Tessell For Oracle & Exadata On Azure Guide

Tessell for Oracle on Azure is a fully managed database-as-a-service that runs inside your Azure subscription. It covers Oracle provisioning, HA and DR, backup, patching, security, monitoring, and lifecycle management from a unified control plane. This guide is a product reference that walks through Tessell's architecture, deployment models, performance benchmarks, security posture, migration paths, and SLAs. It also includes hands-on QuickStart steps along with Terraform and Azure DevOps automation examples. The tone is technical throughout, with portal screenshots, configuration tables, and reference architectures.

What is inside

• Two deployment models, Virtual Private Tessell (Tessell-managed subscription) and VPT @ Customer (BYOA into your own Azure subscription), onboarded through ARM templates with a least-privilege Tessell Operator role

• Control and data plane separation, where the data plane sits inside your Azure subscription on Azure VM, Managed Disks, Blob Storage, VNet, Log Analytics, and Key Vault, so data never leaves your perimeter

• High-performance Lsv3 NVMe compute shapes ranging from 8 vCPUs at 400K IOPS up to 80 vCPUs at 3.8M IOPS, with a SLOB benchmark of 152,027 IOPS and 1,187 MB/s on the entry shape

• Availability and SLAs covering single-AZ HA (RTO <= 1 min), multi-AZ HA (RTO < 3 min), cross-region DR (RTO < 8 min, RPO < 5 min), and a 99.99% monthly uptime commitment with tiered Sev 1 to Sev 4 support

• Security and data governance through SOC 2 Type II, encryption with BYOK, SSL, IP whitelisting, plus the Availability Machine, Dataflix, and Data Access Policies for snapshot sharing, sanitization, and point-in-time recovery

• Oracle migration paths using Data Guard, RMAN, Data Pump, and GoldenGate, plus QuickStart provisioning of Oracle 19c SE2 through the portal, Terraform, or an Azure DevOps pipeline, with BYOA pricing and MACC credit eligibility

Who is this for

Oracle DBAs, database architects, platform engineering teams, and IT leaders evaluating a managed Oracle service on Azure or planning a migration from on-premises, OCI, or Exadata. The guide walks through Tessell's architecture, deployment models, performance benchmarks, security posture, SLAs, and migration paths, with hands-on QuickStart and Terraform examples. A product reference for evaluation and architecture decisions. Validate against your own workload through a POC before production deployment.

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