Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer is one of the Database services offered on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Oracle offers both autonomous and co-managed Oracle Database cloud solutions. For more information, see Overview of the Database Service.

With Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer, you can maintain absolute control over your data while leveraging the combined capabilities of Oracle Exadata and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure managed by Oracle.

Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer enables you to apply the combined power of Oracle Exadata and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure inside your own data center. You have full access to the features and capabilities of Oracle Database along with the intelligent performance and scalability of Oracle Exadata, but with Oracle owning and managing the Exadata infrastructure. You can use the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure console and APIs to manage Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer just as with any other cloud resource, while maintaining absolute sovereignty over your data.

Each Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer system configuration contains Oracle Exadata Database Servers and Oracle Exadata Storage Servers that are interconnected using a high-speed, low-latency RDMA fabric network, and intelligent Oracle Exadata software.

Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer uses virtual machine (VM) technology to separate the customer-managed and Oracle-managed components on each database server. You have root privilege for the Oracle Exadata database server VMs, so you can manage the Oracle Database, Oracle Grid Infrastructure, and Oracle Exadata system software. However, you do not have administrative access to the physical database server hardware, which Oracle administers.

Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer uses Oracle Exadata Storage Servers for database storage. The storage is allocated to disk groups managed by Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM). You have full administrative access to the Oracle ASM disk groups, but Oracle administers the Oracle Exadata Storage Server hardware and software.

In addition to the database server hardware and Oracle Exadata Storage Servers, Oracle also manages other Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer infrastructure components, including the network switches, power distribution units (PDUs), and integrated lights-out management (ILOM) interfaces.

On each Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer system, you can create one or more databases. Apart from the inherent storage and processing capacity of your Oracle Exadata system, there is no set maximum for the number of databases that you can create.

Subscription to Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer can include all of the required Oracle Database software licenses, or you can choose to bring Oracle Database software licenses that you already own to Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer.

If you choose to include Oracle Database software licenses in your Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer subscription, then the included licenses contain all of the features of Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, plus all of the database enterprise management packs, and all of the Enterprise Edition options, such as Oracle Database In-Memory and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC). Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer also comes with cloud-specific software tools that assist with administration tasks, such as backup, recovery, and patching.

Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer Gen2 uses for OCPUs.

Per-second billing means that OCPU usage is billed by the second, with a minimum usage period of 1 minute.

Learn about the versions of Oracle Database that Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer supports.

Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer supports the following Oracle Database software releases:

• Oracle Database 19c (19.x)
• Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2.0.1) is supported for approved customers only.
• Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.2). Creating or updating a 12.1.0.2 database with an RU later than July 2022 requires a valid Market Driven Support (MDS) contract.
• Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.4). Creating or updating an 11.2.0.4 database with PSU later than April 2021 requires a valid Market Driven Support (MDS) contract.

For Oracle Database release and software support timelines, see Release Schedule of Current Database Releases (Doc ID 742060.1) in the My Oracle Support portal.

Review the list of Exadata System Shapes

• System Configuration Options for Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer
  To meet the needs of your enterprise, you can select from one of the four Oracle Exadata X9M-2, X8M-2, X8-2, or X7-2 System Models.
• Oracle Exadata X9M-2 System Model Specifications
  Review the technical specifications of available Exadata System Shapes.
• Oracle Exadata X8M-2 System Model Specifications
  Review the technical specifications of available Exadata System Shapes.
• Oracle Exadata X8-2 System Model Specifications
  Review the technical specifications of available Exadata System Shapes.
• Oracle Exadata X7-2 System Model Specifications
  Review the technical specifications of available Exadata System Shapes.