Oracle Cloud VMware Solution meets pricing requirements better than VMware Cloud on AWS
April 19, 2022 | 5 minute readSince its launch, you can find Oracle Cloud VMware Solution in more locations than any other offerings. As for predictability, it’s the same VMware that customers operate on-premises. Unlike other offerings, we don’t layer on more automation that devalues your investment in skills, tools, and experience. Most of all, you own the security policy and Oracle removes itself from your environments when Oracle Cloud VMware Solution is deployed. Access is private and entirely under the control of the customer.
But how does VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS) compare to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution in pricing?
Besides giving you the same predictability, security, and control as your on-premises VMware cluster, the new Oracle Cloud VMware Solution Spring ’22 release also provides a more cost-effective path to public cloud. Let’s explore how each new configuration of Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (32-, 64-, and 128-core) meets customer pricing requirements better than VMware Cloud on AWS, in three key scenarios.
Migrate large workloads at half the cost
More than 300,000 organizations have built and run more than 85 million workloads on VMware. Because many workloads (databases, applications, others) remain inside on-premises large clusters, the price per CPU core is an important metric when moving large workloads to the public cloud. When using the 128-core configuration, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution has the per-core pricing advantage of 2.1 times versus VMware Cloud on AWS, as shown in Table 1.
The list price for a three-node Oracle Cloud VMware Solution environment for a term of one year in Virginia, US, on April 15, 2022 is $35,924, based on three BM.DenseIO2.E4.128 instances at $0.1300 OCPU per hour for 24 hours for 30 days with 384 OCPUs. The price per core for Oracle Cloud VMware Solution is $93.60, based on $35,942 for 384 cores. The list price for a three-node VMware Cloud on AWS environment with the same parameters is $27,798, based on three i3en.metal instances at $12.8695 per hour. The price per core for VMware Cloud on AWS is $193.04, based on $27,798 for 144 cores. $193.04 ÷ $93.60 = 2.1
Consolidate virtual machines more cost effectively
In simple terms, consolidations let us use fewer servers. Customers save money by combining many smaller VMs into fewer larger VMs with large memory footprint. In this scenario, the price per GB of RAM is an important metric. When using the 32-core configuration, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution has the price per GB advantage of 5.3 times versus VMware Cloud on AWS, as shown in Table 2.
The list price for a three-node Oracle Cloud VMware Solution environment for a term of one year in Virginia, US, on April 15, 2022 is $14,038, based on three BM.DenseIO2.E4.32 instances at $0.2031 OCPU per hour for 24 hours for 30 days with 96 OCPUs (Source). The price per GB RAM for Oracle Cloud VMware Solution is $2.28, based on $14,038 for 6,144 GB of RAM. The list price for a three-node VMware Cloud on AWS environment for a term of one year in Virginia, US, on April 15, 2022 is $27,798, based on three i3en.metal instances at $12.8695 per hour. The price per GB RAM for VMware Cloud on AWS is $12.06, based on $27,798 for 2,304 GB of RAM. $12.06 ÷ $2.28 = 5.3
Building a more cost-effective disaster recovery solution
Customers tell us that they want to reduce reliance on secondary and underutilized data centers for disaster recovery. Public cloud storage means more virtual machines (VMs) can be replicated, assuming a proper cost structure. In this scenario, the price per TB storage is an important metric. When using the 64-core configuration, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution has a pricing advantage of 1.5 times versus VMware Cloud on AWS, as shown in Table 3.
The list price for a three-node Oracle Cloud VMware Solution environment for a term of one year in Virginia, US, on April 15, 2022 is $22,464, based on three BM.DenseIO2.E4.64 instances at $0.1625 OCPU per hour for 24 hours for 30 days with 192 OCPUs. The price per TB of storage for Oracle Cloud VMware Solution is $137.65 based on $22,464 for 163.2 TB of storage. The list price for a three-node VMware Cloud on AWS environment for a term of one year in Virginia, US, on April 15, 2022 is $27,798, based on three i3en.metal instances at $12.8695 per hour. The price per TB of storage for VMware Cloud on AWS is $202.31, based on $27,798 for 137.4 TB of storage. $202.31 ÷ $137.65 = 1.5x
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution: Customer success
AYA Bank is the second largest private bank in Myanmar with more than 3.2 million customers and 265 branches. After upgrading its core Finastra banking application, the bank’s on-premises environment ran out of capacity to host the VMware Training Environment for the app. AYA bank chose Oracle Cloud VMware Solution to act as a precise extension of the bank’s on-premises VMware environment.
“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,” said Minn Wint Oo, deputy managing director and chief technology officer. “Overall, we have seen a 55% lower annual total cost of ownership (TCO), paving the way for us to move more VMware workloads in the future.”
How AYA Bank improves efficiency and cuts TCO 55% with Oracle Cloud VMware Solution
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