VMware Cross-Cloud Services Now Available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace 

Wow, what an amazing few weeks it’s been for all the VMware and Oracle customers out there! First, we had an incredible VMware Explore 2023 event, followed by a fantastic Oracle CloudWorld 2023, including exciting announcements like the addition of Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS) to the VMware Cloud Universal Program (VMCU) – you would think it couldn’t get any better, but the excitement doesn’t stop there! We’ve got some more thrilling news to share with you today. We are excited to announce that VMware has joined the Oracle Cloud Marketplace with immediate access to a wide range of your favorite VMware products. Please check out the Oracle Cloud Marketplace and read the full news release. 

Now, you might be wondering, what does this mean for you as our shared customer? Well, let us break it down. The Oracle Marketplace is a one-stop shop for Oracle customers seeking trusted business applications and services offering unique solutions, including ones extending Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications. And now, with the addition of familiar VMware Cross-Cloud services to the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, customers will enjoy a simple way to purchase VMware products. Plus, qualified customers can use existing Oracle Universal Credits to make transactions through private offers. No more waiting for approvals or dealing with a ton of paperwork – your Oracle Universal Credits are your golden ticket to accessing a vast portfolio of VMware products that can help you modernize your critical enterprise applications in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). It’s truly a dream come true! 

We’ve made it even easier for you to get started. We’ve compiled a list of VMware Cross-Cloud services accessible via the Oracle Marketplace. Let’s delve into and guide you in the right direction: 

• Optimizing Cloud Environments with VMware’s Aria 

VMware Aria Operations for Networks offers a versatile set of capabilities to address the needs of modern network and cloud environments. It empowers organizations to achieve unified visibility, optimize performance, reduce downtime, and enhance security in their hybrid and multi-cloud operations addressing key use cases: 

• Multi-Cloud Networking 
• App Discovery and Migration 
• App and Cloud Security 

The VMware Aria Universal Suite addresses various use cases: 

VMware Aria Automation empowers organizations to streamline their operations and optimize efficiency by simplifying cloud experience with a multi-cloud infrastructure automation platform, improving IT productivity and efficiency to prepare for the future. Furthermore, VMware Aria Automation extends its value through Multi-Cloud Governance, offering: 

• Project-based policies  
• Governance 
• Cost control to centrally manage resource access and utilization. 

VMware Aria Operations enables IT operations management across private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments with a unified, high-performance platform. By providing Continuous Performance Optimization, it ensures hybrid cloud performance at minimal cost through real-time predictive analytics and AI workload balancing. With Integrated Compliance, it helps organizations reduce risk and adhere to regulatory standards. 

By deploying VMware Aria Operations for Logs, you can manage data at scale with centralized log management, deep operational visibility, and intelligent analytics for troubleshooting and auditing across environments. The integration with VMware Aria Operations extends operational visibility and proactive management capabilities across infrastructure and applications. 

• Streamlining Disaster Recovery Management in Oracle Cloud  

Site Recovery Manager provides policy-based management, minimizes downtime in case of disasters via automated orchestration, and enables non-disruptive testing of your disaster recovery plans. Site Recovery Manager is the only VMware-integrated solution that runs on any storage platform and is purpose-built to ensure that your Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) are met. 

Site Recovery Manager on Oracle Cloud VMware Solution fulfills the needs for various use cases, such as disaster recovery, disaster avoidance, planned data center migrations, site-level load balancing, and application maintenance testing. Site Recovery Manager is designed to ensure fast and highly predictable recovery times, simplify management through automation, and minimize the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). 

• Accelerating Kubernetes Adoption with Tanzu Portfolio  

VMware Tanzu is a portfolio of technologies to support modern apps and infrastructure for delivering better software to production faster. VMware packages Tanzu technologies into solutions that address the most common enterprise modernization challenges. Among these packages, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, Tanzu Application Service, and Tanzu Mission Control are now available in the Marketplace of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.  

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid is an enterprise-ready Kubernetes runtime that streamlines operations across a multi-cloud infrastructure. It is designed and built on the leading open-source technologies of the Kubernetes ecosystem Engineered to simplify installation and Day 2 operations, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid packages together key open-source technologies and automation tooling to help you get up and running quickly with scalable, multi-cluster Kubernetes environment. It is tightly integrated with vSphere and can be extended to run with consistency across your public cloud and edge environments.

VMware Tanzu Application Service is a modern application platform for enterprises that want to continuously deliver and run microservices securely at scale both on-premises and across clouds. It’s the best runtime for Spring and Spring Boot: Spring Boot apps “just work” on Tanzu Application Service, with no modification. Tanzu Application Service provides application development benefits and an automated path to production:

• Speed: Tanzu Application Service enables rapid time to value for your custom code by managing everything else for you. 
• Scalability: Tanzu Application Service uses Cloud Foundry BOSH to help deliver enterprise SLAs as the business grows. 
• Secure by default: Tanzu Application Service is highly automated and improves the security posture across the application portfolio, dramatically lowering risks posed by manual processes. 

VMware Tanzu Mission Control is a centralized management hub with a robust policy engine that simplifies multi-cloud and fleet Kubernetes management. Platform operators can reduce complexity through centralized management, increase consistency through configuration management, and offer a better developer experience with self-service through Tanzu Mission Control. 

All these mentioned offerings are validated on Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. If you’re an Oracle Cloud VMware Solution customer, please explore the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Marketplace for information on purchasing VMware services. Also, stay tuned for exciting updates as we continue to expand our product offerings in the months ahead. For more details about Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, please visit our official website.