So sánh oracle VM và VMware vsphere

Tóm tắt các điểm khác biệt chính của Oracle 1. Chi phí thấp hơn do miễn phí Giấy phép sử dụng phần mềm ảo hóa và Phí hỗ trợ kỹ thuật thấp: Oracle VM hợp lý hơn rất nhiều so với VMware. VMware tính phí giấy phép sử dụng phần mềm từ 995 đến 3,495 cho mỗi khe cắm Bộ vi xử lý – CPU Socket cho các gói có tính năng tương đương. Trị giá 25% phí giấy phép sử dụng phần mềm cho Ấn bản vSphere Enterprise và Enterprise Plus và trị giá 32,5% cho ấn bản vSphere Standard được tính mỗi năm cho phí hỗ trợ kỹ thuật và đăng ký sử dụng dịch vụ phần mềm (Software and Subscription SnS) để nhận hỗ trợ kỹ thuật cho Sản phẩm 24x7. Vui lòng tham khảo nội dung theo đường dẫn Oracle VM vs. VMware vSphere 5 Cost Calculator. Oracle cung cấp miễn phí Trình quản trị máy chủ ảo hóa Oracle VM Manager, Trình quản trị tập trung và toàn diện cơ sở hạ tầng Ops Center ở mọi nơi với Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Management Base Features miễn phí. Theo cách khác thì VMware lại đang khắt khe yêu cầu người dùng phải trả tiền: cứ 1 giấy phép của vCenter Operations Management Suite cho mỗi 25 máy chủ ảo hóa VM được quản trị. 2. Rủi ro vận hành thấp hơn do có thể cung cấp dịch vụ Hỗ trợ kỹ thuật cho tất cả các tầng công nghệ của Oracle, chỉ từ duy nhất 1 nhà cung cấp có trách nhiệm toàn phần là Oracle: Oracle cung cấp toàn bộ các thành phần công nghệ trên các tầng công nghệ: công nghệ ảo hóa đẳng cấp doanh nghiệp – enterprise, phần mềm lớp giữa middleware dẫn đầu trong toàn ngành công nghiệp CNTT, HĐH và ứng dụng đẳng cấp doanh nghiệp – enterprise, tất cả được cấu hình và cấp phép sử dụng phần mềm cho máy chủ trong môi trường vận hành thực production. Người dùng có thể nhận được dịch vụ hỗ trợ kỹ thuật cho tất cả các sản phẩm có trên tất cả các tầng công nghệ, ứng dụng và cơ chế quản trị từ cùng 1 nhà cung cấp mà chỉ với duy nhất 1 cuộc gọi yêu cầu dịch vụ hỗ trợ kỹ thuật. 3. Khả năng nâng cấp mở rộng và hiệu suất cao hơn: giải pháp Oracle VM có thể hỗ trợ lên tới 160 Bộ vi xử lý ảo hóa vCPU trên mỗi máy chủ ảo hóa VM so với VMware vSphere chỉ có thể hỗ trợ tối đa lên tới 64 Bộ vi xử lý ảo hóa vCPU đối với ấn bản Enterprise Plus và chỉ có thể hỗ trợ tối đa 8 Bộ vi xử lý ảo hóa vCPU cho các ấn bản thấp cấp hơn. Đây chính là khả năng có thể nâng cấp mở rộng lớn hơn gấp 5 lần và lợi thế về hiệu suất của Oracle VM. 4. Quản trị toàn diện cơ sở hạ tầng vật lý và ảo hóa: trong khi Oracle VM Manager và Oracle Enterprise Manager có thể cung cấp khả năng quản trị ảo hóa cục bộ và quản trị tập trung và toàn diện cơ sở hạ tầng CNTT vật lý và ảo hóa của người dùng thì VMware vCenter chỉ có thể cung cấp khả năng quản trị tập trung cho môi trường ảo hóa của chính VMware mà thôi. VMware chỉ có sự hỗ trợ kỹ thuật rất hạn chế cho việc quản trị cơ sở hạ tầng vật lý và hầu như không thể cung cấp dịch vụ hỗ trợ kỹ thuật được cho các cấp độ cao hơn của các tầng công nghệ khác. 5. Triển khai nhanh chóng cơ sở hạ tầng linh hoạt sẵn sàng cho giải pháp điện toán đám mây: sử dụng các mẫu thiết bị ảo hóa Oracle VM Templates, Oracle có thể cung cấp các thiết bị ảo hóa, các virtual containers có thể được thiết kế và triển khai bên trong hoặc bên ngoài giải pháp điện toán đám mây, như 1 dịch vụ tác nghiệp chuyên dụng hoặc dịch vụ theo yêu cầu on demand, tất cả trong đó có thể được triển khai tự động bằng cách sử dụng Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder và Gói quản trị các máy chủ áo hóa Oracle VM Management Pack .. Trong khi đó VMware phải yêu cầu tới rất nhiều nhà cung cấp để đạt được điều này vì VMware chỉ cung cấp 1 thành phần công nghệ (máy chủ ảo hóa) trong 1 thiết bị chuyên dụng – appliance tổng thành. Dưới đây là 10 lý do hàng đầu chỉ ra tại sao Oracle VM lại có thể cung cấp giá trị tốt hơn VMware vSphere 1. Chi phí thấp hơn (giấy phép sử dụng phần mềm có bản quyền và dịch vụ hỗ trợ kỹ thuật) 2. Khả năng nâng cấp mở rộng và hiệu suất (160 Bộ vi xử lý ảo hóa vCPUs so với 64 Bộ vi xử lý ảo hóa vCPUs) 3. Oracle cung cấp hoàn thiện các thành phần công nghệ trên tất cả các tầng công nghệ (máy chủ vật lý, máy chủ ảo hóa, ứng dụng) 4. Quản trị tích hợp (quản trị môi trường vật lý và môi trường ảo hóa) 5. Khả năng tăng tốc Triển khai ứng dụng (Các Oracle VM Templates được xác thực công nghệ certified, Trình khởi tạo môi trường ảo hóa Virtual Assembly Builder) 6. Đảm bảo Cấp độ sẵn sàng cao High Availability không chỉ cho trình ảo hóa hypervisor mà còn cho toàn bộ các tầng công nghệ, (tùy chọn High Availability RAC, Phần mềm kết nối cụm Clusterware) 7. Kiến trúc định hướng cho hiệu suất cao (chỉ 1 nhóm chuyên gia kỹ thuật duy nhất nhưng có trình độ chuyên sâu cho cả HĐH Linux và Oracle VM, dẫn đến khả năng tối ưu hóa tốt hơn) 8. Hỗ trợ tích hợp (tích hợp với myOracle Support) 9. Công nghệ Ảo hóa được tích hợp sẵn vào hệ thống (Logical Domains LDOM, Solaris Container) 10. Hỗ trợ toàn diện các nền tảng (Intel x86 và UNIX SPARC)

