Oracle Cloud VMware Solution
Security, predictability, and control make Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) the ideal platform for VMware. Rapidly transpose VMware estates to the cloud without changes to best practices or tools. VMware environments operate in a securely isolated customer tenancy with predictable performance and costs. Customers manage cloud infrastructure and VMware consoles for complete administrative control.
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Superior economics yields thelowest price per coreand no cost for the first 10 TB network egress
Independently scale compute from12 to 128 coreswith our flexible infrastructure
Globally consistent pricing in 47 regionswith 12 Azure interconnect and 12 dual regions per country
Why customers choose Oracle Cloud VMware Solution
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Complete customer control
Retain full root access and administrative control of VMware environments. Control when to patch, upgrade, or update software.
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Migrate applications without modification
Migrate applications as is, without refactoring application code. Lift and shift applications in just days from on-premises to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution.
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Independent scaling of compute and storage
Scale block volume capacity, performance, and cost on demand, independently from compute, to optimize your workloads.
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Predictability across operations, performance, and costs
Leverage on-premises licenses for a familiar VMware experience while enjoying high performance and globally consistent costs in the cloud.
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution features
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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.
- Complete control over the cloud stack
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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 requiredCustomers 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.
- Familiar application management
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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 timelineMigrate 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 neededOracle 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.
- Migrate VMware estates
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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.
- Migrate applications without rearchitecting
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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Powerful compute bare metal instances
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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Block storage
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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.
- Powerful bare metal hardware
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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 OperationsPlan, optimize, and scale Oracle Cloud VMware Solution with unified visibility across the hybrid cloud.
- 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 AutomationDeliver infrastructure as a service with VMware vRealize Automation and Oracle Cloud VMware Solution.
- VMware Tanzu
Leverage Kubernetes and microservices-based apps in a VMware software-defined data center environment on OCI. Deliver better software to production faster.
vRealize Network and Log InsightBuild an optimized, highly available, and secure network across your virtual cloud network.
- Disaster recovery with Site Recovery Manager
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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 managementIncrease 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 computeTackle 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 storageStorage solutions include cloud-based block, object, file, archive, and local NVMe storage. Migrate with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Transfer Appliance.
- Containers and microservices
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution customer successes
“Using a multicloud strategy, we are the first carrier in Brazil to move 100% of our workloads to the cloud. It includes moving our customer billing system, our CRM, and VMware to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Oracle has been a fantastic partner in our technology evolution.”
Pietro Labriola
CEO, TIM Brasil
“We were able to rapidly migrate mission-critical applications from our data centers to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution with no changes to applications, databases, and middleware. Higher performance, stability, management, and access have resulted in IT productivity and business agility with lower costs than alternative solutions.”
Christofer Faccin
IT Manager, Rumo Malha Norte
“Oracle Cloud VMware Solution takes just a matter of hours to move workloads into the cloud as we need them while keeping the full security credentials intact. Overall, we have seen a 55% lower annual TCO, paving the way for us to move additional VMware workloads in the future.”
Minn Wint Oo
Deputy Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer, AYA Bank
“Oracle Cloud VMware Solution has allowed us to strengthen our business continuity and disaster recovery workflow while building more capacity and scaling on demand.”
Louis Mah
Director of Information Technology, Maxim’s Group
“We knew relying on our on-premises systems had a shelf-life, but we couldn’t risk lengthy downtime or rearchitecting our platforms to make the switch to cloud. Oracle Cloud VMware Solution has helped us remove these challenges and support our clients in delivering unmatched customer experience, while also scaling as our business expands.”
Steve Challans
CISO, Prophecy International
Why choose OCI for VMware workloads?
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution is your implementation of VMware running on top of OCI—secured, managed, and controlled by you. Full control means the migration of your VMware workloads can be done on your terms.
