Hope you all are enjoying the Xmas and New Year holidays. I have taken some time off to enjoy the holidays with my family, however, I always enjoy listening to a podcast or watch a good webinar, especially if it is related to VMware. I want to share with you some of my thoughts around a recent webinar that I watched Using VMware in the Public Cloud – Oracle Community RoundTable. This one had a good mix of amazing VMware vExperts from different geographical locations around the VMware community, which made it very interesting. The webinar was hosted by John Troyer – @jtroyer, Principal Product Manager – Oracle and He was joined by Thom Greene, Principal Cloud Solutions Architect – Oracle. The panel was moderated by Patrick Redknap .
Community Guests included:
Abdullah Abdullah – @do0dzZZ
Barry Coombs – @VirtualisedReal
Erik Bussink – @ErikBussink
Jens-Henrik Soeldner – @JensSoeldner
Kim Bottu – @Kim_Bottu
Romain Decker – @woueb
Needless to say, this was an open discussion for VMware on Public cloud, the session is available for you to view here:
Watch the Webinar: Using VMware in the Public Cloud
Some of the topics discussed was around the following, procurement, security, networks and cloud-native.
Procurement is an interesting subject where normally for any company to procure hardware we see a 90 to 120 day, some of the use cases for moving on-prem datacenter to VMware public cloud, is due to the long waiting for procurement. Drive for some other companies might be due to the hardware refresh, another interesting point mentioned by John was datacenter lease renewal which makes customers move to cloud instead of investing a lot of CapEX directly investing it in OPEX.Â
Another use case are legacy applications which cant become cloud-native it makes sense to move them directly to the cloud and connect it to an existing on-prem datacenter.Â
Abdullah mentioned one interesting point, the company do not need to re-invest in training their staff as the skill set of the VMware Administrator can be leveraged as VMware core concepts remain the same and as they extend their operations they can start picking up new skills from cloud providers. The core component being SDDC using VCF4 components vSphere, vCenter, HCX, NSX-T, vSAN.
Cloud is not new today, and security is no longer an issue, however, it’s important to know who has to key to our infrastructure. We are seeing government organizations moving their workload to the cloud too.
With already existing AI platforms and machine learning systems on the cloud, customers can leverage instead of creating it from the scratch on their in infrastructure, saving time and effort.
Oracle Cloud has been focussing on 3 main themes that were most important to customers
- Control and Security
- Global availability
- Enterprise technical support
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution is available globally in all 19 commercial cloud regions You can read more about this here
You may ask what differentiates the Solution from Other Offerings? Here’s a comparison between Oracle Cloud VMware Solution and other cloud VMware offerings in the market. *
| Oracle | AWS | Azure | GCP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Features | NSX-T, vSphere, vSAN, vCenter, HCX | NSX-T, vSphere, vSAN, vCenter, HCX | NSX-T, vSphere, vSAN, vCenter, HCX | NSX-T, vSphere, vSAN, vCenter, HCX |
| Security | Customer owns root credentials. Oracle doesn’t have access to root credentials or metadata. | AWS retains root credentials and metadata perpetually. | Azure retains root credentials and metadata perpetually. | GCP retains root credentials and metadata perpetually. |
| Billing | Consolidated | Separate bills from AWS and VMware | Unspecified | Consolidated |
| Support | Oracle | VMware and AWS | Third-party support | Third-party support |
| Updates, patches, and upgrades | Customer controls when and whether to upgrade. | AWS controls and decides. | Azure controls and decides. | GCP controls and decides. |
| Availability | 19 Oracle Cloud regions, Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer | Limited to 17 AWS regions | In Preview in 3 Azure regions | Limited to 2 GCP regions |
| Maximum hosts per SDDC | 64 | 16 | 16 | 64 |
| SDDC vCenter access | Full Administrator access | Restricted access | Restricted access | Restricted access |
Find out more about Oracle Cloud VMware Solution:
- Oracle Cloud VMware Solution main web page
- Announcing the Global Availability of Oracle Cloud VMware Solution
- Comparisons of VMware-based solutions in public clouds, Keith Townsend, CTO Advisor
- Overview webinar (reg required)
Until next time, wish you all a happy, safe and prosperous new year 2021
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