VMware vSphere Overview

vSphere 5.1 is the latest release of VMware’s hypervisor which evolved from the original ESX 1 over the last few years The following diagram shows the historical progression of VMware’s hypervisors:

On August 27, 2012, at VMworld 2012, VMware announced the VMware vSphere 5.1 release which will support up to 64 vCPUs, an increase from 32 vCPUs, and increased I/O operations per second (IOPS), from 1M IOPS per host to >1M IOPS per host vSphere 5.1 now comes natively with EMC's Avamar backup and recovery software, which also includes data duplication capability This reflects tighter integration between the VMware and EMC products The Enterprise Plus Edition of vSphere 5,1 also includes the new VMware Distributed Switch (VDS) which is in addition to the vSwitch included with the vSphere VDS uses VXLAN as the transport

With vSphere 5.1, VMware has decided to abandon its previously announced vRAM based licensing model for the vSphere based on customer dissatisfaction for using that model when vSphere 5 was announced on July 12, 2011 and has gone back to the original CPU socket based licensing

VMware also announced a new VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 with the software-defined datacenter message The vCloud Suite offers VMware’s virtualization, cloud infrastructure and management portfolio in one package The newly announced vCloud Suite 5.1 is a single SKU (stock-keeping unit) consisting of:

 VMware vSphere hypervisor

 VMware vCloud Networking and Security

 VMware vCloud Director and VMware vCloud Connector

 VMware vFabric Application Director

 VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite

 VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager

The following diagram shows the various components of the vCloud Suite VMware mentioned that the newly acquired DynamicOps, which supports heterogeneous virtualizations, will sit on top of the vCloud Director, using it for managing the vSphere environment while also managing the other hyper environments Steve Harrod mentioned that DynamicOps is a “Service Governor” that can automate and control how applications and users are provisioned across physical and heterogeneous cloud (read virtual) platforms

vCloud Suite is available in 3 editions – Standard, Advanced and Enterprise, with the differences in feature sets as shown in the table below:

vCloud Suite is priced per CPU socket with no restrictions on the number of cores per socket The following table shows the prices for the three editions of vCloud Suite with license prices ranging from

