving workloads from AWS into PCA x9-2
With the new release enabling native support for PCA x9-2, users will now be able to avail feature sets like:
Migrations using Auto-Provisioning: RackWare appliance identifies sources’ compute specifications and deploy a like for like instance in the destination environment without the need user input.
Right Sizing with Auto Provisioning: User can decide on reducing / increasing the compute and storage specification for target instances. Allowing users, the granularity of re-sizing the filesystems.
Dynamic Provisioning during DR: Users can leverage RackWare’s ability to locally maintain a replica image of the source instance and use this image to deploy a failover instance in a DR event.
Backup, Single File Restore and Protected Snapshots: RackWare’s Backup offering comes with rich feature-sets like snapshot retention up to 3 years, selective file restores and unlimited protected snapshots for point-in-time recovery.
BIOS to UEFI: Users can seamlessly migrate to UEFI enabled instances without any additional configuration changes to the original instance.
Throttled-Migrations: Users have a greater control over every single migration by being able to throttle the bandwidth individually.
Completely Automated Failover and Fallback: Failover is completely automated as is falling back to the Origin environment
RMM provides many more features like selective filesystem syncs, files and folder exclusions, enabling cloud-init, and custom post-scripts.
RackWare has closely worked with Oracle PCA team to thoroughly test and certify the solution on PCA X9-2 platform and is also compatible with previous versions of PCA.
"Increasingly, customers are demanding integration of their on-premises and cloud deployments for complete disaster recovery protection. RackWare's new certified solution provides customers with robust backup and DR capabilities between the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, on-premises, and OCI", said Krishna Srinivasan, Senior Director, Product Management, Oracle Private Cloud Appliance.
"RackWare sees the PCA X9-2 as an excellent opportunity for companies to build private and multi-Cloud environments quickly, easily, and most importantly using the same secure and high-performance infrastructure as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure", said Todd Matters, CTO, RackWare.
More information can be found at https://blogs.oracle.com/oracle-systems/post/rackware-and-oracle-pca-x9-2---delivering-migration-backup-and-disaster-recovery-together
Sameer Save
Sr. Software Engineer