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Connectivity to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

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This section provides different connectivity approaches to integrate an Azure landing zone architecture to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

Design considerations:

  • Using ExpressRoute and FastConnect, customers can connect a virtual network in Azure with a virtual cloud network in OCI, if the private IP address space doesn't overlap. Once you establish connectivity, resources in the Azure virtual network can communicate with resources in the OCI virtual cloud network as if they were both in the same network.

  • Azure ExpressRoute FastPath is designed to improve the data path performance between two networks, both on-premises and Azure, and for this scenario, between OCI and Azure. When enabled, FastPath sends network traffic directly to virtual machines in the virtual network, bypassing the ExpressRoute gateway.

    • FastPath is available on all ExpressRoute circuits.

    • FastPath still requires a virtual network gateway to be created for route exchange purposes. The virtual network gateway must use either the Ultra Performance SKU or the ErGw3AZ SKU for the ExpressRoute gateway to enable route management.

  • There are features that are currently not supported in ExpressRoute FastPath, such as Azure Virtual WAN hubs or VNet peering.

  • While you can use ExpressRoute Global Reach to enable communication from on-premises to OCI via ExpressRoute circuits, it might incur more bandwidth costs that you can calculate by using the Azure pricing calculator. It's important to consider any extra costs when you migrate large amounts of data from on-premises to Oracle by using ExpressRoute circuits.

  • In Azure regions that support Availability Zones, placing your Azure workloads in one zone or the other can have a small effect on latency. Design your application to balance availability and performances requirements.

  • Interconnectivity between Azure and OCI is only available for specific regions.

  • For more in-depth documentation about interconnectivity between Azure and OCI, see Oracle application solutions to integrate Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or see Access to Microsoft Azure in OCI.

Design recommendations:

  • Create the ExpressRoute circuit that will be used to interconnect Azure with OCI in the connectivity subscription.

  • You can interconnect an Azure network architecture based on the traditional hub and spoke architecture or Azure Virtual WAN-based network topologies. It can be done by connecting the ExpressRoute circuit that will be used to interconnect Azure to OCI to the hub VNet or Virtual WAN hub as shown in the following diagram.

    Diagram that shows interconnectivity between Azure and O C I via ExpressRoute.

    Figure 1: Interconnectivity between Azure and OCI via ExpressRoute.

  • If your application requires the lowest possible latency between Azure and OCI, consider deploying your application in a single VNet with an ExpressRoute gateway and FastPath enabled.

    Diagram that shows Azure to O C I - single V Net.

    Figure 2: Interconnectivity between Azure and OCI with a single VNet.

  • When you deploy Azure resources across Availability Zones, perform latency tests from Azure VMs located in different Availability Zones to OCI resources to understand which of the three Availability Zones provides the lowest latency to the OCI resources.

  • To operate Oracle resources hosted in OCI by using Azure resources and technologies, you could:

    • From Azure: Deploy a jump box in a spoke VNet. The jump box provides access to the virtual cloud network in OCI as shown in the following picture:

      Diagram that shows Azure to OCI jump box on one VNet.

      Figure 3: Managing OCI resources from Azure via a jump box.

    • From on-premises: Use ExpressRoute Global Reach to bind an existing ExpressRoute circuit that connects on-premises to Azure, to an OCI ExpressRoute circuit that interconnects Azure to OCI. In this way, the Microsoft Enterprise Edge (MSEE) router becomes the central routing point between both ExpressRoute circuits.

      Diagram that shows Azure to OCI via Global Reach.

    Figure 4: Managing OCI resources from on-premises via ExpressRoute Global Reach.

Next steps

For information on connectivity to other cloud providers, see Connectivity to other cloud providers.