Oracle Workloads – Where Eagles Dare !!!

This August, the VMware flagship conference VMworld 2019 will again take place in San Francisco at the Moscone Center. A highlight of the event this year will be the Virtualizing Applications customer workshops.

This is the 4^th consecutive year that this elite program has been offered as an extended learning opportunity for the attendees of VMworld.  There will be 6 separate workshops , each of which is focused on a specific technology or application, running on VMware Technologies.

Subjects as diverse as Oracle, SAP, Microsoft SQL Server , Active Directory, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and “VMware vSphere Advanced Performance Design, Configuration & Troubleshooting” session will be repeated this year in a 4-hour format.

Each of these workshops will be delivered by a prominent lead instructor, as well as a list of expert guest instructors from both inside and outside VMware. These workshops are filled with practical experience and advice from industry experts that thrive in these technology areas every day.

There will be a short break of 30 minutes during the workshop for lunch which will be provided.

Please check for actual start times for these workshops in the VMware Content Catalog.

Starting 2019 , these sessions are made available as part of the session catalog , so be sure to add the workshop to your list of session selected.

There are a limited number of seats, to ensure many opportunities for attendee participation and they are on a first come first serve basis.  Don’t miss your chance, register early!

https://www.vmworld.com/myvmworld.jspa

Oracle on VMware Cloud on AWS – Custom CPU Core Count

VMware Cloud on AWS is an on-demand service that enables customers to run applications across vSphere-based cloud environments with access to a broad range of AWS services. Powered by VMware Cloud Foundation, this service integrates vSphere, vSAN and NSX along with VMware vCenter management, and is optimized to run on dedicated, elastic, bare-metal AWS infrastructure. ESXi hosts in VMware Cloud on AWS reside in an AWS availability Zone (AZ) and are protected by vSphere HA.

The use case for deploying VMware Cloud on AWS are multi-fold namely

• Data Center Extension & DR
• Cloud Migration
• Application modernization & Next-Generation Apps build out

The following topics are covered in this blog post in the following order –

• VMware Cloud on AWS –Initial availability model
• Brand New Feature – Custom CPU Core Count – February 12th, 2019 (SDDC Version 1.6)
• Important considerations regarding Custom CPU Core Count capability
• Oracle Licensing Considerations with ‘Custom CPU Core Count’ feature
• Understanding Oracle Licensing on the VMware Cloud on AWS with ‘Custom CPU Core Count’
• Understanding Oracle Licensing on the VMware Cloud on AWS

Key Points to take away from this blog

As has been very well documented in the previous blog post , Oracle licensing is not based on Memory, Storage, Cluster, vCenter or Network.  It is either User-based (Named User Plus) or Processor-based (Socket-based in case of Standard Edition 2 (SE2) or core-based in case of Enterprise Edition (EE) ).

There are only 3 documents which are relevant for any Oracle licensing discussion and contract:

• Technical Support Policy
• Processor Core Factor Table
• Oracle License and Service Agreement (OLSA) / Oracle Master Agreement (OMA)

The OLSA/OMA states “Processor: shall be defined as all processors where the Oracle programs are installed and/or running.”

Oracle licensing does not change from a licensing perspective, whether you run Oracle workloads on a classic vSphere environment, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure solution like vSAN, or VMware Cloud on AWS.

Introduction

This blog attempts to address the concerns around the recent Java SE 8 public updates and what it means to VMware customers who use Java in their environment.

The below content is a collection of updates from Oracle Corporation which has been accumulated and posted in this blog for ease of reading for the viewers.

Oracle has announced that, effective January 2019, Java SE 8 public updates will no longer be available for “Business, Commercial or Production use” without a commercial license.

VMware has a commercial license and support agreement with Oracle for Java SE for Embedded Use and our commercial license allows for distribution until November 4, 2022.

What this means is

• For any VMware product , which is part of the VMware suite of products and which the customer is licensed to use by VMware, if that VMware product has a Java component/s ie if that VMware product has Java bundled with it as a product , VMware’s commercial license agreement till Nov 4, 2022 will cover all VMware core products including Java.
• For any non-VMware product , whether its a custom Java application deployed in a Guest VM or a 3rd part non-VMware product , both not part of the VMware suite of products, having a Java component/s, responsibility of licensing that Java component/s is ON the Customer. This change in licensing policy is a solely and wholly because of the fallout of the changes in Oracle Java licensing rules