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Protecting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Veeam: A Build-It-Yourself Walkthrough for VMs, Databases & Storage

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Field Implementation Guide · Backup & Recovery Protecting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Veeam a build-it-yourself walkthrough for VMs, databases & storage 📅 July 07, 2026 🏷️ Veeam · OCI · RMAN · SOBR  ⏱ 30 min read What this walkthrough gets you A working Veeam Data Platform deployment that protects three distinct estates on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: native OCI Compute instances (agent-based), Oracle Cloud VMware Solution guest VMs (agentless, image-level), and Oracle Database (RMAN-driven). It ends with a tiered repository built on OCI's own storage services, so nothing here depends on a foreign cloud's object store. Stack & versions used in this write-up Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3 Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN 6.x Veeam Agent for Linux/Windows 6.x OCI Compute · VM.Standard.E5 OCI Object Storage (S3-compatible endpoint) OCI File Storage (NFS) Oracle DB 19c / 23ai Terraform 1.7 · Ansible 2.16 On this page 01 Why OCI needs a different playbook 02 ...
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Terraform vs Bicep vs ARM Templates: Which Infrastructure as Code Tool Should You Choose in 2026?

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Terraform vs Bicep vs ARM Templates: Which Infrastructure as Code Tool Should You Choose in 2026? A practitioner's deep-dive into modern Infrastructure as Code for Azure, OCI, and multi-cloud environments. 📅 July 03, 2026 🏷️Terraform ·BICEP ·ARM  ⏱ 20 min read Article Overview: If you deploy anything to the cloud in 2026, you have almost certainly faced this question: should our infrastructure live in Terraform , Azure Bicep , or classic ARM Templates ? All three get the job done. All three are declarative. And yet the choice you make will shape your hiring, your CI/CD pipelines, your governance model, and how painful your next cloud migration feels. For those of us who work across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Microsoft Azure — a very common combination in enterprises running Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Database, and Azure-hosted application tiers — this decision has an extra dimension that pure-Azure guides usually ignore. This post walks through the three tools f...
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