 Oracle Cloud VMware Solution |
 VMware services with other cloud vendors |
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Customer-controlled Bring entire on-premises implementation to public cloud Full transfer of skills, tools, and processes |
Vendor-controlled Different processes and experience than on-premises VMware |
Same visibility and access as on-premises SSH access to hypervisor Configure hosts, clusters, and management VMs Edit vSAN cluster settings Browse datastores; upload and delete files |
No or limited administrative access |
Customer controls upgrade policy (version, time, defer) Supports databases certified on previous versions of VMware Stay compliant with third-party add-ons |
Vendor decides VMware version Customer negotiates upgrade window |
All host types available in all regions Disaster recovery where needed Scale business-critical apps across the globe |
Not all host types available in all regions |
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution |
VMware services with other cloud vendors |
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Deployed inside customer’s virtual cloud network Full control over network security policy |
Deployed in separate virtual private cloud No end-to-end control over network security policy |
No Oracle access after provisioning |
Vendor retains security credentials |
User interactions and behavior not tracked nor recorded |
User interactions and behavior tracked and recorded via experience analytics tools |
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution |
VMware services with other cloud vendors |
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46 total regions |
Up to 17 total regions |
7 government regions |
Up to 1 government region |
FedRAMP High ATO |
Not certified for FedRAMP High ATO (Azure VMware Solution and Google Cloud VMware Engine) |
DISA IL5 |
Not certified for DISA IL5 |
12 cloud regions connected to Azure |
AWS and GCP not connected to Azure |
Available on Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer Shipping since August 2020 |
Not shipping VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts (Beta) |
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution pricing
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution
Commitment duration |
X7 Dense 52 BM.DenseIO2.52 52 OCPUs 768 GB RAM, 51.2 TB NVMe storage |
E4 Dense 32 BM.DenseIO.E4.32 32 OCPUs 2 TB RAM, 54.4 TB Storage |
E4 Dense 64 BM.DenseIO.E4.64 64 OCPUs 2 TB RAM, 54.4 TB Storage |
E4 Dense 128 BM.DenseIO.E4.128 128 OCPUs 2 TB RAM, 54.4 TB Storage |
X7 Standard 52
BM.Standard2
52 52 OCPUs 768 GB RAM Block Storage |
X9 Standard 64
BM.Standard3 64 OCPUs(1) 1 TB RAM Block Storage |
E4 Standard 128
BM.Standard.E4 128 OCPUs(2) 2 TB RAM Block Storage |
| On demand (hourly3) | $12.67/hour | $9.75/hour | $15.60/hour | $24.95/hour | $11.13/hour | $13.26/hour | $24.96/hour |
| 1 month | $10.56/hour | $8.12/hour | $13.00/hour | $20.80/hour | - | - | - |
| 1 year(4) | $8.45/hour | $6.50/hour | $10.40/hour | $16.64/hour | $8.08/hour | $9.54/hour | $16.64/hour |
| 3 years(4) | $6.86/hour | $5.28/hour | $8.45/hour | $13.52/hour | $5.90/hour | $6.90/hour | $13.52/hour |
*Notes:
1. X9 Standard 64 also available in 16, 32, 48 core options
2. E4 Standard 128 also available in 32, 48, 64, 128 core options
3. Hourly commitment requires a minimum of 8 hours
4. Cancelling service prior to the end of the commitment does not stop metering
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VMware reference architectures
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Solution Playbook
Learn how you can deploy Oracle Exadata Database Service to connect applications in your Oracle Cloud VMware Solution software-defined data center (SDDC).
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Solution Playbook
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Solution Playbook
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Solution Playbook
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Migrate to the cloud
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Deploy a hybrid environment
Move workloads between on-premises environments and OCI with Oracle Cloud VMware Solution.
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VMware Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) for disaster protection
Understand how to use Oracle Cloud VMware Solution for disaster recovery.
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Deploy VMware SDDC on OCI
See how to prepare and deploy your SDDC on OCI.
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Maximize virtual machine flexibility
Explore different deployment options for your VMs on OCI.
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Deploy a multitier application stack
Operate VMware workloads in the public cloud while maintaining full control.
Deploy a VMware application stack
Additional Resources
Learn more about Oracle Cloud VMware Solution.
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- Oracle Cloud VMware Solution documentation
- Oracle Cloud VMware Solution FAQs
- Oracle Cloud VMware Solution pricing
- Maximizing VMware Investments in the Cloud (analyst report)
- Painless Cloud Migration: Maximising Payback for Workloads (analyst report)
- Oracle Cloud VMware Solution Help Center articles
- Oracle Cloud VMware Solution resources in the Oracle Architecture Center
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
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