Accelerating Oracle Cloud with Rackware: Key Takeaways from the Multi-Cloud Mobility Webinar
At iArch Solutions, we spend a lot of time helping Oracle customers modernize mission-critical workloads—EPM, Essbase, analytics, and surrounding applications. Increasingly, that story isn’t just about moving to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI); it’s about doing it faster, safer, and with stronger disaster recovery built in from day one.
That’s why the recent Rackware webinar on their Multi-Cloud Mobility and Resilience Platform caught our attention. It aligned almost perfectly with the challenges we see in the field and the outcomes our clients are asking for.
Below is a recap of what was covered—and how iArch plans to apply it with Oracle customers.
Rackware in a Sentence: Multi-Cloud Mobility & Resilience for Oracle
Rackware positions itself as a multi-cloud mobility and resilience platform, built around three core capabilities:
Rackware Assess – Cloud readiness & TCO assessment
Rackware Migration – Any-to-any workload migration
Rackware Disaster Recovery & Backup – Policy-driven resilience and business continuity
Together, these map cleanly to the typical cloud journey we see with Oracle clients:
Plan – Understand readiness, cost, and architecture
Execute – Move workloads into OCI and Oracle Distributed Cloud
Protect – Establish disaster recovery and backup for critical systems
Optimize – Monitor, right-size, and tune performance and costs over time
For iArch customers, that end-to-end framing is important. We’re not just lifting and shifting; we’re designing Oracle environments that stay resilient and cost-effective long after go-live.
Phase 1: Rackware Assess – Getting Oracle Cloud-Ready
The webinar started with Rackware Assess, the discovery and assessment capability that supports organizations on their way to Oracle Cloud.
What it does:
Scans infrastructure and applications to build a clear picture of the current estate
Evaluates cloud readiness for target platforms (e.g., OCI, Oracle Distributed Cloud)
Calculates Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for cloud vs. current environment
Helps identify dependencies, sizing needs, and migration priorities
For iArch, this is highly complementary to our architecture and advisory work:
We can start with Rackware’s view of the technical baseline,
Layer on our EPM/Essbase and finance-specific requirements,
And quickly converge on a realistic roadmap to Oracle Cloud—rather than guesswork and Excel.
Phase 2: Rackware Migration – True Any-to-Any into Oracle Cloud
The core of the webinar focused on Rackware’s any-to-any migration capability. When they say “any-to-any,” they mean:
Sources: physical, virtual, on-prem data centers, other hyperscalers, private cloud, containers
Targets: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle Distributed Cloud, PCA, KVM, C3, and other Oracle virtualization platforms
For iArch’s Oracle clients, this means we can move:
Mixed VMware + legacy hardware into OCI
On-prem EPM/Essbase stacks into Oracle Cloud
Containerized workloads into Oracle Kubernetes
File System–Level Migration: Why It Matters
Rackware’s approach is file system–level migration at the operating system layer, not application-specific agents. That architecture brings some real advantages:
Agentless by default – Nothing installed on the source servers for most use cases
Consistent workflow – Same process whether you’re moving from VMware, bare metal, or another cloud
Supports complex enterprises – Different hypervisors, storage types, and hardware all handled by the same engine
In practice, this means:
Less friction with security teams
Fewer moving parts to maintain
A cleaner, more predictable path for large-scale Oracle migrations
Auto-Provisioning and Delta Syncs
The live demo in the webinar walked through a full migration from on-prem VMware to OCI:
RMM (Rackware Management Module) sits in the destination (OCI)—deployed from the Oracle Marketplace as a Linux VM.
RMM connects to the source via SSH and gathers metadata (OS, layout, resources).
It uses OCI APIs to auto-provision target instances:
Matching CPU, memory, and disk layout
Using OCI shapes selected based on source specs (with the option to right-size)
RMM boots the target into Rackware’s microkernel, formats storage, and syncs data live.
After the first full sync, it performs incremental delta syncs until cutover.
During cutover:
Applications are quieted on the source
A final delta sync is run
Traffic is cut over to OCI
The new environment becomes production
There’s no downtime during initial syncs and minimal downtime during cutover. For Oracle EPM, Essbase, and analytics workloads—where maintenance windows are tight—this is a huge benefit.
Phase 3: Rackware Disaster Recovery – Business Continuity on OCI and Beyond
The other half of Rackware’s value is in Disaster Recovery and Backup. The webinar broke this down in both architecture and real use cases.
DR Architecture Overview
In a DR scenario:
RMM runs in the target (e.g., an OCI tenancy).
