This chapter describes conceptual principles of the Oracle Private Cloud at Customer offering, and the architecture around which the system is built.
For years, Oracle Private Cloud Appliance has been combining cloud simplicity, agility and elasticity with deployment inside customer data centers, in order to run Oracle and non-Oracle workloads. Oracle Private Cloud at Customer provides essentially the same capabilities, with only a few minor differences due to the infrastructure being managed by Oracle but deployed inside your own data center.
A web-based self-service management interface, Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c, gives the customer interactive access to service administration functions. Because the Oracle Private Cloud at Customer environment is hosted inside your data center, no firewall is implemented to govern client access. However, you are free to implement additional firewalls within your network if desired.
Figure 3.1 shows a high-level view of the Oracle Private Cloud at Customer architecture in a single diagram.
Oracle monitors and manages the Oracle Private Cloud at Customer infrastructure components, including the physical compute node hardware, network switches, power distribution units (PDUs), Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager interfaces (ILOMs), and the storage. These operations are performed remotely by Oracle using the Oracle Advanced Support Gateway, which may be located inside your network DMZ.
The technical architecture for Oracle Private Cloud at Customer is essentially the same as for an on-premise implementation of Oracle Private Cloud Appliance combined with an external Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS7-2.
Figure 3.3 On-Premise Implementation of Oracle Private Cloud Appliance with Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS7-2
Each deployment of Oracle Private Cloud at Customer can be scaled from the minimum of 2 compute nodes to a maximum of 25. The deployment includes a Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS7-2, which provides 200TB of block and fie storage for use by guest VMs hosted on the compute nodes. All components of the platform are connected together with high-speed, low-latency InfiniBand fabric (40Gbit QDR), and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE). Oracle Private Cloud at Customer also integrates seamlessly with Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, as shown below.