$4995 per CPU for the Standard Edition to $11495 per CPU for the Enterprise Edition VMware vCloud Suite is a free upgrade for users with an Enterprise Plus vSphere license,

VMware vSphere 5.1 and the new Cloud Infrastructure

The following diagram shows the various components of VMware’s Cloud Infrastructure Suite:

vSphere 5.1 Hypervisor Editions

VMware vSphere 5.1 is available under the following Editions:

 vSphere Enterprise Plus

 vSphere Enterprise

 vSphere Standard

 vSphere Essentials Plus

 vSphere Essentials

 vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), a starter edition which is free

vSphere Standard, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus are higher editions which are more comparable to Oracle VM and hence this document primarily deals with those three higher editions See Appendix A for the differences between the various editions of vSphere 5.1

vSphere Essentials and Essential Plus Editions are specially packaged versions targeted to Small and Medium

Businesses (SMBs) with limited features and restrictions on the number of cores per CPU socket They also need additional Acceleration Kits (AK) with extra cost if the customers want to upgrade to the higher editions Therefore, they are not comparable to Oracle VM

The following table provides a features overview and compares the Standard, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus Editions of VMware vSphere 5.1:

Overview

Server consolidation and no planned downtime

Powerful & efficient resource management

Policy-based datacenter automation

Support Cost

$323 per year (32.5% for Production Support 24x7)

$719 per year (25% for Production Support 24x7)

$874 per year (25% for Production Support 24x7)

vCPU Entitlement per VM (Max

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for

VMware

Centralized Management Compatibility

 vCenter Server Foundation

 vCenter Server Standard

 vCenter Server Foundation

 vCenter Server Standard

 vCenter Server Foundation

 vCenter Server Standard Product Features

Thin Provisioning

Update Manager

Data Recovery

High Availability

vMotion

Storage APIs for Data Protection

Virtual Serial Port Concentrator

Hot Add

vShield Zones

Fault Tolerance

Storage APIs for Array Integration

Storage APIs for Multipathing

Storage vMotion

Distributed Resources Scheduler

(DRS), Distributed Power

Management (DPM)

Storage I/O Control

Network I/O Control

Distributed Switch

Host Profiles

Auto Deploy

Storage DRS

Profile-Driven Storage

(Source: Compare VMware vSphere 5.1 Editions)

Note: Auto Deploy, Storage DRS and Policy-Driven Storage are new in vSphere 5.1

vSphere Management

The following are the set of management products for vSphere:

 vCenter Operations Management Suite (former vCenter and EMC IONIX combined)

 vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

 vShield Security

 vCloud Director

Operational and license management for VMware vSphere are done through VMware vCenter Operations

Management Suite which is a separately licensed product vCenter is now required for the license management under the new licensing model

VMware vCenter Server provides unified management for VMware vSphere environments and is a required

component of a complete VMware vSphere deployment One instance of vCenter Server is required to centrally manage virtual machines and their hosts and to enable all VMware vSphere features vCenter is mandatory since it is required for license management:

 License is charged in packs of 25VMs being managed (One license is limited for up to 25 VMs being managed and additional VMs require additional vCenter licenses at 25 VMs per license)

 $4875 per VM for Enterprise Edition, plus 25% per year for 24x7 support

 vCenter is primarily for vSphere management Enterprise management requires other vendor products

VMware vCenter Operations

Enterprise Edition $4875 + 25% yearly for 24x7 support

Enterprise Plus Edition Negotiated

VMware vCenter Server is available in the following packages:

 VMware vCenter Server Standard – Management with provisioning, monitoring, orchestration and control of all virtual machines in a VMware vSphere environment

 VMware vCenter Server Foundation – Centralized management for up to three VMware vSphere hosts

 VMware vCenter Server for Essentials kits – Integrated management for VMware vSphere Essentials kits All editions of vCenter Server include the following components:

 Management server - Acts as universal hub for provisioning, monitoring and configuring virtualized

environments

 Database server – Stores persistent configuration data and performance information

 Search engine – Allows administrators to search the entire object inventory of multiple VMware vCenter Servers from one place

 VMware vSphere Client – Provides administrators with a feature-rich console for accessing one or more VMware vCenter Servers simultaneously

