Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution features

• Full control of dedicated environments

  • Complete control over the cloud stack

    Oracle Cloud VMware Solution provides customers with self-service provisioning and full administrative permissions—including root access. This provides complete control over the entire hardware and software environment.

  • Isolated and dedicated

    Oracle Cloud VMware Solution is a single-tenant solution—perfect for customers whose workloads demand isolated infrastructure. This avoids the resource contention found in competitive, multitenant environments.

  • Security-first architecture

    Reduce risks with Oracle Cloud's security-first architecture that uses built-in tenant isolation, zero trust access, and data encryption at rest. With no managed service security implications to consider, access is private and entirely under the customer’s control.

• VMware tool compatibility

  • Familiar application management

    VMware-based applications running on-premises can be managed using the same single, integrated view as on OCI.

    No retraining required

    Customers can leverage their IT team’s existing skill sets and the tools they already use on-premises—including vSphere, vCenter Server, vSAN, NSX, and HCX.

  • Seamless cloud migration

    Extend tested and proven on-premises IT deployment architectures and processes. Configure cloud environments to match on-premises to keep them in sync.

  • Leverage VMware best practices

    Rely on VMware best practices with native tool integration and minimize disruption during cloud migration.

• Seamless VMware workload deployment

  • Migrate VMware estates

    Oracle Cloud VMware Solution allows customers to move VMware workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) without modification. Customers gain scale and agility while maintaining continuity with existing VMware-based tools, processes, and policies.

    Innovate on your timeline

    Migrate applications without making changes, then leverage OCI’s services, such as Oracle Autonomous Database or chatbots, to modernize applications.

  • Run production applications in the cloud

    Oracle Cloud VMware Solution is built for enterprise applications supported on VMware and running on enterprise-class server processors, including applications from Oracle and other enterprise platforms.

    Disaster recovery where needed

    Oracle Cloud VMware Solution is deployable into all commercial (nongovernmental) Oracle Cloud Regions. Replicate or back up to any region.

  • VMware Cloud Verified

    Oracle Cloud VMware Solution is VMware Cloud Verified. Customers can run VMware Cloud Foundation on Oracle’s next-generation cloud and retain full VMware administrative access and compatibility using VMware vCenter.

• Little to no application modification

  • Migrate applications without rearchitecting

    Rely on a single VMware specification that works both on-premises and in the cloud. Avoid effort spent porting applications, refactoring code, or resolving configuration differences.

  • Rely on native VMware tools

    Use native and familiar VMware tools to manage infrastructure and migration needs to minimize organizational impact.

  • Leverage existing skill sets

    Oracle Cloud VMware Solution is designed to work with your existing VMware skill set and tooling.

• Flexible compute shapes

  • Powerful compute bare metal instances

    For current customers, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution offers flexible compute instances that are available as X7 dense 52-core Intel Xeon and E4 dense third-generation AMD EPYC processors. Customize these shapes with 32-, 64-, and 128-core configurations with 2.7X to 3.5X more storage per host than other offerings.

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  • New Intel Xeon standard compute instances

    Oracle Cloud VMware Solution now offers Intel flexible compute options, including BM.Standard2.x and BM.Standard3.x. These processors can run from 2.0 GHz to 3.4 GHz and have up to 1 TB of RAM. They can scale up to 8 hosts per cluster, can scale vertically or horizontally, and are available in up to 64-core configurations.

    Read the announcement

  • New AMD EPYC standard compute instances

    Similar to the Intel Xeon processors, the new AMD EPYC BM.Standard.E4.x can run between 2.55 GHz and 3.5 GHz (turbo). The AMD EPYC processor has up to 2 TB RAM, can scale up to 8 hosts per cluster, and is available in 32-, 64-, 96-, and 128-core configurations.

• Scalable storage options

  • Block storage

    Customers now have access to block storage. They can deploy the exact amount of storage at the performance level their workloads require without the need to overprovision. At any time, block volume size and performance can be changed—you reconfigure them without disruption to the VMware clusters and their workloads.

