Oracle Private Cloud Appliance
Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is a highly scalable, integrated system that makes it easy for customers to deploy and manage diverse workloads on multiple operating systems, utilizing APIs and management tools that are compatible with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Customers can develop containerized, cloud native applications using architectural patterns and tools that are consistent infrastructure-as-code environments across private and public clouds. Private Cloud Appliance runs mission-critical enterprise applications in high-performance virtual machines and offers trusted partition licensing that reduces Oracle Database and applications software costs by much as 85%, as described in ESG’s analysis (PDF).
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Private Cloud Appliance features
Key differentiators
Prebuilt for faster deployment
Integrated infrastructure, virtualization, and management accelerates deployment times so customers' databases are up and running within hours instead of days or weeks. (PDF)
Integration simplifies management
Built-in, full-stack management and patching speeds application deployment while reducing workload and OpEx for customers’ IT departments.
Portability between public and private clouds
OCI-compatible APIs and management tools enable customers to create and deploy applications in consistent infrastructure-as-code environments on a private cloud and in OCI.
Trusted partitions reduce software costs
Trusted partitions using fixed VM shapes enable companies to license software on small portions of the Private Cloud Appliance. Reducing the number of software licenses needed lowers the cost for companies to run Oracle Database and applications by up to 85% compared to other solutions, as highlighted in the ICA Gruppen AB customer story.
Integrated software reduces costs
The Oracle Linux and Oracle Solaris operating systems and the Oracle Cloud Native Environment, as well as KVM virtualization software, are included along with the support contract to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO).
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Deployment automation
Automatic configuration speeds network setup
High-performance, low-latency software-defined networking (SDN) automates compute and storage network configuration so customers can be running workloads on optimized infrastructure in days, instead of weeks (PDF).
Container automation simplifies application deployment
The fully integrated Oracle Cloud Native Environment enables enterprises to easily automate the deployment, scaling, and management of application containers with Kubernetes.
Rapid design and prototyping
OCI Designer Toolkit is a standalone, open source design tool for Oracle Cloud which enables customers to rapidly design and prototype Private Cloud Appliance infrastructure.
Integrated management simplifies IT tasks
Terraform scripts simplify IT manager tasks by automating infrastructure provisioning. Administrators manage Oracle Private Cloud Appliance from a single dashboard.
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Lower costs
Complete solution reduces integration costs
A prebuilt, integrated solution with hardware, software, and management provides customers with agile, intelligent infrastructure at a lower price than DIY alternatives. (PDF)
Inclusive pricing eliminates hidden costs
Oracle Cloud Native Environment, KVM virtualization, and Oracle operating system software are included at no added cost.
Trusted partitions reduce software costs
Flexible software licensing with Oracle trusted partitions lowers software licensing costs by up to 85%, as highlighted in the ICA Gruppen AB customer story.
Simple scaling aligns capacity to demand
Compute nodes can be added or removed from Oracle Private Cloud Appliance configurations without downtime to maximize application uptime and minimize TCO.
Single-vendor solution lowers support costs
Oracle support with bundled, full-stack patching simplifies the troubleshooting and patching of customer application infrastructure while reducing IT operations, compared to multivendor, DIY solutions (PDF).
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Performance and scale
High-performance servers run applications quickly
Each compute node uses the latest Intel® Xeon® processors with 64 CPU cores and 1TB of memory to run customer workloads at top speed.
Optimizations accelerate applications
Full-stack performance optimizations accelerate crucial customer workloads by up to 40% compared to traditional DIY architectures, as described in CSP Brazil’s video.
Built-in storage speeds diverse workloads
A high-performance Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance is tightly integrated into every Private Cloud Appliance, so I/O intensive customer workloads such as OLTP, data warehousing, and heavily virtualized environments run as fast as possible.
Simple scaling eases growth
Independent scaling of compute resources from 180 to 1,080 CPU cores and storage from 180 TB to more than 8 PB of usable capacity enables customers to economically meet evolving workload requirements.
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Integrated management
Converged networking eliminates complexity
Built-in software-defined networking operates multiple internal networks over a single physical one, reducing the complexity of customer IT deployments and cutting workloads for network management teams.
Comprehensive monitoring and visualization
Prometheus and Grafana provide monitoring and visualization solutions that simplify customer IT team workloads by enabling full-stack solution management, including Kubernetes container deployments.
Real-time insights speed troubleshooting
Advanced management and analytics enable enterprises to quickly understand why individual workloads create performance-limiting congestion.
Multitenancy increases security
Cloud-like tenancy and granular storage encryption enables companies to support up to 8 separate customer-managed tenancies per system.
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Cloud-ready
Cloud portability
Private Cloud Appliance enables customers to more easily migrate infrastructure configuration, workloads, and data between private and public clouds using OCI-compatible APIs and tools.
Consistent development experience
Deploying workloads in both Oracle Private Cloud Appliance and Oracle Cloud provides customers with a consistent development experience, including the use of the same APIs and tools.
Cloud native support simplifies development
The Oracle Cloud Native Environment enables developers to quickly create and easily scale containerized applications using Kubernetes.
