Data Transfer Appliance. It’s recommended if you’re moving more than 20tb of data, or data that would take more than a week to upload. The entitlement request is approved once the signature is received.
Data is automatically encrypted and transferred to the appliance. Snowball is similar device which use in the amazon web services to migrate the data offline in to the aws cloud platform. This is a high capacity storage appliance which can be loan from oracle for about 30 days and copy your data and ship back to oracle transfer office.
The minimum type of data you must transfer from your existing vcenter server appliance external database to upgrade or migrate to a functioning vcenter server appliance.
The physical device is designed to reduce the lengthy transfer times, and potential security risks, that come with migrating data over the internet and into the public cloud. Your data is encrypted automatically, and remains safe until you decrypt it. Move your data to azure using common copy tools such as robocopy. This is a high capacity storage appliance which can be loan from oracle for about 30 days and copy your data and ship back to oracle transfer office.