 VMware vCenter APIs and NET Extension – Allows integration between vCenter Server and other tools, with support for customized plug-ins to the VMware vSphere Client

VMware vCenter Server Standard also includes the following additional features:

 vCenter Orchestrator – Streamlines and automates key IT processes

 vCenter Server Linked Mode – Enables a common inventory

VMware’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Products

The following lists VMware’s VDI products:

 VMware View

 VMware ThinApp

 VMware Workstation

 VMware Fusion

 VMware Player

 VMware ACE

VMware also facilitates a VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace, where third-party providers can provide Virtual Appliances, the containers for virtual machines It maintains a library of virtual appliances spanning a diverse set of solutions that will help simplify deploying applications in a cloud Virtual appliances are similar to Oracle VM

Templates

What is New in Oracle VM

The following are the highlights of the new Oracle VM 3.x:

• Improved Scalability and Performance

– Oracle VM can support physical servers totaling up to physical 160 CPUs and 4TB memory and 160 virtual CPUs and 1 TB of vRAM per VM – 2.5X more than the maximum of 64 virtual CPUs per VM and

1 TB of vRAM supported by VMware vSphere 5.1, per VMat a fraction of the cost

• Automated Policy-Based Resource Management:

– Improves application Quality of Service (QoS) and reduce power consumption for maximum operational efficiency by dynamically relocating running VMs across a server pool based on load

• Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) for capacity management:

– Provides real-time monitoring of Oracle VM Server utilization to rebalance a server pool and provide consistent resources to the running VMs DRS migrates VMs away from heavily loaded Oracle VM Servers to those servers with more resources available

• Distributed Power Management (DPM)

– DPM complements DRS to reduce the number of powered-on servers in the pool when there are periods of low resource utilization It can automatically power-on capacity as needed when resource utilization ramps up

• Storage Connect Storage Configuration and Management

– Oracle VM Storage Connect is a plug-in API

– Allows the Oracle VM Manager to automatically discover available storage

– Allows Oracle VM Manager to directly leverage the resources and functionality of customers’ existing storage systems in the Oracle VM environment

– Supports native storage services such as SAN or NFS storage creation, deletion and expansion – Allows users of Oracle VM Manager to configure storage to be used with a virtual machine through various storage management vendors (VMware, on the other hand, requires its own storage file system

to overlay storage volumes in order to ensure the live migration or the "vMotion-ing" of its virtual machines That move has prompted storage vendors with their own storage file systems to try to work with other virtualization vendors Fujitsu, Hitachi Data Systems, and NetApp are among those enlisted

to provide access to their systems through Oracle VM Storage Connect Oracle's own Pillar Axiom SAN storage system and Sun ZFS Storage Appliance also work through the Storage Connect API)

• Centralized network configuration and management

– Oracle VM Server logical network configuration and management is now performed using Oracle VM Manager; for example, NIC port bonding, and configuring VLAN Networks

• Updated Xen hypervisor

– More efficient power management capabilities, broader hardware support, better performance, and greater scalability and security for both hardware-virtualized and para-virtualized guest operating

systems

• Updated Dom0 command and control kernel with the latest drivers

– Enhanced hardware support for higher performance, leveraging the latest Oracle Unbreakable

Enterprise Kernel

• Updated OCFS2 1.8 cluster file system

– Instant clone support that provides significantly faster virtual machine provisioning and cloning

• Support for Open Virtualization Format (OVF)

– OVF is an open standard for packaging and distributing virtual appliances

– Customers can now use Oracle VM Manager to import a broad range of OVF based software

assemblies, all of which are produced by Oracle to accelerate application deployment

• Browser Based Manageability from Anywhere

– Oracle VM GUI is pure browser-based: with no client software required, and provides accessibility from

“anywhere” on the web

• Dynamic user interface

– Based on the latest Oracle ADF dynamic html capabilities, the Oracle VM Manager now includes a fully interactive tree view and automatic refresh to show the real-time state of the physical and virtual environment

• Server and storage discovery

– Discover Oracle VM servers and storage in your environment to quickly get large numbers of servers up and running

• Job management framework

– Every Oracle VM Manager operation is performed as a “job” A job consists of all the steps involved in the successful completion of the operation For each job, Oracle VM Manager provides status, such as percent complete, each step completed, and the steps remaining Through the GUI, an administrator can view and abort a job at any time, or if the job is aborted by the system because of a terminal failure, the state is rolled back to its original state

• Extensive event logging

– Oracle VM Manager maintains an extensive event or “job” history that is accessible through the