    Learn more about block storage

  • Shielded instances

    Secure Boot and the Trusted Platform Module provide built-in security against ransomware attacks. This ensures only valid and authenticated software is enabled and hardens the firmware security of ESXi instances.

    Learn more about shielded instances

  • File storage

    VMware Certified NFSv3 Cloud Datastore is designed for disaster recovery and backup use cases and offers an elastic and secure enterprise-grade secondary storage solution for VMware workloads to native Oracle storage.

    Learn more about file storage

  • Monitoring and notifications

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Monitoring and Notifications enable users to create user-defined alarms, define severity, and push notifications to SMS, PagerDuty, or Slack.

    Learn more about OCI Monitoring and Notifications

• High performance, elastic, and VMware Cloud verified

  • Powerful bare metal hardware

    Oracle Cloud VMware Solution’s bare metal compute instances provide customers with 156 cores—the highest CPU core count available for any VMware-based solution in the market today.

  • Elastic capacity

    Scale large VMware deployments from three nodes to the current VMware limit of 64 hosts to accommodate growth.

  • Designed, built, and supported by Oracle

    VMware Cloud Verified and compatible with the VMware ecosystem.

  • High-speed virtual cloud networks

    Oracle virtual cloud networks (VCNs) provide customizable and private networks, just like traditional data center networks. Easily access adjacent Oracle Cloud Infrastructure cloud services from the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution environment.

  • The highest level of scalability in the market

    Customers can scale their workloads up to a maximum cluster size of 64 nodes and 64 PB of storage—the largest footprint in the market. The customer remains in complete control of these clusters, with the same visibility, tool support, and access as with on-premises clusters.

  • Smaller minimum node size

    New configuration options reduce the minimum deployment size by about two-thirds, from 96 cores per node to 36 cores per node. As a result, customers can migrate smaller VMware clusters to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution for various use cases.

• VMware solution integration

  • Disaster recovery with Site Recovery Manager

    Disaster recovery with policy-based management ensures fast and highly predictable recovery times. Site Recovery Manager automates orchestration and integrates natively with VMware vSphere Replication.

    Learn more about Site Recovery Manager

    vRealize Operations

    Plan, optimize, and scale Oracle Cloud VMware Solution with unified visibility across the hybrid cloud.

    Learn more about vRealize Operations

  • Horizon virtual desktop support

    With cloud-based Windows virtual desktops and applications delivered in a hybrid environment, you can easily extend desktop services in the cloud to reduce capital expenditure.

    Learn more about VMware Horizon

    vRealize Automation

    Deliver infrastructure as a service with VMware vRealize Automation and Oracle Cloud VMware Solution.

    Learn more about vRealize Automation

  • VMware Tanzu

    Leverage Kubernetes and microservices-based apps in a VMware software-defined data center environment on OCI. Deliver better software to production faster.

    Learn more about VMware Tanzu

    vRealize Network and Log Insight

    Build an optimized, highly available, and secure network across your virtual cloud network.

    Learn more about vRealize Network Insight

• Integration of Oracle Cloud services

  • Containers and microservices

    Customers can modernize all or parts of their application stacks with native access to Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes and Oracle Functions.

    Cloud database management

    Increase service levels and reduce overhead with a broad array of cloud databases such as Oracle Exadata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing, Oracle NoSQL Database, and more.

  • Business analytics and data science

    Easily provide robust business analytics and data science capabilities while leveraging the latest bare metal or virtual machine (VM) GPUs.

    Flexible and powerful compute

    Tackle general applications with new E3 flexible shapes, which allow customers to specify the exact number of cores they want, from 1 to 64 OCPUs. Handle the highest-performance workloads with the most-powerful Intel-, AMD-, and NVIDIA-based bare metal machines available.

  • Networking and connectivity

    Fast, reliable, and secure networking for performance-sensitive applications such as online transaction processing (OLTP), high performance computing (HPC), and real-time streaming. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect enables low-cost, private connectivity to on-premises servers, OCI regions, and other cloud providers.

    Block, object, file, and NVMe storage

    Storage solutions include cloud-based block, object, file, archive, and local NVMe storage. Migrate with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Transfer Appliance.