Audience

This documentation is intended for owners, administrators and operators of Oracle Private Cloud Appliance. It provides architectural and technical background information about the engineered system components and services, as well as instructions for installation, administration, monitoring and usage.

Oracle Private Cloud Appliance has two strictly separated operating areas, known as enclaves. The Compute Enclave offers a practically identical experience to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: It allows users to build, configure and manage cloud workloads using compute instances and their associated cloud resources. The Service Enclave is where privileged administrators configure and manage the appliance infrastructure that provides the foundation for the cloud environment. The target audiences of these enclaves are distinct groups of users and administrators. Each enclave also provides its own separate interfaces.

It is assumed that readers have experience with system administration, network and storage configuration, and are familiar with virtualization technologies. Depending on the types of workloads deployed on the system, it is advisable to have a general understanding of container orchestration, and UNIX and Microsoft Windows operating systems.