A POC with one or many RDBMSs can be a complex undertaking. To ensure that the full benefit of the Delphix Engine is realised for your specific use case scenarios, Delphix strongly encourages engaging with our Professional Services team. It would be daunting to contemplate managing purely through the community forum.
As for the approach, the documentation should be considered the source of truth. The minimum requirements are documented at
https://docs.delphix.com/docs/architecture-best-practicesAreas which are most likely to present problems are implementing the Delphix Engine into an environment that too closely reflects your live infrastructure. Having to deal with LDAP integration, non standard privilege elevation (third party sudo management) on UNIX or cross domain trust policies on Windows greatly complicates things. If possible, keep the POC as simple as possible to demonstrate core functionality and then refine the configuration from there.
- Go slowly.
- Use simple highly permissive sudo profiles on UNIX
- Use the same Windows domain user if possible across all Windows hosts
- Keep the Oracle and MSSQL implementations as close to plain vanilla configurations as possible (no ASM, PDBs, third party MSSQL backup tools etc).
- Ensure the source and target hosts are all in the supported OS matrix.
The Delphix Engine supports a large variety of configurations to make it usable in a wide variety of heterogeneous and fairly idiosyncratic customer environments. However, these do require more advanced planning and implementation and are, if possible, best left for post POC live implementations.
If you are not in a position to use our Professional Services team, then the advice to keep things simple at first is even more important since any issues will have to be self resolved or via the experiences of the community forum - which is good but our support team is much better equipped to deal with issues.