Initial Provisioning
Select the Provisioning app on the left-hand menu bar
On the Provisioning screen, enter a Service Name and Service Description.
Create a new database
Select the Database Engine from the options available: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server. In this example, we will choose Oracle.
Select the Database Edition; this will be dependent on the licenses that you have from Oracle.
Select the Software Release that you would like to use for this instance.
You can select a specific version of this release to run by clicking on the pencil icon and selecting the appropriate version number.
Click on the Next button to continue.
Choose a Cloud Provider
On this next screen, you will choose the cloud provider and subscription where you want to run this database instance.
Choose the Subscription from the drop-down.
Select a region to deploy from the drop-down.
In this example, we will select US East (N. Virginia)
Select an Availability Zone to deploy to from the drop-down
In this example, we will select us-east-1a
Click Next to continue.
Select a Compute Shape
The next option is to select a Compute Shape for this instance; in most cases, the Tessell team will work with you to select an appropriate shape based on your performance requirements.
Select a Workload Type
High Performance or Standard (Default)
Once you have selected High Performance or Standard, you can choose the vCPUs your instance will require.
Note: This will adjust the Compute Shapes that are available to you in the Compute Shape drop-down
Select the Compute Shape that you’d like to use for this instance.
Select the amount of storage that this instance will require.
In this example, we will use the standard 50GB of storage.
By default, Tessell will provide Encryption at rest using the default encryption key. You can select your own encryption key here if applicable.
Click Next to continue.
Define Connectivity
Select a VPC and a port number for your connection.
Select if you would like to Enable SSL.
Select if you would like to enable Public Access and which IP Addresses should be allowed. Your detected public IP address should be automatically selected.
Configure the database instance
Enter the Database Name, Master Username, and Master Password. Please note this information in a secure location.
You can choose additional Advanced Configuration options by clicking on the arrow next to the Advanced Configuration box.
Click Next to continue.
Multi-AZ Configuration
Select if you’d like to Create a Multi-AZ Service. In this example, we will leave this option unchecked and configure an additional instance later on.
Click Next to continue.
Maintenance Settings
Click next to continue.