Hello, and welcome to this Module an Introduction to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. My name is Tijo Thomas, and I'm a Principal Cloud Evangelist at Oracle. Oracle Cloud VMware Solution or OCVS, is an integrated solution developed from a partnership between Oracle and VMware. The Solution enables you to run VMware software-defined data center natively hosted under Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Oracle and VMware have partnered together not just in developing that solution, but also provides the required technical support at different tier levels. There are also a wide range of capabilities like native integration to Oracle Cloud services, including other use cases like database and apps being deployed on top of VMware SDDC to achieve some of its benefits. Now before I get into the product specifics, let's look into what is a Software Defined Data Center. Primarily, there are three building blocks that forms a physical data center. The compute, which means the servers. The storage for storing your data and networks, your switching, routing, security, etc. Most cases, the compute servers will be running a hypervisor, which means you can run several virtual machines overriding the limitations of a physical server. SDDC is a concept that extends this virtualization to all other resources in a data center. Whether it could be your storage array or network, everything is fully software defined and makes it an abstraction layer of resources. Together forming a platform of multiple virtual data centers delivered as a service. Resources in an SDDC is shared between the application workloads which means you have better control over allocation and consumption of resources. There is no longer a one-to-one dependency to a physical resource. This grouping together allows you to oversubscribe which means you can maximize a resource several times it is actually meant to be. SDDC capitalizes on agility, elasticity, and scalability. One of the top advantage of being software defined is automation. For example, whether it could be automating some of the key functions like creating a compute source or it could be operational management like monitoring the usage of a resource, or taking an appropriate action with adding or deleting a resource all in an automated way. SDDC provides a high degree of flexibility. Because the workloads operate independently, you can deliver an SDDC on a flexible mix of private and Hybrid Clouds like OCVS. Due to the fact there is no interdependency, this provides the environment to be portable and also providing capabilities to seamlessly integrate new applications which makes SDDC a modernized platform. VMware Cloud Foundation or VCF is the industry leading product from VMware which incorporates compute, storage, networks, and delivers a highly reliable scalable SDDC platform. Oracle Cloud VMware Solution is based on some of the core components of VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere, NSX, and vSAN. There are a wide range of features you can achieve with this integration like optimizing your east-west traffic, load balancing your workloads, or storage services like rate production, deduplication, compression, etc. Let's look into the VMware software editions used in the solution. All these software products together provide a proven certified architecture for SDDC deployment. The product stack includes vSphere Enterprise Plus. The versions are interoperable between products and you can choose to deploy the latest 7.0 Update 2, or 6.7 or 6.5 Update 3 versions. NSX-T Enterprise Plus Version 3.1.2 and vSAN are also part of the deployment process, vSAN is not a separate appliance, and so vSAN version is tied to the version of vSphere deployed. HCX is one of the key product that brings the service into a true hybrid cloud model. There are two license additions for HCX, the Advanced or Enterprise. HCX Advanced is the free edition included while enabling the service, and Enterprise is an upgrade. There are different set of features compared to these two editions which we will be covering in details in one of the upcoming modules. The Bare Metal used are Dense IO 2.52 servers, a high-performance compute configuration. For production purposes there is a minimum of three nodes required to be chosen. This cluster would give you a total of 156 OCPUs, approximately two terabytes of memory, 153 terabytes of NVMe SSD drives for recent data store. Finally, you always have the option to add more nodes to the cluster. To wrap up, we looked into how the partnership between Oracle and VMware enables you to run a software-defined data center through Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. We also looked into the definitions of SDDC which is a logical abstraction of physical data center helping to maximize the resource consumption, capitalizes agility, elasticity, and which is all delivered on a mix of private and Hybrid Cloud like OCVS. Finally, the top product bundle from VMware. VMware Cloud Foundation and some of the core products like vSphere, NSX-T, vSAN, and HCX provides a highly scalable and reliable SDDC platform or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. That's an introduction to OCVS, and let's move on to the next lecture.
