Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS)

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Oracle Cloud VMware Solution allows customers to move VMware workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) without modifications.

2022: OCVS Spring 2022

On May 4, 2022, it became known that at the end of April 2022, VMware and Oracle released an update to the public cloud platform Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS). The spring release includes many features, the main of which was the closer integration of native Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services and virtual cloud infrastructure management tools from VMware.

OCVS Spring 2022

As reported, in OCVS Spring 2022 appeared:

• The host type of the OCVS ESXi based on the AMD EPYC E4 Dense. It is designed for heavy loads that require memory and storage usage. Now there are 3 options for E4 Dense ESXi hosts with a number of cores of 32, 64 or 128, with a clock frequency of 2.55 GHz in the base version and up to 3.5 GHz in maximum acceleration mode. All configurations come with 2 TB RAM on board, 100 Gbps network and 54.4 TB storage based on NVMe.

• VMware Protected Instances. Now there are so-called "Shielded VMware Instances," which are reliably protected from Ransomware attacks. These instances use a combination of Secure Boot and Trusted Platform Module (TPM) technologies to ensure that the OS and its applications are booted from a validated configuration. This technology is integrated with the OCVS Provisioning Service and can be enabled for all cluster servers. The system does not load UEFI drivers or applications until the OS loader is signed with a cryptographic signature, but you can only install signed packages of vSphere Installation Bundles (VIB). TPM 2.0 hardware chips check the integrity of the platform, the validation process itself can be monitored through vSphere Client.

• Integration of OCVS ESXi hosts with OCI File Storage Services. With just three OCVS nodes, you can build a 120 TB storage cluster with VMware vSAN services. VMware and Oracle validated their work based on the Network File System version 3.0 (NFSv3) file system. OCI monitoring and notification services using e-mail, PagerDuty and Slack services are available for cloud instances. OCI Infrastructure Health Monitoring is now fully configured and running for bare-metal hosts. Using the OCI Observability Service, administrators can configure alerts and notifications based on infrastructure metrics. These capabilities can work in conjunction with traditional monitoring and alerting tools.

• Validate VMware Site Recovery Manager and VMware vRealize Cloud Management with OCVS. VMware SRM is now fully validated in the OCVS cloud, read more in Oracle Site Recovery Manager on OCVS Playbook. The Site Recovery Manager for OCVS license is included in Site Recover Manager for Hyperscalers. Also, vRealize Cloud Management is fully validated with OCVS in 37 OCI Cloud Regions. The following products can now be used in the OCVS cloud:
  • vRealize Operations Cloud
  • vRealize Automation Cloud
  • vRealize Log Insight Cloud
  • vRealize Network Insight Cloud

• VMware Horizon validation in the OCVS cloud. Previously, there was a great interest from users in hosting the virtual PERSONAL COMPUTER () infrastructure VDI in the OCVS cloud, now this solution is fully validated.

• Validate VMware Tanzu Standard edition in the OCVS cloud. VMware Tanzu Standard, based on Kubernetes clusters, can now be fully utilized in the OCVS public cloud^[1].

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