Oracle Private Cloud at Customer can be deployed as an extension of the compute capacity for an existing Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer system. For this configuration, the networking and monitoring of both systems must be integrated to operate as a single entity.

The key element in the integration of the two systems is high speed Ethernet. Both Oracle systems are equipped with redundant 10GbE connections to the customer data center network. Network performance between the two systems depends on the bandwidth and latency of the data center network. It is possible to optimize the data path by assigning a dedicated custom network from Oracle Private Cloud at Customer to the next-level data center switches, and then configuring the data center network to direct the traffic through a separate high-performance network segment or VLAN routed to the Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer.

The system administration networks are also joined together to form a single gigabit Ethernet network. It connects the management interfaces of the servers and interface components, and allows the Oracle Advanced Support Gateway to monitor the entire integrated system. Since only a single support gateway is required, the monitoring services for Oracle Private Cloud at Customer are added to the existing gateway of the Exadata system.

From an administrative user perspective, the two systems are accessed separately. The Oracle Cloud Control Plane provides the cloud management interface to Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, while a customer-accessible instance of Oracle Enterprise Manager is used to manage the virtual machines and their underlying resources within the Oracle Private Cloud at Customer environment.