
{"id":7152,"date":"2021-12-08T19:16:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T19:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rax-stg-wp-aws.com\/blogs\/ebs-lift-and-shift-using-cloud-manager\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T19:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T19:28:06","slug":"ebs-lift-and-shift-using-cloud-manager","status":"publish","type":"blogs","link":"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/de\/blogs\/ebs-lift-and-shift-using-cloud-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"EBS Lift and Shift Using Cloud Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager UI was specifically designed to create and manage EBS environments on OCI and associated database services.&nbsp;Lift and Shift EBS to OCI is an approach, one among many, for migrating the on-Premises Oracle EBS to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pre Requisites<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Source database should be in the archive log mode<\/p>\n<p>Check if NTP service is configured<\/p>\n<p>In the apps tier, AD\/TXK should have minimum level of 11. It should have the following patches applied in application tier and database tier respectively.<\/p>\n<p>P<em>atch 28371446:R12.TXK.C<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Patch 29965377:R12.TXK.C<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Patch 30601878:R12.TXK.C<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Patch 30713114:R12.TXK.C<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Patch 31314595:R12.TXK.C<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>database patches-31113249<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Generation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The following is the code for generating API Signing Key<\/p>\n<p><em>mkdir ~\/.oci<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\nGenerate private key<\/p>\n<p>Command:<em>&nbsp;openssl genrsa -out ~\/.oci\/oci_api_key.pem 2048<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\nGenerate public key<\/p>\n<p>Command<em>: openssl rsa -pubout -in ~\/.oci\/oci_api_key.pem -out ~\/.oci\/oci_api_key_public.pem<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Writing RSA key<\/p>\n<p><em>get the fingerprint-<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Command<em>: openssl rsa -pubout -outform DER -in ~\/.oci\/oci_api_key.pem | openssl md5 -c<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Upload the public key to the user&#8217;s API signing key in OCI console.<\/p>\n<p><em>Created an id_rsa and id_rsa.pub keys. Copied .pub keys to` `&gt;&gt;authorized_keys. And then using puttygen created a new ppk file` `from id_rsa file and copied it to server<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Also, both users of apps and db servers SSH configuration files <em>(~\/.ssh\/config)<\/em>&nbsp;must have the entry &#8220;ServerAliveInterval 100&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:&nbsp;<\/strong>The user who you select should have the privileges to create resources in the compartments.<\/p>\n<p>1. Before provisioning an Instance, you should move on-premise EBS backup to object storage using Cloud Backup Module.<\/p>\n<p>2. You must have the WGET library installed on the on-premises server where you plan to run the Oracle E-Business Suite cloud backup module.<\/p>\n<p>3. The source database (on-premises) must be in ARCHIVELOG mode to perform a hot backup.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/blog_article_images\/26284-body-Picture1_28.png\" alt=\"ebs lift shift pic 1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Provisioning Steps&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Using the backup(step1), you will now provision a new EBS instance in OCI.<br \/>\n&#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;You will use the advance provisioning.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn this section, password validation will be done. If there are any validation issues, errors will be displayed. Correct the passwords and click <em>Next<\/em>&nbsp;to proceed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Select the Cloud Database Service option for your environment, either Compute, Virtual Machine DB System, or Exadata DB System. I had chosen Compute.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click Next to enter the application details:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new feature called Zone has been added. You can now segregate the instance as internal and external zones. We can have a load balancer shared between multiple zones of the same type.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This configuration allows for two separate URLs to resolve to the same IP address and the shared load balancer will target one backend set or another.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Define the internal zone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the Web Entry Point region, choose one of the following: New Load Balancer (LB), Manually Configured Load Balancer to select a manually deployed existing load balancer, or Application Tier Node to choose the primary application tier as the entry point.<\/p>\n<p>If you choose new load balancer or manually configured load balancer option and file system as shared, then going forward, using Cloud manager you can add a secondary node using the _&#8221;ADD Node&#8221;_. &nbsp;<br \/>\nYou can click on add here and add a secondary node if you want. Click on save zone then click next.<\/p>\n<p>In this section, you want CM to perform any additional tasks, you can specify in this session. Click next and add the SSH keys and click next.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Post steps<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After a successful provisioning of EBS Cloud Manager, you must create a new network profile to provision EBS Instance using One-Click option or Advance Provisioning option.<br \/>\nNow, you can create EBS Instance and later with the created EBS Instance, you can take a backup and migrate the same.<br \/>\nConnect to the EBS Cloud Manager VM and Login into database and application using Oracle user<\/p>\n<p><strong>Validation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once the provisioning is complete you can validate.<br \/>\n_Access the EBS Environment Login page now and validate._<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/blog_article_images\/26284-body-Picture1_29.png\" alt=\"lift and shift validation pic\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can see the details under the Environment section of the Cloud Manager.<br \/>\nThere is a new feature added in this new version of Cloud Manager for assigning backup policies<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oracle E-Business Suite has served an admirable purpose on-premises but running it on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has several merits, and the Lift and Shift migration methodology is ideal to achieve the same.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EBS Lift and Shift Using Cloud Manager<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7154,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","nid":"26284","content_type":"blog","created_by":"10130","authored_on":"2023-11-22T19:16:53+00:00","field_article_industries":"","tag_category":"Technical","field_blog_author_text":"By Shyam Addagudi, Oracle Applications Database Administrator, Rackspace Technology","seo_description":"Enhance Microsoft Active Directory authentication for WebLogic Server with SSL. 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