REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Aug. 6,
2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Building on the recent launch of
Oracle Cloud@Customer, Oracle continues an aggressive push to
deliver flexibility and scale that meets customers where they are
in their cloud transformation. Today Oracle announced availability
of Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, a dedicated, cloud-native
VMware-based environment that enables enterprises to easily move
their production VMware workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution provides customers with the identical
experience in the cloud as in on-premises data centers, and
seamlessly integrates with Oracle's second-generation cloud
infrastructure. Oracle Cloud VMware Solution is available now in
all public regions and in customer Dedicated Region cloud
instances.
Unique to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, customers have complete
access and control of their VMware environment, with no limits, to
run production enterprise applications in the cloud without
compromise. In addition to integration with Oracle Autonomous
Database and other Oracle Cloud services, the solution uniquely
provides customers with control over versions of vSphere used,
security tools, and automation services. Customers can also migrate
existing Oracle apps and databases running on vSphere on premises
to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution to take advantage of cloud scale
and economics. Now, customers can provision and deploy the core
feature set and capabilities of VMware Cloud Foundation on Oracle
Cloud Infrastructure while using the same industry standard VMware
tools to upgrade, patch, and tune their environment, enabling
production use for critical workloads.
"Entel migrated over 60 production applications to Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure, including our mission-critical customer engagement,
business intelligence, and risk management systems," said
Helder Branco, chief technology
officer, Entel. "We have a strong technical team, including many
VMware experts, so a managed VMware service is not helpful. We need
administrative access to the VMware software so we can maintain
control of every aspect of the environment. Oracle Cloud VMware
Solution offers my team the exact same experience they had in the
data center but with cloud elasticity and access to Oracle Cloud
services, providing a fast, easy, and cost-effective path to
migrate our VMware-based applications to the cloud. As a
result, performance has increased dramatically, downtime is close
to zero and we have seen a 50 percent decrease in the number of
customer support tickets."
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution is VMware Cloud Verified, giving
customers confidence they are using the complete set of VMware
capabilities, with consistency, performance and interoperability
for their VMware workloads. The service is based on VMware Cloud
Foundation to deliver VMware vSphere, NSX, vSAN, and integrated
management, and a three-node compute cluster that can scale out to
64 nodes per cluster and multiple clusters in the same environment.
With full access to the underlying host and VMware environment,
customers can use key services not available on other public
clouds, such as VMware Host Client for ESXi management. In addition
to complete control over their VMware service, customers get access
to more than 50 Oracle Cloud services that span compute, networking
and storage to Containers, Kubernetes, and Digital Assistants that
support application modernization and development.
"We are excited to offer our shared customers access to an
Oracle-built, VMware-validated cloud solution that replicates the
on-premises experience that people know and love, but is now
available in a global hyperscale public cloud," said Clay Magouyrk, executive vice president of
engineering, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. "Now, customers can
easily migrate industry-standard VMware vSphere workloads to Oracle
Cloud Infrastructure and benefit from its performance and security,
while relying on Oracle for full support and services."
"Building new digital services. Scaling business-critical apps.
Enabling a remote workforce. Applications sit at the core of
addressing these challenges, and hybrid cloud opens the door to
cost-effective enterprise application scalability, flexibility, and
modernization," said Mark Lohmeyer,
senior vice president and general manager, Cloud Services Business
Unit, VMware. "Through consistent VMware infrastructure and
operations, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution enables our mutual
customers to migrate and modernize enterprise applications, and
seamlessly move workloads between on-premises environments and
Oracle Cloud, all with access to Oracle's full portfolio of cloud
services."
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution Highlights:
- Ease of migration – Move VMware-based applications to
Oracle Cloud without having to modify them; avoid effort spent
porting applications, refactoring code or resolving configuration
differences
- Delivered in your tenancy – Customers control access and
management services completely
- Unified commercial terms – One contract for all services
and can be used to meet existing universal commercial
commitments
- Unified support – Oracle provides one stop support for
the entire tenancy, including VMware service support
- No retraining required – Leverage existing software,
skillsets and tools organizations are already using on-premises,
including vSphere, vCenter, vSAN, and NSX
- Extend VMware environments to the cloud – Configure a
cloud environment to match on-premises and keep them in-sync;
Oracle supports vSphere versions 6.5 and 6.7
- Use VMware validated solutions – Instant support for
thousands of VMware-Ready applications, including popular
third-party management tools
- Disaster recovery where needed – Replicate or back-up
into any commercial or government Oracle Cloud Region across the
globe
- Total control – Full administrative control over the
VMware environment in the customer tenancy, such as version control
of vSphere, access to host operating systems and all other
on-premises administrative rights
- Powerful hardware – Compute instances provide customers
with 156 cores in three nodes to start, scaling to 64 nodes per
cluster across multiple clusters, delivering the enterprise scale
needed for VMware solutions in the cloud
The Oracle Cloud VMware Solution is sold by Oracle and its
partners. Oracle customers consume the new solution using their
existing Universal Credits resulting in a single unified bill.
