Configuring the Private Cloud Appliance System

When the Private Cloud Appliance rack hardware has been installed, and the system has been powered on, the initial setup and configuration procedure must be performed.

Ensure that the Initial System Installation Checklist has been completed in advance. It contains the information required to configure the system.

Before you connect to the Private Cloud Appliance for the first time, ensure that you have made the necessary preparations for external network connections. See Preparing the Data Center Network Environment.

Initial Setup

Follow these setup instructions:

• Connecting a Workstation to the System

• Completing the Initial Setup and Configuration

• Connecting a Bastion Host to Private Cloud Appliance (Optional)

Optional Expansions

This section also provides installation information for optional system expansions:

• Expanding Private Cloud Appliance with GPU Capacity

• Expanding Private Cloud Appliance Capacity with a Compute Expansion Rack

• Connecting External Systems to Private Cloud Appliance Using Flex Networks

What's Next?

When the initial setup and configuration of your Private Cloud Appliance is complete, you can begin to customize the appliance for use.

Note

Ensure that the compute nodes are provisioned before you hand off a newly created tenancy to the tenancy administrator. Unprovisioned compute nodes can cause VCN creation to fail. Ensure that platform images have been imported.

Task	Directions	Background Information
Configuring ASR	Registering Private Cloud Appliance for Oracle Auto Service Request.	Oracle Auto Service Request (ASR).
Creating a new administrator account	admin-accounts.htm.	Private Cloud Appliance Infrastructure Administration.
Provision compute nodes	Performing Administrative Operations on Compute Nodes.	Server Nodes Installed in Private Cloud Appliance".
Provide platform images	Providing OCI Images	Images
Create tenancies	Managing Private Cloud Appliance Tenancies	Enclaves and Interfaces
Install the OCI CLI in the Compute Enclave	Installing and Using the OCI CLI	Enclaves and Interfaces
Create an Internal-Only VNIC and Subnet	Managing VCNs and Subnets	Virtual Cloud Networks
Create a Network-Accessible VNIC and Subnet	Managing VCNs and Subnets Configuring VCN Gateways	Virtual Cloud Networks
Import a compute image	Managing Custom Images	Images
Launch a compute instance	Tutorial: Launching Your First Instance	Compute Instances
Connect to a compute instance	Tutorial Task 7: Connect to Your Instance	Compute Instances
Get the status of a submitted job	PCA-ADMIN> show Job id=<jobid>	Using the Service CLI