The Private Cloud Appliance (PCA) is a converged infrastructure offering from Oracle that can be used to consolidate Oracle and Non-Oracle applications in a single "Cloud-in-a-Box". The same servers, storage, hypervisor and operating system – X6-2, ZFS storage appliance, Oracle VM, Oracle Linux are being used in the PCA as in the Oracle Public Cloud. The latest news is that the more powerful Oracle Server X6-2 Compute Node can now be used with the PCA. These Oracle server X6-2 compute nodes can be installed on the PCAs. Each such node can provide 44 x86 cores and 256GB of RAM (can be upgraded to 768GB). The X6-2 compute nodes can be installed along with any existing X3-2, X4-2 and X5-2 compute nodes in the Oracle PCA base racks. In all, you can get a total of 1100 cores and 19.2 TB of Memory with the X6-2 compute nodes and a fully populated PCA base rack. Release 2.2 of the PCA software is also available as part of the new release. As a result, enhanced security and flexibility with full tenant isolation at both the server and network levels can be achieved. There is also the flexibility to customize and assign servers and networks to different tenant groups based on business need. PCA software 2.2 also allows a complete disaster recovery architecture for Oracle applications via Oracle Enterprise Manager Site Guard, this supports Oracle’s Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA). Non-Oracle applications can also be included in the disaster recovery protected group. Therefore, Oracle and Non-Oracle applications can be easily included in a single disaster recovery plan. The PCA 2.2 software now also allows the creation of "Host Networks" that provide an IP address to the Host server. This means you can use Storage Connect plug-ins and can easily provision storage for the virtual machines on the compute nodes from the Oracle VM Manager in a single pane – previously you had to go to the storage controller to provision storage followed by similar operations on the compute node. So this is more convenient and easier now. You can read more on this release here .
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