Vector Solutions

Vector Solutions serves a broad range of industries with award-winning online education, safety, compliance, and performance optimization solution suites. It offers industry-focused, innovative products to solve their clients’ needs, helping them improve outcomes, optimize performance and reduce risk. Vector Solutions offers number of brands for different streams.

Challenge

  • Consolidation of infrastructure and tools across acquisitons and subsidiaries
  • Migration of applications from Rackspace to AWS
  • Automate the existing manual processes for provisioning and configuring applications

Solution Delivered to Meet Challenges

  • Greenfield approach was choosen for this solutioning
  • Different environments have to share common data for that VPC peering was called upon as recommendation
  • Different environments and modules were deployed, some in warm and other in cold

Architecture Diagram

Vector Solutions – AWS Database Migration

AWS Services Used

  • AWS Oracle RDS
  • AWS EC2
  • AWS ALB
  • AWS ASG
  • AWS KMS
  • AWS FSx
  • AWS Directory Service
  • AWS SFTP
  • AWS API Gateway
  • AWS S3
  • AWS Lambda (Python)
  • AWS Cloudformation
  • AWS Cloudwatch
  • AWS VPC
  • AWS SNS/SQS
  • AWS SSM Parameter Store
  • AWS Secrets Manager
  • AWS IAM
  • AWS ACM

Database Workload Migration Details

  • Source DB: 1 Oracle on Rackspace
  • Target DB: 1 RDS Oracle on AWS
  • Number of Schemas Migrated: 500+
  • Size of Migrated Data: 500+ GB
  • Oracle on Rackspace VM -> Oracle on RDS

Migration Patterns Used

By and Large re-platform pattern was used for server (application servers, utility servers, reporting servers, email servers, compile/rebuild servers and database servers) making some changes to enable these for cloud agnostics.

Migration Tools Used

  • Oracle Data pump
  • Standby Database using RMAN

Third-Party Tools Used

  • Robocopy
  • Powershell
  • Terraform
  • Chef

About NorthBay

We are a fast-growing, 100% AWS focused onshore/offshore AWS Premier Consulting Partner, supporting our customers to accelerate the reinvention of their applications and data for a Cloud-native world. Our >350 AWS Certified Employees excel in developing and deploying Database & Application Migrations, Data Lakes and Analytics, Machine Learning/AI, DevOps and Application and Data Modernization/Development that drive measurable business impact.