OCI Full Stack Disaster Recovery integration with Autonomous Data Guard in ADB

In this Autonomous Database Learning Lounge session, the Oracle MAA and Autonomous Database PM teams presented the OCI Full Stack Disaster Recovery and its integration with Autonomous Data Guard in Autonomous Database. Register for our bi-weekly sessions and watch recordings at https://bit.ly/adbll-main-y Slides for this session at: https://bit.ly/adbll-slides-ocifsdr Outline Suraj Ramesh, Principal Product Manager, provided an in-depth overview of OCI Full Stack Disaster Recovery and its integration with ADB-Serverless Autonomous Data Guard. He explained how Disaster recovery (DR) operations are essential for businesses to maintain continuity in the face of unforeseen events. Despite their importance, DR operations can be intricate and labour-intensive, potentially leading to prolonged recovery periods and an increased likelihood of human error. OCI Full Stack Disaster Recovery offers a holistic approach for businesses to oversee DR operations, including automated recovery processes for the entire stack—encompassing applications, databases, and infrastructure. Utilizing OCI Full Stack Disaster Recovery and automation techniques enables businesses to simplify and expedite DR operations, minimize error risks, and enhance recovery times. Full Stack Disaster Recovery is a versatile and customizable solution that delivers substantial benefits to customers. The session also featured a demonstration on executing switchover, failover, and drills with the convenience of a single-click button for a sample application, which included an ADB Serverless database.. Video highlights: 00:38 Agenda 01:20 Important links on Autonomous Database 02:17 DR Challenges and how they are addressed in OCI 06:36 OCI Global footprint 07:30 Benefits provided by Full Stack DR 10:23 Full Stack DR orchestrates recovery with a single click 11:31 Recovery made easy for many business systems 13:19 Capitalize on your existing effort 13:51 Flexible, highly scalable, highly extensivle and customizable 15:00 Full Stack DR technical concepts and new features 17:03 Core concepts 24:56 Autonomous Database Serverless integration 28:17 Demo 32:11 Built-in Plan Groupd for ADB-S 33:08 MuShop architecture 35:59 MuShop Application DR runbook for switchover 37:04 Demo 43:57 MuShop Application DR plans using Full Stack DR 45:30 Full Stack DR best practices 47:33 Full Stack DR Resources 47:42 Summary 48:04 Q&A 48:25 Q&A: Do I need to create a plan in the primary Region as well? In case of switchover activity, how can I switch back? 49:28 Q&A: Do we need the Full Stack to work in with the DB Layer, or can I have only ADBs in the plan? 50:30 Q&A: Can the Service Gateway be included in the OCI Full Stack DR group? 51:16 Q&A: Does Full Stack DR pick up all the OCI settings for the ADB, like networking, ACL, etc. 52:30 Q&A: Is this applicable for ADB in Exadata Cloud at Customer? 52:46 Q&A: Can we check the plan APIs and manually change them for protection groups? 52:53 Q&A: In a Full Stack DR where you are configuring LB, VMs, Storage, DB what exactly is customer spending on DR side when its not being used ? 53:28 Q&A: What mechanism is used to enable cross-region VM migration in case of failure? Is it fully automated? 54:01 Q&A: Does it also cover other OCI services such as Fn, Streams? 54:30 Q&A: If Golden Gate is configured with my multitenant DB instance, how the OCI full stack DR switchover and failover works in the same region and also in the different region? 54:55 Q&A: What if my DB is TDE enabled, what are the precautions needs to be taken care prior to proceed with the disaster recovery process? 55:25 Q&A: Do you support DRCC ? 55:44 Q&A: How can we monitor all these transition process like is there any kind of log will generate in the DR region and primary region? 56:30 Q&A: Is it REST enabled i.e. to execute plans? 57:04 Important links on Autonomous Database 57:19 Final thoughts