Deployment for OCI

This topic covers the virtual machine requirements, including memory and data storage, for deploying the Delphix DataOps Platform, colloquially known as a Delphix Engine, on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

This section covers the following topics:

Databases
Image Types
Shapes
Network Configuration
Storage Configuration
Additional OCI Configuration Notes

Once you understand the requirements listed on this page, you should view the next pages on OCI deployment:

Compute Image Types

Delphix distributes product images, for OCI, using the QCOW2 image type. Compute Images must be imported into OCI using the Paravirtualized launch mode; currently, images using the Emulated launch mode are not supported.

Supported Shapes

The following is a list of shapes that are supported to deploy Delphix on OCI.

Requirements	Notes
Large Memory Instances (preferred) VM.Standard2.8 VM.Standard2.16 VM.Standard2.24	The Delphix Engine most closely resembles a storage appliance and performs best when provisioned using a storage-optimized shape. Larger shapes provide more CPU, which can prevent resource shortfalls under high I/O throughput conditions. Larger shapes also provide more memory, which the Delphix Engine uses to cache database blocks. More memory will provide better read performance.

Requirements

Notes

Large Memory Instances (preferred)

VM.Standard2.8

VM.Standard2.16

VM.Standard2.24

The Delphix Engine most closely resembles a storage appliance and performs best when provisioned using a storage-optimized shape.
Larger shapes provide more CPU, which can prevent resource shortfalls under high I/O throughput conditions.
Larger shapes also provide more memory, which the Delphix Engine uses to cache database blocks. More memory will provide better read performance.

Network Configuration

Requirements	Notes
Virtual Cloud Network (VCN)	You must deploy the Delphix Engine and all of the source and target environments in a VCN to ensure that private IP addresses are static and do not change when you restart instances. By default, OCI subnets are considered public. When defining a subnet, we encourage configuring it as private. Unless required by your environment, your VCN should not include a Public Subnet. When adding environments to the Delphix Engine, you must use the host's VCN (static private) IP addresses.
Static Private IP	The Delphix instance should be launched with a static private IP address. For security reasons, it is encouraged to avoid configuring your engine with a Public IP address; but, in some cases, it may be ok to use a dynamic Public IP address in addition to a static Private IP address if your environment requires such access.
Security Rules Configuration	OCI allows two firewall features: Network Security Groups (NSGs) and Security Lists. Oracle recommends the use of NSGs over Security Lists because “NSGs let you separate the VCN's subnet architecture from your application security requirements.” However, a VCN will use a Security List to define default rules. By default, the security list will only open port 22 for SSH access. You must modify the security list, or create NSGs, to allow access to all of the networking ports used by the Delphix Engine and the various source and target engines. This dual implementation of firewall, or security, rules may be different from other clouds. Please see OCI documentation for best practices. See Network Performance Configuration Options for information about network performance tuning. See General Network and Connectivity Requirements for information about specific port configurations.

General Storage Configuration

Requirements	Notes
Allocate initial storage equal to the size of the physical source database storage. Attach a minimum of four (4), equally sized, storage devices to the Delphix Engine. Add storage when storage capacity approaches 30% free. Must use Block Volume for data storage. Block Volumes must be attached using Paravirtualized mode.	Currently supported Instance Types, or Shapes, only support Block Volumes; File Storage is not supported. Paravirtualized block devices are required; currently, iSCSI devices are not supported. Elastic Performance Configuration Options (aka Volume Performance Policy): use Higher Performance. For high redo rates and/or high DB change rates, allocate an additional 10-20 %. Add new storage by provisioning new volumes of the same size. This enables the Delphix Engine to achieve higher I/O rates by distributing load among devices and queueing more I/O operations to its storage.