Chapter 1 Concept, Architecture and Life Cycle of Oracle Private Cloud Appliance

Table of Contents

1.1 What is Oracle Private Cloud Appliance
1.2 Hardware Components
1.2.1 Management Nodes
1.2.2 Compute Nodes
1.2.3 Storage Appliance
1.2.4 Network Infrastructure
1.3 Software Components
1.3.1 Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Dashboard
1.3.2 Password Manager (Wallet)
1.3.3 Oracle VM Manager
1.3.4 Operating Systems
1.3.5 Databases
1.3.6 Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Management Software
1.3.7 Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Diagnostics Tool
1.4 Provisioning and Orchestration
1.4.1 Appliance Management Initialization
1.4.2 Compute Node Discovery and Provisioning
1.4.3 Server Pool Readiness
1.5 High Availability
1.6 Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Backup
1.7 Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Software Update

This chapter describes what Oracle Private Cloud Appliance (PCA) is, which hardware and software it consists of, and how it is deployed as a virtualization platform.

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