Manager GUI, providing a simple way to see who made changes within the environment and to trace failures

• Resource information

– Performance statistics are available for CPU, memory, disk and network for each physical server and virtual machine Events are displayed for each physical and virtual object, such as port up/down status

IP address and other configuration information are displayed directly in the user interface

Product compare

X86 Virtualization

Software

Virtualization and Cloud

Management

 Oracle VM Manager

 Oracle VM Templates

 Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder

 Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle VM Management Pack

 VMware vCenter Server (formerly VMware VirtualCenter)

 VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager

 VMware vDirector vCloud Suite is a special bundle including the hypervisor and management in one package

VDI and Desktop

Virtualization

 Oracle VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure)

 Oracle Secure Global Desktop

 Oracle VM VirtualBox

 VMware View

 VMware Workstation

 VMware Fusion

 VMware ThinApp

 Oracle Sun Ray Clients  VMware ACE

 VMware Player

Summary of Oracle’s Key Differentiators

1 Lower Cost Due to Free License and Low Support Fee: Oracle VM is much less expensive than

VMware VMware charges a license fee of $995 - $3,495 per processor sockets for comparable bundles 25% of

license fees for the vSphere Enterprise and Enterprise Plus Editions and 32.5% for the vSphere Standard Edition

are charged per year for Software and Subscription (SnS) to get 24x7 Product support See Oracle VM vs

VMware vSphere 5 Cost Calculator Oracle provides free Oracle VM Manager, Ops Center everywhere with

Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Management Base Features free VMware on the other hand requires customers

to pay for one license of vCenter Operations Management Suite for every 25 VMs being managed

2 Lower Risk Due to Full Oracle Stack Support and Single Vendor Accountability: Oracle provides the whole

stack: enterprise virtualization, industry-leading middleware, enterprise OS, and enterprise applications - all

configured and licensed for production use You get the stack, applications and management from the same

vendor with a single support call

3 Higher Scalability and Performance: Oracle VM can support up to 160 virtual CPUs per VM compared to

VMware vSphere’s maximum of 64 vCPUs for the Enterprise Plus Edition and just 8 vCPUs for the lower

editions That is at 5X scalability and performance advantage for Oracle VM

4 End-to-End Management of Physical and Virtual Infrastructure: Oracle VM Manager and Oracle Enterprise

Manager provide local virtualization management and centralized management of your physical and virtual IT

infrastructure, whereas VMware vCenter provides centralized management for only VMware virtual environment

There is very limited support for physical infrastructure management and virtually no support for higher levels of

the It stack

5 Rapid Deployment for the Agile Infrastructure and the Cloud: Using Oracle VM Templates, Oracle can

provide virtual appliances, virtual containers that can be designed and deployed on an internal or external cloud,

as a dedicated business service or a service on demand, all of which can be automatically deployed using the

Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder and the Oracle VM Management Pack VMware requires multiple vendors to

achieve this since it provides only one component (virtual machines) of an appliance

Here are the Top 10 Reasons why Oracle VM provides better value than VMware vSphere

1 Lower Cost (license and support)

2 Scalability and Performance (160 vCPUs vs 64)

3 Complete Stack from Oracle (server, virtualization, apps)

4 Integrated Management (management of physical and virtual environment)

5 Accelerated Application Deployment (Certified Oracle VM Templates, Virtual Assembly Builder)

6 High Availability for the whole stack, not just for the hypervisor (High Availability RAC, Clusterware)

7 Architected for Efficiency (single engineering team for Linux and Oracle VM, leading to better optimization)

8 Integrated Support (myOracle Support integration)

9 Virtualization Built into the System (LDOM, Solaris Containers)

10 Comprehensive Platform Support (x86 and SPARC)

Server Virtualization and Management Overview – Oracle vs VMware

The following table provides a high-level comparison of server virtualization and management capabilities of Oracle and VMware:

Scalability – Max physical memory in server pool 4 TB tested 2 TB

RAC, Clusterware) (HA)

Monitor resources (CPU, memory, disk and network I/O, OS,

Manage virtual environments with an application and business

Virtual VM appliance libraries with certified pre-configured

Full support for Oracle applications, middleware and database  

Summary of VMware vSphere’s Weaknesses

vSphere’s Weaknesses

 VMware hypervisors are very expensive, especially when production quality hypervisors are available free

of license cost from major vendors

 vSphere has a lower performance than Xen based hypervisors such as Oracle VM

 VMware needs a bunch of partners to provide enterprise and cloud management (BMC, CA, Cisco, and

