1.3 Feature Description

Oracle Private Cloud at Customer includes the following features:

  • Easily extensible platform, managed by Oracle: Customers select the initial configuration that suits their requirements. Oracle installs, configures and manages the private cloud infrastructure, allowing the customer to focus on deploying their business-critical applications and services. When the platform reaches its limits, capacity can be easily extended.

  • Rapid application stack deployment, not just infrastructure: Support for ready-to-run Oracle VM Assemblies enables users to rapidly deploy not only the infrastructure, but also the applications that are hosted on the infrastructure.

  • Support for a wide variety of guest operating systems: Support for Linux, Oracle Solaris, and Windows operating systems and applications.

  • Converged infrastructure orchestration software: The Controller Software orchestrates automated discovery, configuration, and management of included server, network, and storage resources. It allows Oracle to provision the infrastructure in the customer data center in a short amount of time.

  • Unified, software-defined network fabric: Incorporated Oracle Software Defined Networking hardware provides a single, consolidated fabric allowing new networks to be dynamically added and existing networks to be modified without the need to manually modify cabling. Oracle manages these configuration tasks for you remotely.

  • Unified management: Browser-based management software, Oracle Enterprise Manager, centralizes administrative operations and provides at-a-glance status for all monitoring targets. Role-based access control permits secure private cloud platform administration and usage across users and groups with different rights. Oracle manages all infrastructure through the Oracle Advanced Support Gateway; the customer manages VM provisioning through the Oracle Enterprise Manager IaaS self-service portal.