Preparing for Exadata Cloud Infrastructure

Review OCI as well as the site, network and storage requirements to prepare and deploy Exadata Cloud Infrastructure in your data center.

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Requirements for Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
  Learn the basic concepts to get started using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Network Setup for Exadata Cloud Infrastructure Instances
  This topic describes the recommended configuration for the VCN and several related requirements for the Exadata Cloud Infrastructure instance.
• Creating Protection Policies
  Recovery Service uses protection policies to control database backup retention in Oracle Cloud.
• Storage Configuration Requirements for Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
  With the introduction of Exascale technology in Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure, you can configure the Exadata infrastructure to use ASM, Exascale, or a combination of both.
• Cross-Service Data Guard Between ExaDB-D and ExaDB-XS
  You can now create a cross-service Oracle Data Guard group across database services.