EMC) Customers have to deal with multiple vendors to get complete management

 VMware has oversold cloud computing and vCloud as its cloud initiative when it provides only a small

component (virtualization) of cloud computing

 VMware’s management products are limited to local management of hypervisors It has no end-to-end

management of physical and virtual infrastructure for the enterprise

 VMware’s virtual appliances are limited to deployment of just VMs It relies on users and partners to

provide virtual appliances for various applications

 For Oracle customers, Oracle DB and Applications are not fully supported on VMware and hence

increases the risk

Detailed Oracle Differentiators, VMware Weaknesses and Customer Considerations

Oracle Differentiators VMware Weaknesses Customer Considerations

(Traps) Lower License and Support Cost

 Oracle VM is much less expensive

than VMware Oracle VM binaries

are free, and Oracle VM support

services are $599 annual price per

system with up to 2 physical CPUs

(sockets) and $1199 annual price

per system with unlimited physical

CPUs (sockets)

 VMware’s license and support costs are already very high

basic management adds more cost compared to Oracle VM Manager which is free

 What is the 3-year cost of license and support for vSphere?

See the section Licensing and Pricing

for more details

End-to-End Management

 Oracle Enterprise Manager

provides deep process automation,

end-to-end Provisioning and Patch

Automation, ITIL compliance, zero

downtime automation and

integrated physical and virtual

system management

 VMware mainly provides hypervisor management and relies

on other vendors (BMC, CA, HP, IBM, etc.) as partners to provide end-to-end management

 How do you manage your physical and virtual infrastructure end to end?

 Do you want to maintain management silos – one for virtual servers and one for the rest?

Lower Risk Due to Full Stack Support:

 Oracle offers integrated, full stack

support including virtualization,

operating system, database,

middleware, and applications The

hardest bugs to diagnose are those

that span database or middleware

and the operating system Adding

virtualization to that mix makes it

even tougher

 Oracle DB and applications are not fully supported on VMware whereas they are fully supported

on Oracle VM If a customer encounters a problem, they have

to take the time and effort to duplicate the problem on a physical infrastructure This is very risky and can affect business continuity

 Do you want to risk your business in running your critical applications on unsupported

configurations?

 What is the cost of down time?

Scalability and Higher Performance:

 Oracle VM can support physical

servers totaling up to physical 160

CPUs and 4TB physical memory

and 160 virtual CPUs and 2TB

vRAM per VM – 2.5X more than the

maximum of 64 virtual CPUs per

VM supported by VMware vSphere

5.1

 Oracle VM is faster and more

efficient than VMware for Linux

environments because it can use

both Para-virtualization (PV) and

hardware-assisted virtualization

(HV) See Performance Evaluation

of Oracle VM: The Tolly Group

Benchmark Report

 VMware can support a maximum

of 64 vCPUs per VM for the Enterprise Plus Edition and only 8GB per VM on other editions

Though they can support 1 TB of vRAM, the vCPUs limit the scalability and hence performance gains

 Is application performance critical to you success on the virtual infrastructure?

 How scalable is VMware vSphere? What is the maximum number of vCPUs that can be allocated to a VM?

Rapid Deployment for the Agile

Infrastructure and the Cloud:

 Oracle provides virtualization,

application integration and

automation to optimize the manual

labor costs associated with

building, deploying, and operating

IT business services in virtualized

or cloud environments Oracle’s

virtual appliances, called Oracle VM

Templates, are virtual containers

that can be deployed on an internal

or external cloud as a dedicated

business service or a service on

demand, all of which can be

automatically deployed using the

Oracle VM Management Pack

 Oracle was the first to effectively

deliver on the promise of

enterprise-class virtual appliances

 VMware’s vCloud Director provides functionality comparable

to Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder and uses virtual appliances similar

to Oracle VM Templates The virtual appliances are available at VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace

 VMware relies on partner and user community to provide application specific virtual appliances

VMware requires multiple vendors

to achieve this since it provides only one component (virtual machines) of an appliance This means that the customers have to either manually install and configure applications on virtual servers or rely on a bunch of vendors to provide the appliances

 Do you want to quickly roll out pre-built and

application-ready virtual servers to meet changing demand in a very cost effective manner?

 How many vendors do you need to deal with in order

to roll you’re your applications on VMware?

 Who will guarantee support for virtual appliances form the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace?