Cloud Classic

Infrastructure Tuned for Oracle Workloads
Integrated infrastructure services that enable businesses to optimally run Oracle workloads in an enterprise cloud managed, hosted, and supported by Oracle.

Upgrade your classic services to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, our next-gen infrastructure, offers better performance and more features at the same or lower cost than Classic regions. If you use services in Classic regions, learn how to easily move your workloads.

Cloud Classic products

Reliability Mechanisms

  • Hardware Isolation
    Launch Dedicated Instances on single-tenant hardware with network isolation.
  • Backup and Recovery
    Snapshot the instances to recover or build new instances.
  • OCPU Pinning
    Allocate OCPUs to VM instance to prevent over subscription.
  • Instance Anti-Affinity
    Control instance placement and distribute workloads.

Service Management

  • Instance Lifecycle Management
    Create, manage, stop and terminate images of different sizes and configurations.
  • Image Management
    Provision virtual machines using pre-packaged images or build and manage your own images.
  • Monitoring
    Monitor usage and performance metrics.
  • Alerts and Notifications
    Create rule based alerts and get event based notifications.

Virtual Networking and Security

  • Software Defined Network (SDN)
    Define and manage network topologies and traffic within Compute Classic.
  • Virtual Private Network (VPN)
    Connect on-premises resources to dedicated compute zones in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
  • Dynamic Firewall
    Control network traffic among individual instances and/or between groups of instances.
  • Secure SSH Access
    Access Compute Classic instances from a remote host by using a secure shell.

Cloud Tooling

  • Orchestration Management
    Automate provisioning and lifecycle operations of virtual compute topologies.
  • Cloud Conductor
    Design, implement, and automatically scale complex application architectures.
  • REST API
    Provision and manage instances and the associated resources programmatically.
  • CLI Tools
    Manage instances, storage, networking, and SSH keys through comprehensive set of CLI commands.

Reliability Mechanisms

  • Availability Domains
    Distribute instances into multiple isolated locations for redundancy and high availability.
  • Backup and Recovery
    Snapshot the instances to recover or build new instances.
  • OCPU Pinning
    Allocate OCPUs to VM instance to prevent over subscription.
  • Instance Anti-Affinity
    Control instance placement and distribute workloads.

Service Management

  • Instance Lifecycle Management
    Create, manage, stop and terminate images of different sizes and configurations.
  • Image Management
    Provision virtual machines using pre-packaged images or build and manage your own images.
  • Monitoring
    Monitor usage and performance metrics.
  • Alerts and Notifications
    Create rule based alerts and get event based notifications.

Virtual Networking and Security

  • Software Defined Network (SDN)
    Define and manage network topologies and traffic within Compute Classic.
  • Virtual Private Network (VPN)
    Connect on-premises resources to dedicated compute zones in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
  • Dynamic Firewall
    Control network traffic among individual instances and/or between groups of instances.
  • Secure SSH Access
    Access Compute Classic instances from a remote host by using a secure shell.

Cloud Tooling

  • Orchestration Management
    Automate provisioning and lifecycle operations of virtual compute topologies.
  • Cloud Conductor
    Design, implement, and automatically scale complex application architectures.
  • REST API
    Provision and manage instances and the associated resources programmatically.
  • CLI Tools
    Manage instances, storage, networking, and SSH keys through comprehensive set of CLI commands.

Access

  • Centralized Control
    Multiple site to site tunnels can be setup with Compute Classic zone using one single UI.
  • Leverage Existing On Premise VPN Solutions
    Support for customer’s existing VPN Gateway or use Oracle’s Software VPN gateways (CSG).
  • Split Tunneling Support
    Instances can access internet and other Oracle services at the same time.

Security

  • Automated Key Creation, Distribution and Regeneration
    Symmetric keys for IPSec tunnels are generated and pushed to the CSGs from Service Control Point (SCP).
  • Strong Encryption
    All the data between customer’s data center and Compute Classic can be encrypted using 256 bit AES encryption.
  • Advanced NAT and PAT abilities
    New sites can be added quickly without renumbering sub networks or the networks of any existing site.

