Today, we are excited to announce the availability of Ravello Cloud Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). With Ravello Cloud Service on OCI, you can now bring any of your existing VMware or KVM based workloads “as-is” and run it on the Oracle Cloud. OCI innovation in the infrastructure technology enabling on-demand bare metal compute instances has enable to deliver a significantly higher performance and scalability that is no possible before in the other cloud providers. The new Ravello Cloud Server on OCI now truly makes ‘lift-and-shift’ of performance sensitive production enterprise applications to cloud a reality.
Ravello utilizes its industry leading nested virtualization and software defined networking overlay technology to make the underlying public cloud look and feel like a data-center, making this move easy. With a like-for-like environment with Ravello on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, enterprises don’t need to re-platform or re-network their VMware data-center based app – they are moved to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure “as-is”, and the physical components are simply moved to bare metal servers. This unique capability to run VMware VMs and physical hosts on the same cloud makes enterprise’s journey quick, simple and predictable.
OCI bare metal instances delivers significant performance and scale enhancement to the Ravello Cloud Service through the following technological advancement that is only possible on OCI:
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Hardware assisted nested virtualization – Oracle Cloud Infrastructure runs on the next generation of blazing fast hardware that supports virtualization extensions. These extensions allow multiple guest operating systems to share the same underlying hardware in safe and efficient manner. HVX utilizes these hardware assist CPU instruction sets to perform its nested virtualization directly on the underlying cloud hardware and offers significant performance improvements over the previous generation of HVX. Typically, the cloud providers do not expose the hardware assisted virtualization extensions to the guest VMs, which limits the performance that customers can realize when operating in a nested virtualization mode. However, with Ravello running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, we now have complete access to these hardware assist virtualization extensions, and can make performance boosts a reality.
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Directly on Bare Metal – On Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, HVX also supports the ability to run directly on top of bare metal servers. By eliminating a layer of hypervisor in the middle, HVX is able to provide near native performance.
Figure 1 HVX Nested Virtualization Modes
Ravello on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers up to 14X performance boost with hardware assisted nested virtualization and even higher by running HVX directly on bare metal.
With such performance gains, enterprises are now easily able to run their production VMware apps on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Ravello. Visit our the Oracle Ravello site for more information.
Omair Gillani
Sr. Principal Product Manager
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Team