Oracle Private Cloud Appliance

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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• Jucesp rapidly deploys services (0:48)

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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• Read about “ultra-converged infrastructure” (PDF)

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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• Technical brief: Deploying web and application tiers on Oracle Private Cloud Appliance/Private Cloud@Customer (PDF)

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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• Hybrid cloud management within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (PDF)

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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• Learn about deploying application containers (PDF)

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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• Learn about DR using Site Guard (PDF)
• Coalfire report: Oracle Private Cloud Appliance and PCI Compliance (PDF)

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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• Oracle Private Cloud Appliance X9-2 Datasheet (PDF)