Common capabilities reduce management
Tooling, operational approaches, and skill sets that are common between Private Cloud Appliance and OCI reduce management duplication and speed time to value when deploying applications, components, and middleware across their cloud and on-premises environments.
Kubernetes increases workload portability
The Kubernetes Engine dashboard automates container creation for clusters, services, and logs so customer applications can easily move between on-premises and cloud environments.
Full-stack management reduces IT workloads
Full integration, management automation, and single-bundle patching reduce the need for IT teams to maintain costly staffing in remote customer locations.
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High availability
Proven technology increases availability
The same proven technologies used in Oracle Exadata and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure maximize uptime for customer workloads.
High availability design increases uptime
A high availability architecture with three fault domains for compute and no single point of failure for storage and networking enables crucial customer applications to run through device failures.
Single-bundle patch upgrades eliminate downtime
Appliance patching, maintenance, and upgrades can be completed without interrupting operations using zero downtime appliance upgrades.
Built-in business continuity enables 24/7 operations
Built-in VM-level disaster recovery utilizing Oracle Site Guard between multiple locations enables IT teams to quickly restore normal customer operations in case of an emergency.
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Product details
Embedded software reduces management workloads
Embedded controller software streamlines installation in customer data centers while reducing configuration and management by IT teams.
Integrated management simplifies IaaS deployments
Central monitoring, metering, and self-service portal capabilities make it easy for IT teams to deploy infrastructure as-a-service (IaaS) capabilities.
Isolation enables secure multitenancy
Eight isolated tenancies enable secure multitenant deployments in service provider and enterprise environments.
High-speed networking improves performance
100 GbE internal networking and a choice of 10/25/40/100 GbE connectivity to other systems in customer data centers maximize the performance of crucial application workloads.
Connectivity supports multitier application infrastructure
Directly connecting Oracle Private Cloud Appliance to Exadata provides customers high-performance and secure application to database connectivity for creating a scalable, multitier application infrastructure.
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Previewing Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer—OCI compute services in your data center
Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer brings OCI compute services to your data center so you can use cloud automation to operate more efficiently and at a lower cost. By running cloud native and traditional applications on the same fully managed cloud platform in your data center, you’ll need fewer resources and easily move workloads to and from the cloud. Combining Compute Cloud@Customer with Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer gives you an optimized OCI experience in your data center, lets you integrate hybrid cloud compute and database resources with current data center capabilities, and helps you meet requirements for data residency and privacy.
Hybrid cloud compute
Run applications and middleware on optimized OCI infrastructure with flexible virtual machine shapes.
Cloud native
Create and deploy your applications and microservices using the same APIs, cloud native tools, and cloud management console available in OCI.
Flexible virtual machine shapes
Increase operational efficiency and reduce costs by using only the vCPUs, memory, and storage needed for each workload.
Cloud native management
Use OCI compute, networking, and storage capabilities and APIs so a single Terraform script can provision services and applications in your data center or OCI.
Cost-effective
Pay for only the resources you consume with flexible compute and storage subscriptions and a consumption-based pricing model.
Data privacy and residency
Maintain full control over your data’s location and always encrypt it to help meet data privacy and residency requirements.
Scalable cloud resources
Get started using cost-effective OCI compute capabilities and consumption-based pricing in your data center and grow them as needed.
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Oracle Private Cloud Appliance customer successes
Customers worldwide use Oracle Private Cloud Appliance to consolidate business-critical Oracle workloads with automated management, multitenancy, and low costs.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory lowers administrative costs by consolidating 300 servers on 6 Oracle Private Cloud Appliance systems to capture gigabytes of data per year from the Deep Space Network
Oracle Private Cloud Appliance use cases
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Host secure, multitenant private clouds
Create a secure, highly available, multitenant private cloud using Oracle Private Cloud Appliance so end-user customers can quickly deploy high-performance applications while tightly managing their costs.
See how Revera uses Oracle engineered systems to provide cloud services (1:37)
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Simplify workload support
Reduce the complexity of supporting enterprise and cloud native workloads while increasing their performance with a scalable Oracle Private Cloud Appliance.
See how CSP Brazil achieved a 40% performance improvement and reliable services for end users (1:27)
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Meet financial regulations using a private cloud
Create a cardholder data environment that helps merchants comply with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard requirements using Oracle Private Cloud Appliance.
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Lower application infrastructure costs
Reduce the total cost of running Oracle applications and databases by up to 85% with Private Cloud Appliance’s trusted partitioning licensing, cost-effective scalability, and management automation.
Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer—hybrid cloud compute for your data center
Krishna Srinivasan, Director of Product Management, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
“We’re pleased to preview the Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer platform, which will allow organizations to run application and middleware deployed on optimized OCI infrastructure with flexible virtual machine (VM) shapes in their data centers. With Compute Cloud@Customer, organizations will easily be able to consolidate workloads on a fully managed cloud platform while using cloud-native tools and OCI’s cost-effective consumption model to streamline operations and reduce costs.”
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