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
  The storage space inside the Exadata storage servers is configured for use by Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) When you launch an Exadata Cloud Infrastructure instance.