Thousands of customers rely on VMware and Oracle for their enterprise applications, frequently navigating challenging hybrid and multicloud environments. Since early 2019, our collaboration has been founded on delivering a streamlined operational experience through Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. Today, we’re delighted to share the latest enhancements to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution and announce an extended partnership with VMware as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) joins the VMware Cloud Universal program.

Commercial flexibility with VMware Cloud Universal

Embracing choice, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution will be available for purchase through the VMware Cloud Universal program with other VMware Cross-Cloud services. You can subscribe and provision Oracle Cloud VMware Solution as part of VMware Cloud Universal, a flexible purchasing and consumption program that helps businesses simplify procurement and accelerate adoption of Oracle Cloud VMware Solution through the VMware Cloud Console.

VMware Cloud Universal offers customers a flexible way to apply the value of their VMware perpetual licenses as they migrate on-premises workloads to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution on OCI. With the VMware Cloud Acceleration Benefit (CAB) you can apply the value of your existing VMware SDDC perpetual licenses toward Oracle Cloud VMware Solution subscriptions and implement a simplified mechanism for managing your cloud-related expenses with greater agility and scale.

In the coming months, VMware and Oracle plan to integrate Oracle Cloud VMware Solution as a native service in the VMware Cloud Console with other VMware Cross-Cloud services for a simplified purchase and provisioning experience.

The summer 2023 release

In our spring release, we introduced Oracle Cloud VMware Solution standard shapes with independent scaling of compute and storage to more effectively align cost-performance considerations and optimize the sizing of your VMware workloads. These new standard shapes were well-received with many existing and new customers finding value in scaling compute and storage independently.

The new release has the following features:

  • Support for vSphere 8: VMware vSphere 8 has introduced many new improvements to help you increase performance and speed administration tasks. Oracle Cloud VMware Solution initial support begins with new deployments of vSphere 8, utilizing all supported Compute shapes with the vSAN Original Storage Architecture (OSA).

  • Expanded block storage support: Addressing the demand for Oracle Cloud VMware Solution new standard shapes, we extended the original block storage support from eight hosts per software-defined data center (SDDC) to 32-host attachments to a shared volume.

  • Multicluster and mixed shapes: Enhancing the flexibility of Compute shapes, this capability allows you to create multiple clusters within the same SDDC and use mixed shapes, including Intel-based clusters (Standard2 (X7), Standard3 (X9), BM.GPU.A10.4 (GPU) and AMD-based clusters (BM.DenseIO.E4, BM.Standard.E4). This feature allows you to separate workloads in different clusters for licensing, compliance, or to separate different departments. Furthermore, you can deploy GPU clusters for specialized workloads, while having lower cores for the management cluster.

  • New Australia government and defense cloud: Australian federal, state, and local government customers can now benefit from OCI’s high performance, security, powerful data analytics, and distributed cloud capabilities, all while adhering to specific compliance and tenancy requirements. Oracle Cloud VMware Solution is available in 45 commercial and government regions globally.

  • Top secret/sensitive compartmented information (TS/SCI) missions: Oracle Cloud VMware Solution has received authorization from the US Intelligence Community to host and manage TS/SCI missions.

The release has the following new and updated VMware Cross-Cloud Service validations:

  • VMware Aria operations: Simplifies the operations of the cloud account for Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, automatically discover new SDDCs, and monitoring. One account allows you to manage multiple Oracle Cloud VMware Solution SDDCs, including vCenter, vSAN and NSX.

  • NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi) Enterprise Edition: Provides enterprise grade application delivery services with local load balancing, global server load balancing (GSLB) and web application firewall (WAF) for workloads running on Oracle Cloud VMware Solution.

  • Telco cloud platform to public cloud (TCP-PC) integration: Flexible design for cloud service providers (CSPs) to implement their end-to-end networks with rich ecosystem of VMware verified network functions, enabling them to deploy services in Oracle’s public cloud with over 45 global regions or with Dedicated Region to create a dedicated cloud on-premises.

  • Cloud Director service for enterprise IT and partners: Enables multitenancy or private SDDC services with each internal tenant having their own organization virtual data center (OVDC) on Oracle Cloud VMware Solution to make more efficient use of cloud compute, memory, networks, and storage. Each tenant has access to provide self-service capabilities, which allow you to manage the resources within the organization into multiple departments. A managed service provider (MSP) can also directly manage the Cloud Director service on behalf of an enterprise customer for multitenancy.

  • Tanzu Application Service 5.0 support: Simplifies the developer experience and improve platform engineering.

Conclusion

With the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution Summer release, we aim to simplify your cloud experience, tailored to your unique needs. Stay tuned for more exciting updates and stop by our booth at VMware Explore and Oracle CloudWorld to speak with one of our solution architects to learn more about how Oracle Cloud VMware Solution can redefine your cloud strategy. For a full list of Oracle Cloud VMware Solution VMware Explore sessions, check out this blog from Audrey Bain at VMware.

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