Management

  • Simple UI and API
    In a few simple steps, create your VPN gateway and VPN connection.
  • Enterprise Grade Performance
    Ensure additional security of your data that is sent from your data center to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure via the Internet.
  • Public IP Address
    Configure public IP addresses for Internet access.

Access

  • Multiple Tunnels
    Set up multiple site-to-site tunnels with your dedicated Compute Classic zone.
  • Subnet Range
    Configure a range of IP addresses for your Compute Classic instances.
  • Cloud Access
    Enable your Compute Classic instances to access other Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services.

Security

  • Configurable Pre-shared Key
    Take advantage of symmetric key encryption using Pre-shared keys. This feature increases security and overall performance. You can change or reset the key anytime.
  • Strong Encryption
    Benefit from 128-bit AES encryption of your data that is exchanged between your data center and Compute Classic.
  • High Availability
    Ensure high availability of your VPN connection to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. VPN devices are configured as a cluster.

Management

  • Simple UI and API
    In a few simple steps, create your VPN gateway and VPN connection.
  • Enterprise Grade Performance
    Ensure additional security of your data that is sent from your data center to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure via the Internet.
  • Public IP Address
    Configure public IP addresses for Internet access.

Simplify Datacenter Operations

  • Unmatched Low-Cost Archive
    Archive storage as low as $36 per TB per year.
  • Scale with No New Hardware
    Eliminates new capital expenditures, opens up data center space and reduces power and cooling requirements.
  • Elastic Storage
    Shared infrastructure allows for infinite scalability. Eliminates forecasting and long procurement cycles.
  • Pay as You Go and Subscription Models
    Purchase capacity with no commitment or reduce costs with longer-term agreements.

Data Security

  • Data at Rest
    Optional encryption at the Oracle data center. Client encrypted data is supported. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Storage Software Appliance provides encryption at the customer site.
  • Data in Transit
    SSL encrypts all data in transit.
  • Access Control
    Control which users have admin, read and write privileges at the container level.
  • Enterprise Data Centers
    World class enterprise data center operations.

Easy Access

  • Backup and Archive Application Integration
    Integration with top backup and archive applications eases deployment with minimal disruption.
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Storage Software Appliance
    An easy on-ramp to Oracle’s storage cloud providing a POSIX compliant NFS interface. Serves as a NAS gateway to the cloud.
  • Standards Based Developer Tooling
    OpenStack Swift based RestAPI, Java-based File Transfer Manager and, Shell scripting Upload CLI.
  • Robust Connectivity Options
    Simple connectivity through the public internet and FastConnect Classic for the most demanding workloads.

Robust Architecture

  • World-Class Data Durability
    11 9s data durability by maintaining multiple copies of each object on different devices. Periodic data integrity checks with self healing.
  • Privacy Aware
    Stored data is never moved out of designated geographic regions.

Simplify Datacenter Operations

  • Scale with No New Hardware
    Eliminates new capital expenditures, opens up data center space and reduces power and cooling requirements.
  • Elastic Storage
    Shared infrastructure allows for infinite scalability. Eliminates forecasting and long procurement cycles.
  • Pay as You Go and Subscription Models
    Purchase capacity with no commitment or reduce costs with longer-term agreements.
  • Simple to Manage
    Industry standard OpenStack and RESTful APIs streamline management integration, freeing resources to accelerate other cloud projects.

Data Security

  • Data at Rest
    Optional client data encryption combined with optional encryption at the Oracle data center provides multi-level data security. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Storage Software Appliance and Java SDK provide encryption at the customer site.
  • Data in Transit
    SSL encrypts all data in transit.
  • Role-Based Access Control
    Control which users have admin, read and write privileges at the container level.
  • Enterprise Data Centers
    World class enterprise data center operations.

