Oracle launched a new update on February 19th, 2024:  Full Stack Disaster Recovery in New Regions worldwide!!

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is pleased to announce the further expansion of its Full Stack Disaster Recovery (FSDR) service to new regions in 2024. This enhancement aims to provide customers with a more comprehensive disaster recovery solution, ensuring business continuity and reliability across a broader geographic footprint.

Topics to be covered:

• Introduction
• New Regions for Full Stack Disaster Recovery
• Key insights
• Benefits of Full Stack Disaster Recovery
• How Full Stack Disaster Recovery Works
• Conclusion

Introduction

Oracle’s Full Stack Disaster Recovery service is designed to orchestrate the transition of compute, database, and applications between OCI regions from around the globe with a single click. This streamlined process eliminates the need for customers to redesign or re-architect existing infrastructure, databases, or applications, and it does not require specialized management or conversion servers.

The service is particularly useful for companies that need to maintain high availability and scalability for their applications, databases, and infrastructure.

New Regions for Full Stack Disaster Recovery

The latest update includes the addition of several new regions where FSDR is now available:

• Chile West – Valparaiso (VAP)
• Colombia Central – Bogota
• Israel Central – Jerusalem
• Mexico Central – Queretaro
• Mexico Northeast – Monterrey
• South Africa Central – Johannesburg
• South Korea Central – Seoul
• South Korea North – Chuncheon
• Sweden Central – Stockholm
• Switzerland North – Zurich

Benefits of Full Stack Disaster Recovery

The Full Stack Disaster Recovery service offers several key benefits to customers, including:

• Automation: The service automates the steps needed to recover one or more business systems without requiring human intervention.
• Flexibility: FSDR can be tailored to meet unique requirements, allowing the integration of any type of custom automation, including shell scripts and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Functions.
• Comprehensive Prechecks: The service performs comprehensive prechecks before a disaster recovery plan is executed to ensure the recovery operation will succeed in the standby region.
• Visual Monitoring: Customers can visually observe a recovery operation every step of the way through the OCI console, allowing for greater transparency and control.

How Full Stack Disaster Recovery Works:

1. Identify Components: Begin by identifying all components and dependencies of the application stack that require disaster recovery protection.
2. Create Consistency Grouping: Group these components and dependencies into a consistency group to ensure their coordinated recovery.
3. Automate DR Plans: Develop automated DR plans (workflows) for both planned and unplanned DR migrations, customizing them to incorporate additional requirements.
4. Testing and Validation: Test and validate the DR plans to ensure they are error-free and align with business continuity objectives.
5. Execution: Execute the pretested DR workflows to perform planned or unplanned DR operations, ensuring a seamless transition in case of a disaster.

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Full Stack Disaster Recovery streamlines the disaster recovery process, offering a robust and efficient solution for businesses to safeguard their critical systems and maintain operational continuity in the face of unforeseen events.

Where Full Stack Disaster Recovery (DR) saves the day:

In a full-stack disaster recovery scenario, if a server failure occurs, data is instantly mirrored to a redundant server. Meanwhile, a load balancer reroutes traffic seamlessly. Simultaneously, cloud backups restore lost data, ensuring minimal downtime. System health monitoring alerts administrators for swift intervention. This comprehensive approach guarantees business continuity, safeguarding against data loss and service interruption in real-time. For example,

• Automatic Failover: MegaMart has implemented Oracle Full Stack DR with a secondary data center in a geographically separate location. Upon detecting the outage at the primary site, Full Stack DR automatically initiates a failover.

• Rapid Recovery: Within minutes, the entire stack – database, compute instances, applications – is seamlessly switched over to the secondary data center. The standby database, which has been continuously synchronized with the primary, becomes active.

Conclusion

The expansion of Full Stack Disaster Recovery to new regions underscores Oracle’s commitment to providing customers with robust and reliable disaster recovery solutions that meet the evolving needs of their businesses. By leveraging this service, customers can ensure the highest levels of availability and scalability for their applications, databases, and infrastructure, while also reducing the time and resources required for disaster recovery operations

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