For many many years, organizations heavily invested in the VMware ecosystem, and migrating to the cloud can be a daunting task. Concerns about rearchitecting applications, retraining staff, and losing control over their infrastructure often lead to hesitation.
Luckily, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution offers a compelling solution, allowing you to seamlessly extend your existing VMware environment to the cloud without sacrificing familiarity or control.
Let’s deep dive into Oracle cloud VMware solution.
What is Oracle Cloud VMware Solution?
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution provides a customer-managed, native VMware cloud environment within your dedicated Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) tenancy. In another word, you can use Oracle Cloud VMware Solution to create and manage VMware-enabled software-defined data centers (SDDCs) in OCI. This means you get:
- Full control: Utilize familiar VMware tools like vSphere, vCenter, and NSX to manage your workloads.
- Seamless migration: Migrate existing VMware workloads to the cloud without modification, preserving your existing processes and policies.
- Scalability and agility: Leverage the on-demand scalability and elasticity of the cloud to adapt to changing business needs.
- Security and isolation: Benefit from a single-tenant environment that eliminates resource contention and provides enhanced security for your workloads.
Solution Highlights
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure VMware Solution gives you full access to the features of a VMware SDDC, along with the following benefits:
- High availability: All VMware components are distributed across different fault domains within the OCI region’s availability domains.
- Scalability: Using dense shapes, you can start with 3 ESXi hosts and scale up to 64 hosts in a single SDDC. If you use standard shapes, you can start with 3 ESXi hosts and scale up to 32 hosts in a single ESXi cluster within the SDDC.
- Define clusters: Define up to 6 vSphere clusters in an SDDC. Use clusters to segregate workloads and provide for future expansion.
- Lift and shift: Migration of on-premises VMware workloads to a VMware Solution SDDC is seamless.
- Full integration: Because the SDDC resides in a virtual cloud network (VCN), it can be configured to communicate with other OCI resources such as compute instances, DB systems Autonomous Databases, and so on.
- Manageability: The OCI Console provides workflows to help SDDC creation and networking configuration.
- Layer 2 networking: SDDCs are configured with VLANs, which support applications that need layer 2 networking to run in the public cloud.
Key benefits of using Oracle Cloud VMware Solution:
- Reduced migration complexity: Migrate your existing VMware infrastructure to the cloud quickly and efficiently, minimizing disruption to your operations.
- Cost optimization: Take advantage of Oracle’s competitive pricing and pay-as-you-go model to optimize your infrastructure costs.
- Improved performance: Leverage Oracle’s high-performance, bare-metal hardware to experience improved performance for your workloads.
- Enhanced disaster recovery: Utilize Oracle Cloud’s built-in disaster recovery capabilities to ensure business continuity and minimize downtime.
Use Cases for Oracle Cloud VMware Solution:
- Hybrid cloud deployments: Extend your on-premises VMware environment to the cloud, enabling a hybrid cloud strategy for greater flexibility and scalability.
- Disaster recovery and business continuity: Leverage the cloud for disaster recovery and create a geographically diverse backup for your critical workloads.
- Modernization and innovation: Utilize the cloud to modernize your applications and infrastructure while maintaining compatibility with your existing VMware tools and skills.
Getting Started with Oracle Cloud VMware Solution:
Oracle provides comprehensive documentation and resources to help you get started with their Cloud VMware Solution, including:
- Technical documentation: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/VMware/home.htm
- Deployment guides: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/VMware/home.htm
- Architecture diagrams: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/VMware/home.htm
Conclusion:
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution offers an option for organizations seeking a seamless and secure cloud migration path for their VMware workloads. By leveraging familiar tools, maintaining control, and benefiting from the scalability and agility of the cloud, you can unlock new opportunities for innovation and growth within your organization.
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