Easy Access

  • Backup and Archive Application Integration
    Integration with top backup and archive applications eases deployment with minimal disruption.
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Storage Software Appliance
    An easy on-ramp to Oracle’s storage cloud providing a POSIX compliant NFS interface. Serves as a NAS gateway to the cloud.
  • Standards Based Developer Tooling
    OpenStack Swift based RestAPI, Java-based File Transfer Manager and, Shell scripting Upload CLI.
  • Robust Connectivity Options
    Simple connectivity through the public internet and FastConnect Classic for the most demanding workloads.

Robust Architecture

  • World-Class Data Durability
    11 9s data durability by maintaining multiple copies of each object on different devices. Periodic data integrity checks with self healing.
  • Geo-Replication
    Automated replication of data to a geographically distant data center.
  • Privacy Aware
    Stored data is never moved out of designated geographic regions.

Easy Storage

  • Well Known Interface
    Connect applications to cloud storage using NFS – a widely used data protocol.
  • User Friendly
    Intuitive data access for you and your applications as well.
  • POSIX Compliant
    Access data with similar experience across various flavors of Unix/Linux NFS clients.
  • Automatic Translation
    Interface with data as files while stored as objects in the cloud.

Data Security

  • Encryption precedes transmission
    Easily encrypt your data using client-side encryption.
  • Free from All vs. Nothing
    Granular encryption allows you selectively encrypt sensitive data.
  • Strong Encryption Keys
    multi-tier key architecture with strong symmetric and asymmetric keys for maximum data security.
  • You own the keys
    You can generate keys on the appliance or bring your own encryption keys.

Data Protection

  • Data Integrity
    End to end Checksum verification helps in ensuring the data integrity.
  • Self Healing
    Data is actively monitored for degradation.
  • Built-in Resiliency
    Quick recovery from crash by spawning off new instance of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Storage Software Appliance.
  • Data Availability
    Regular metadata backup to cloud helps ensure data availability.

Data Caching

  • Near local NAS performance
    You can achieve near local NAS performance through buffer caching.
  • Configurable Cache
    You can configurable the cache to support your custom workloads.
  • Automatic cleanup
    Least Recently Used (LRU) algorithm to retain hot data in your cache.

N-Way Management

  • Browser based Admin UI
    Intuitive user interface to administer the appliance and to manage your data.
  • Command Line Interface
    For easy automation using shell scripts in your data center.
  • REST API
    Manage multiple deployment of the appliance from a centralized location.

General purpose instance types

The General Purpose shapes provide a balance of cores, memory and network resources. These shapes suitable for a wide range of applications and use cases.

Shape Intel® Xeon® Processor OCPU Memory (GB) Storage
OC3 2.2Ghz E5-2699C v4 1 7.5 Up to 20 TB of remote Block Volumes
OC4 2.2Ghz E5-2699C v4 2 15 Up to 20 TB of remote Block Volumes
OC5 2.2Ghz E5-2699C v4 4 30 Up to 20 TB of remote Block Volumes
OC6 2.2Ghz E5-2699C v4 8 60 Up to 20 TB of remote Block Volumes
OC7 2.2Ghz E5-2699C v4 16 120 Up to 20 TB of remote Block Volumes
OC8 2.2Ghz E5-2699C v4 24 180 Up to 20 TB of remote Block Volumes
OC9 2.2Ghz E5-2699C v4 32 240 Up to 20 TB of remote Block Volumes
OCM1 2.2Ghz E5-2699C v4 1 15 Up to 20 TB of remote Block Volumes
OCM2 2.2Ghz E5-2699C v4 2 30 Up to 20 TB of remote Block Volumes
OCM3 2.2Ghz E5-2699C v4 4 60 Up to 20 TB of remote Block Volumes
OCM4 2.2Ghz E5-2699C v4 8 120 Up to 20 TB of remote Block Volumes
OCM5 2.2Ghz E5-2699C v4 16 240 Up to 20 TB of remote Block Volumes
OCM8 2.2Ghz E5-2699C v4 24 360 Up to 20 TB of remote Block Volumes
OCM9 2.2Ghz E5-2699C v4 32 480 Up to 20 TB of remote Block Volumes