Base Rack Components
Each Private Cloud Appliance consists of an Oracle Rack Cabinet 1242 base, populated with network, compute, and storage components. The appliance storage and compute capacity is customized to meet your capacity requirements. The control software is factory-installed on the 3 clustered management nodes.
Release 3.0.1 introduced the flex bay concept for rack space management. Flex bays are dedicated 4 rack unit sections within the rack that can be used for flexible expansion. A flex bay can house either storage or compute resources, but not both in the same bay.
Private Cloud Appliance exists in the following rack configurations:
- Oracle Private Cloud Appliance X10
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The X10 rack configuration is shipping as of December 2023. It comes with factory-installed software version 3.0.2-b1001356 or newer, and contains Oracle Server X10 compute nodes (2U).
- Oracle Private Cloud Appliance X9-2
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The X9 rack configuration ships with factory-installed software version 3.0.1 or 3.0.2. It contains Oracle Server X9-2 compute nodes (1U).
The component order and cabling are slightly different between these rack configurations. The storage and network infrastructure components are the same. In terms of compute capacity, a 2U compute node is comparable to two 1U compute nodes.
X10 Rack Configuration
The Private Cloud Appliance hardware platform in X10 configuration, is factory-installed with appliance software release 3.0.2-b1001356 or newer. Its hardware components are identified in the figure below. This figure shows a fully populated rack, however you can customize your rack configuration to include different storage or compute capacity as needed.
The flex bays are dedicated 4 rack unit sections within the rack that can be used for flexible expansion. For each flex bay, you can choose to add 1-2 compute nodes, 1 Oracle Storage Drive Enclosure DE3-24C, or 1-2 Oracle Storage Drive Enclosure DE3-24P. A flex bay can house either storage or compute resources, but not both in the same bay.
Rack units 39 and 40 are reserved for systems with 6 or more compute nodes: 3 default nodes plus 3 or more expansion nodes. Compute nodes 4 and 5 are installed in the flex bay directly above the management nodes (rack units 14-17), and compute node 6 is installed in the reserved 2U space.
Figure Legend
| Callout | Quantity | Description |
|---|---|---|
|
A |
1 |
reserved space for 6th compute node |
|
B |
1 - 4 |
flex bay can accommodate 1-2 compute nodes, or 1-2 storage enclosures |
|
C |
2 |
spine switch |
|
D |
1 |
Oracle Storage Drive Enclosure DE3-24C disk shelf |
|
E |
1 |
management switch |
|
F |
2 |
leaf switch |
|
G |
3 |
compute nodes 3 required for minimum configuration |
|
H |
3 |
management nodes |
|
I |
2 |
storage controllers |
X9 Rack Configuration
The Private Cloud Appliance hardware platform in X9 configuration, is factory-installed with appliance software release 3.0.1 or 3.0.2. Its hardware components are identified in the figure below. This figure shows a fully populated rack, however you can customize your rack configuration to include different storage or compute capacity as needed.
The flex bays are dedicated 4 rack unit sections within the rack that can be used for flexible expansion. For each flex bay, you can choose to add 1-4 compute nodes, 1 Oracle Storage Drive Enclosure DE3-24C, or 1-2 Oracle Storage Drive Enclosure DE3-24P. A flex bay can house either storage or compute resources, but not both in the same bay.
Figure Legend
| Callout | Quantity | Description |
|---|---|---|
|
A |
1 - 4 |
flex bay can accommodate 1-4 compute nodes, or 1-2 storage enclosures |
|
B |
2 |
spine switch |
|
C |
1 |
Oracle Storage Drive Enclosure DE3-24C disk shelf |
|
D |
1 |
management switch |
|
E |
2 |
leaf switch |
|
F |
1 - 5 |
can accommodate 1 - 5 compute nodes |
|
G |
3 |
compute nodes 3 required for minimum configuration |
|
H |
3 |
management nodes |
|
I |
2 |
storage controllers |