Customers can use VMware vCenter to manage both their on-premises
clusters and Oracle Cloud-based SDDCs through a single pane of
glass. Customers deploy this new solution in the same global cloud
regions and within the same virtual cloud networks used to deploy
any Oracle Cloud service. Oracle Cloud VMware Solution accommodates
multiple versions of VMware in the same Oracle Cloud tenancy,
supporting real application lifecycle management.
What Customers and Partners are Saying about Oracle Cloud
VMware Solution
"The addition of VMware to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's
constantly growing arsenal of industry standard solutions is
another exciting step forward," said Chris
Pasternak, Accenture Global Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Lead. "Now our clients have yet another option to help quickly move
Oracle workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure through the
simplicity of tools like vMotion. What's more, because this is a
customer-managed service, we can move forward with patching,
upgrading, and maintenance of the VMware estate on our clients'
terms. That's huge."
"Actifio shares thousands of mutual customers with both VMware
and Oracle. Actifio's Multi-Cloud Copy Data Management for Oracle
Cloud VMware Solution provides a seamless way to bring resiliency,
mobility, migration and agility to all Oracle and VMware
workloads in addition to our support for Oracle Exadata Cloud
and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure," said Ranajit Nevatia, senior vice president and
general manager, Actifio GO, at Actifio "Enterprises can continue
to benefit from Actifio's "data reuse" capabilities to provision
rapid database clones as test data for DevOps, data warehouse, and
business analytics. We are excited about our integration and
partnership with Oracle Cloud and VMware."
"We are happy to join forces with Oracle and VMware and provide
the critical data backup and recovery support for customers
utilizing their Oracle Cloud VMware Solution," said Rahul Pawar, vice president, product management,
Commvault. "The key benefits of this solution – ease, scalability,
security, and cost – perfectly align with the leading features of
our products, making this a winning combination for customers."
"Deloitte works with a number of global enterprise clients that
use VMware to achieve greater IT flexibility, many of which also
use Oracle to power their mission critical applications," said
Jeffrey Davis, chief commercial
officer, Oracle Business, Deloitte Consulting LLP. "The Oracle
VMware Solution can offer our clients a path to cloud that
incorporates the flexibility to build and manage a full featured
VMware offering that runs on Oracle's second-generation cloud
infrastructure. As Oracle's leading cloud infrastructure alliance,
Deloitte looks forward to helping clients accelerate the pace of
digital transformation with this new solution."
"RackWare is a long-time VMware and Oracle partner, and we are
excited to support the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution in the Oracle
Cloud Infrastructure environment," said Todd Matters, chief technology officer,
RackWare. "RackWare's Management Module (RMM) platform offers a
complete migration and disaster recovery solution along with the
ability to automate DR testing. With RMM, origin machine instances
can be cloned, replicated, and placed in a wide variety of physical
and cloud environments. We have a long history of supporting VMware
customers with their DR and migration needs, and with the Oracle
Cloud VMware Solution launch we are excited to bring the same
benefits to the ever-growing Oracle customer base."
"As a leader in both VMware backup and recovery and Cloud Data
Management, it's imperative that we support our customers in their
hybrid and multi-cloud journeys," said Dan
Kogan, vice president product and solutions marketing at
Veeam. "We're excited to enable our mutual customers to extend or
migrate their VMware workloads on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure by
partnering with Oracle to now add support for Oracle Cloud VMware
Solution. Customers can now leverage a single solution for data
protection, recovery, monitoring, and ransomware protection for any
app and any data in any cloud."
"In March, we launched Zerto 8.0 with the mission to deliver IT
resilience everywhere. Part of that strategy is to deepen
integrations with market-leading public cloud providers and we're
excited to add Oracle Cloud VMware Solution to that list," said Gil
Levonai, CMO and senior vice president of product, Zerto. "Oracle
Cloud VMware Solution is offering increased control, flexibility,
and cloud integration that the industry is looking for and Zerto is
excited to be a part of that offering. This enables our customers
to access all of the industry-leading benefits of Zerto's IT
Resilience Platform—continuous data protection, best-in-class RPOs
and RTOs for recoverability, data migration, and more—also on
Oracle Cloud."
Additional Resources
- Learn more about Oracle Cloud VMware Solution
- Read the technical blog about Oracle Cloud VMware Solution
- Learn more about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
About Oracle
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of integrated applications for Sales, Service, Marketing, Human
Resources, Finance, Supply Chain and Manufacturing, plus Highly
Automated and Secure Generation 2 Infrastructure featuring the
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