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Published inOct 2021
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Prasenjit Sarkar
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Prasenjit Sarkar

Prasenjit Sarkar is a product manager at Oracle for their public cloud, with a focus on cloud strategy, Oracle Ravello, cloud-native applications, and the API platform. His primary focus is driving Oracle's cloud computing business with commercial and public sector customers, helping to shape and deliver a strategy to build broad use of Oracle's Infrastructure as a Service offerings, such as Compute, Storage, and Database as a Service. He is also responsible for developing public/private cloud integration strategies, customers' cloud computing architecture visions, future state architectures, and implementable architecture roadmaps in the context of the public, private, and hybrid cloud computing solutions that Oracle can offer. He has also authored six industry-leading books on virtualization, SDN, and physical compute, among others. He has six successful patents and six more patents pending at the US PTO. He has also authored numerous research articles.
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VCN components

While consuming Oracle Cloud in any form, the first thing that you need to set up is your virtual network through a VCN. This section details the various different components of the VCN.

Subnets

Instances placed onto each subnet automatically receive their network configuration from the subnet itself. However, you also have the option of manually specifying your own private IP address from the address scope of the subnet.

You can specify a subnet as either a private subnet or a public subnet:

  • Private subnet – All the instances in this subnet get private IP addresses assigned to their attached VNICs.
  • Public subnet – Instances placed in the public subnet not only get a public IP address assigned for external communication, but they also get a private IP address assigned to their VNICs.

VNIC

A VNIC, or virtual network interface card, is attached to an instance, and allows the instance to connect to a subnet within a VCN. This...

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Prasenjit Sarkar

Prasenjit Sarkar is a product manager at Oracle for their public cloud, with a focus on cloud strategy, Oracle Ravello, cloud-native applications, and the API platform. His primary focus is driving Oracle's cloud computing business with commercial and public sector customers, helping to shape and deliver a strategy to build broad use of Oracle's Infrastructure as a Service offerings, such as Compute, Storage, and Database as a Service. He is also responsible for developing public/private cloud integration strategies, customers' cloud computing architecture visions, future state architectures, and implementable architecture roadmaps in the context of the public, private, and hybrid cloud computing solutions that Oracle can offer. He has also authored six industry-leading books on virtualization, SDN, and physical compute, among others. He has six successful patents and six more patents pending at the US PTO. He has also authored numerous research articles.
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