Block storage attached to the RMM VM stores disk images for protected workloads.
Sync happens in two stages:
Stage 1 – Source → image on RMM storage
Stage 2 – Image → DR compute instances
Rackware supports multiple DR deployment models:
Hot DR – Always-on DR compute, lowest RTO, highest cost
Warm DR (pre-provisioned, powered off) – Target VMs exist but are powered down until needed
Cold/Dynamic DR – DR compute provisioned on demand during a failover
And crucially, DR operations like failover and fallback are handled by one-click actions in the RMM UI:
Failover ensures data is up-to-date and boots DR instances
Fallback syncs data back from DR to primary and resumes operations from the original environment
For compliance and audits, Rackware also surfaces:
Last sync time
Average sync duration
Server protection status (exportable to CSV)
This lines up neatly with the governance frameworks many of our Oracle finance and operations customers are required to follow.
Compliance, Security, and Air-Gapped Deployments
Rackware emphasized strong support for high-compliance environments:
Aligns with government-grade frameworks such as IL-5 and FedRAMP-like architectures
Supports GDPR, DORA, and sovereign cloud needs
Runs inside the customer’s own tenancy, not as a SaaS platform
Key security characteristics:
RMM is a Linux VM running in the customer’s account
Data never leaves the customer’s environments
Uses SSH and standard hardened protocols
Naturally suited for air-gapped or highly restricted networks
For iArch clients in regulated industries—finance, utilities, public sector—this model fits very well with typical risk and compliance expectations.
Real-World Oracle Use Cases Highlighted in the Webinar
Two customer stories stood out as directly relevant to Oracle customers:
1. Telecom Migration from Complex Hybrid to Oracle PCA
A large telecom provider with a hybrid environment spanning Huawei, VMware, and CloudStack needed:
A secure, automated way to move into Oracle PCA
A solution that could handle multiple platforms without custom tooling for each
Rackware RMM:
Automated provisioning and migration
Used delta syncs and rapid cutovers
Reduced migration timelines by over 60%
This is exactly the kind of complexity we see in real Oracle migration projects—rarely clean, always mixed.
2. Renewable Energy DR with Strict Security Frameworks
A renewable energy company required:
Strict security and compliance controls
Automated failover and fallback
DR between on-prem and OCI with tailored RPO/RTO SLAs
Rackware delivered:
Customized DR policies per workload criticality
Automated orchestration for failover/fallback
A solution that fit tightly within their security posture
For many Oracle customers, this story aligns: critical infrastructure, high compliance, and no tolerance for DR that exists only on paper.
So Where Does iArch Solutions Come In?
Everything showcased in the webinar maps directly onto what our customers are asking us for:
Move to Oracle Cloud without multi-year risk and endless scripting
Establish real DR, not just backup files and untested runbooks
Keep options open for hybrid and multi-cloud strategies
With Rackware’s technology and iArch’s Oracle expertise, we see three immediate areas of impact:
Faster, lower-risk migrations into OCI
Using Rackware’s file-system, any-to-any migration
Layered with iArch’s EPM/Essbase, analytics, and infrastructure design experience
Modern Oracle-centric DR
Rackware DR for replication, policies, failover/fallback
iArch for architecture, integration with EPM and finance processes, and managed operations
Stronger Oracle Cloud story for our customers
Rackware’s tight integration with OCI (shapes, networking, IAM, monitoring)
Our ability to design, implement, and manage end-to-end Oracle platforms
What’s Next ?
At iArch Solutions, we see the Rackware platform as a meaningful step forward for Oracle customers who need both modernization and resilience at the same time. Our clients are telling us that migration and Disaster Recovery are no longer separate initiatives. They are part of a single strategy to create systems that are stable, compliant, and ready to support the business without disruption. Rackware gives us another proven tool to remove risk from that journey.
In the coming months, we will continue incorporating Rackware Assess and Migration into our Oracle Cloud planning and execution work. Our goal is to give clients a clear path into OCI that replaces uncertainty with confidence. We will also expand our Disaster Recovery offerings by pairing Rackware’s replication and automation capabilities with iArch’s architecture, integration, and managed operations experience. Together, these solutions help our clients build environments that stay reliable from day one and remain resilient as the business grows.
If you are exploring how to move complex Oracle workloads into OCI, strengthen your Disaster Recovery posture, or rethink your cloud strategy in a way that protects the business instead of exposing it to risk, we would be glad to talk about how iArch Solutions and Rackware can support that journey and give your team the confidence that your systems are as reliable as your business requires.