Oracle Cloud Infrastructure(OCI) - Part1

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure(OCI)
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OCI is part of IaaS Service model , where OCI is re-branding of Bare Metal Cloud Service (BMCS). We all know that Oracle has recently started the  second generation of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), called the Oracle Bare Metal Cloud  or Bare-metal Cloud services, which Oracle said are very high performance servers provided to Customer at low cost. 

     At a very high level, the Oracle Bare Metal cloud is a collection of cloud services designed to allow the user to build an environment capable of handling apps, services, databases, and more in a highly-available cloud ecosystem. 
      
    Their architecture revolves around a high-performance compute environment which gives users the ability to provision storage, compute (physical hardware as needed), and integrate flexible virtual networks into the cloud platform. 
    
    Bare metal servers are non-virtualized physical compute nodes. This means there is no hypervisor running to create virtual machines. This gives tenants access to the physical machine and can be very helpful for high performance (and high I/O and memory) applications, such as database, or Hadoop, for example.

As per Oracle:


  • Use the Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Compute Service to provision and manage bare metal compute instances. You can launch an Oracle bare metal compute resource in minutes. Provision instances as needed to deploy and run your applications, just as you would in your on-premise data center.
  • Use the Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Networking Service to create and manage the network components for your cloud resources. You can configure your virtual cloud network (VCN) with access rules and gateways to support routing of public and private internet traffic.
  • The Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Block Volume Service provides high-performance network storage capacity that supports a broad range of I/O intensive workloads. You can use block volumes to expand the storage capacity of your compute instances, to provide durable and persistent data storage that can be migrated across compute instances, and to host large databases.
  • The Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Object Storage Service provides high throughput storage for unstructured data. Object storage enables near infinite storage capacity for large amounts of analytic data, or rich content like images and videos. Block volumes can be backed up to the highly durable Object Storage Service for added durability.
  • You can control access to Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services using the Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Identity and Access Management Service to create and manage compartments, users, groups, and the policies that define permissions on resources.


In addition, Oracle stated at its announcement that the platform will be more than 11 times faster and 20 percent cheaper than the fastest solution offered by the competition. With compute priced by the hour and storage and networking by the month, Oracle makes it easy to understand the costs.

Below are the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure(OCI) offerings/products:

Compute

Fast and Scalable Compute Resources: From single-core VMs up to 52-core bare metal compute instances in large-scale clusters, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure scales for all your traditional and cloud-native applications.


Networking


Enterprise-Grade Private Virtual Cloud Networks: Designed from the ground up to deliver flexibility, security, availability, and superior bandwidth, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure lets you control all details of your network as if you have your own on-premises datacenter.


Storage


Storage Options For All Your Mission-Critical Data: From locally attached NVMe SSDs, to file, block, object, and archive storage, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has cost-effective options for every storage use case, and is backed by the industry's only storage performance SLA.


Database


Database On Demand - On VMs, Bare Metal, or Oracle Exadata: Deploy Oracle databases quickly and easily in a highly-available cloud environment, and benefit from the performance of dedicated hardware, proven RAC reliability, data security, and granular controls.


Containers


Container Infrastructure For Deploying Elastic, Resilient Systems: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure delivers a complete and integrated set of services, based on opensource technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, for orchestration, scheduling, management, operations, and analytics.


FastConnect


Private Connection From Your Network To Your Cloud: FastConnect provides an easy, elastic, and economical way to create a dedicated and private connection with higher bandwidth options, and a more reliable and consistent networking experience when compared to internet-based connections.


Edge Services


Optimize The User Experience For Your Cloud Services: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure DNS and Email Delivery, based on Dyn's leading technology, enables users to optimize performance and communication at the edge of their Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.


Governance


Enable Cloud Resource Control And Security At Scale: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers Audit for visibility across all public API activities, enterprise scale Identity and Access Management and for fine-grained control over all access and Tagging to organize, manage, and control your cloud resources.


Security


Secure Access, Control Cloud Resources and Maintain Visibility At Scale: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers Audit for visibility across all public API activities, enterprise scale Identity and Access Management and for fine-grained control over all access and Tagging to organize, manage, and control your cloud resources.


Tactical Edge Cloud


Enterprise grade security, infrastructure and software to any edge location: Oracle Tactical Edge Cloud subscription-based offering brings mission-critical performance to the edge with a broad mix of compute cores, storage and software all running in a ruggedized enclosure.


Load Balancing



Your Cloud Applications - Highly-Available, Scalable and Secure: Increase application availability and performance with highly-available and provisioned bandwidth load balancing.


OCI Offering:


  • OCI has a Bare Metal offering or Virtual Machine(VM), you can also bring your own hypervisor (BYOH) for Bare Metal
  • OCI Compute comes in various shapes like Standard I/O, High I/O, Dense I/O, and GPU (for High-Performance HP & Machine Learning ML)
Below are the VM and BMC server configuration details:

Virtual Machine Standard


1 - 24 full processor cores on Intel Xeon or AMD EPYC processors
15 - 320 GB RAM
Up to 1 PB Block Storage
Up to 24.6 Gbps Network Bandwidth


Virtual Machine DenseIO


8 - 24 full processor cores on Intel Xeon processors
120 - 320 GB RAM
6.4 - 25.6 TB of local NVMe SSD
Up to 1 PB Block Storage
Up to 24.6 Gbps Network Bandwidth


Virtual Machine GPU


6 - 24 Cores, 90 - 360 GB RAM
1 - 4 Tesla GPUs (Pascal or Volta)
Up to 1 PB Block Storage
Up to 25 Gbps Network Interfaces


Bare Metal Standard


52 or 64 full processor cores on Intel Xeon or AMD EPYC processors
512-768 GB RAM
Up to 1 PB Block Storage
2x 25 Gbps Network Interfaces


Bare Metal DenseIO


52 Cores, 768 GB RAM
51.2 TB of local NVMe SSD
Up to 1 PB Block Storage
2x 25 Gbps Network Interfaces


Bare Metal GPU


28 - 52 Cores, 192 - 768 GB RAM
2 - 8 Tesla GPUs (Pascal or Volta)
Up to 1 PB Block Storage
2x 25 Gbps Network Interfaces

to be continued...

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