ACCELERATE YOUR CLOUD STRATEGY WITH ORACLE CLOUD VMware SOLUTION

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution makes lifting-and-shifting VMware workloads from on-premises to cloud easy because the cloud environment is exactly the same. There’s no refactoring of applications or reconfiguration of the environment necessary to get the workload into the cloud.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – on which Oracle VMware Cloud Solution is built –?has layer 2 networking support built-in throughout, which is what VMware requires to run natively. Once customers have deployed into Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, it literally is VMware running on a cluster of three powerful bare-metal servers that scale up to 64 – the maximum currently supported by VMware.

Oracle Cloud VMware Use-Cases

1 Data-Center Migration- VMware HCX establishes the pairing between the two VMware environments and allows customers to accomplish migrations, potentially without any service disruption.

2 Capacity Expansion- You might want to simply extend you existing VMware environments or migrate portions of their environment to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, while maintaining an on-premises presence.?You can configure hybrid software-defined data centers (SDDCs) using VMware HCX, establish a pairing between the source (on-premises) and destination (customer’s Oracle Cloud Infrastructure tenancy), and extend any needed networks, and deploy virtual appliances on both sides. Once set up, you can move workloads bidirectionally, on both sites, selecting the appropriate group of virtual machines to move between sites.

3 Disaster Recovery- Oracle Cloud VMware Solution enables you to proactively plan for active disaster recovery scenarios in case a failure occurs in a customer primary data center. You can define a disaster recovery plan and automate it using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). Is there’s a primary SDDC failure, the VMware workloads are immediately accessible from Oracle Cloud VMware Solution environment. You can build a new disaster recovery plan, replace an existing plan, or complement an existing plan using Oracle Cloud VMware Solution.

Oracle Cloud VMware Killer Advantages.

Oracle’s hardware advantage

The servers Oracle is using for its VMware Cloud Solution run not only extreme specifications (52 cores, 768GB RAM and 51TB of NVMe SSD storage), they also have special Oracle-designed silicon.

Cloud VMware Solution uses Isolated Network Virtualization, which is part of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, the first public cloud to offer this.

What this means is Oracle has taken network and IO virtualization out of the hypervisor and encapsulated it in proprietary silicon, allowing customers to provision bare metal servers yet participate in a fully software-defined layer 3 network topology.

Link into Oracle Cloud services at wire speed

Running your VMware machines on Oracle Cloud means they’ll be running on the same network fabric as Oracle’s other high-performance services like Autonomous Database.

Apart from the low-latency access to services, this also has major benefits for VMware migration from on-premises to Cloud.

For example, if customer had a mission critical workload, running their application on VMware and their database in a two or four node Real Application Cluster in their data center, they ordinarily wouldn’t be able to easily move that to VMware in the cloud. Put simply, managed VMware providers wouldn’t be able to accommodate the database.

However, with Oracle VMware Cloud Solution, it’s a lift-and-shift without any re-architecting required, because the database could run on Oracle Autonomous Database, Exadata Cloud Service or Data Management Cloud Service, with a low-latency link to the application running inside Oracle VMware Cloud Solution.

One-stop support, one bill

One of the frustrating aspects of using different providers for various aspects of your software and cloud infrastructure is dealing with various different support organizations.

It’s not a problem with Oracle Cloud VMWare Solution – Oracle itself provides tier 1 and 2 support for both VMWare and Oracle services provided within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Additionally, Oracle offers consolidated billing with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure –?the VMware Cloud Solution is simply a line item in the consolidated invoice, which makes procurement easier.

Cloud flexibility with on-prem proximity

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution has another trick up its sleeve – and that’s the fact that it can run in one of Oracle’s Cloud@Customer Dedicated Regions –?Oracle’s new ability to deploy its public cloud into a customer’s data center.

What this means is customers can have all the benefits of running their VMware machines in fully Oracle-managed infrastructure, with the same SLAs and flexible billing options, but have the machines physically located in their own data center.

This provides extremely low latency to the virtual machines for maximum application performance and may also avoid the virtual machine traffic having to go out onto more expensive WAN links.

However, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution also runs in all 20 of Oracle’s global regions, also giving companies with global footprint the ability to situate virtual machines close to their users for high performance and optimal data sovereignty compliance.

Additionally, deployment time for Oracle Cloud VMware Solution is super short –?it’s a “Day 0” from request service, with deployment in less than four hours. This is because it is already included in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (including Dedicated Regions in customer data centers) by default.

Customer retains full control

Most enterprise IT teams don’t want to have to upgrade software versions to someone else’s schedule – they want to be able to thoroughly test for compatibility with existing applications and configurations first.

With many managed VMware cloud environments, customers have to run the version of VMware chosen by the cloud provider.

However, with Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, customers retain complete root-level control of the environment, and Oracle has no access or ability to make changes at all after the provisioning is done.

This means that customers who are running a particular version of VMware ESXi on premises can match that to the version running in Oracle Cloud –?there are no forced upgrades. Customers can control what version of vSphere they deploy and can even have multiple versions of VMware within their environment.Additionally, it’s a zero trust environment, which assures customers that Oracle removes itself from their environments once the solution is deployed in their tenancy.