Enterprises using VMware Cloud Foundation can deploy Oracle Databases on Amazon Elastic VMware Service paired with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP to achieve sub-millisecond storage latency, seamless snapshot backups, and cross-region disaster recovery while maintaining familiar operational workflows.
- Combines bare metal EC2 instances with tiered NetApp ONTAP storage for performance and resilience
- Enables snapshot-based backups and cross-region disaster recovery with SnapMirror
- Supports seamless VMware toolset preservation for streamlined operations
Infrastructure signal
Amazon Elastic VMware Service deploys VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x on EC2 bare metal instances, supporting a choice of instance families optimized for CPU speed or memory and storage density. This selection impacts Oracle licensing costs and performance trade-offs, with the i7i instance type favored for workloads sensitive to CPU throughput and storage latency.
Storage separates transient IO and persistent database files using local NVMe and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP respectively. FSx for ONTAP provides sub-millisecond responses, high throughput, and enterprise-grade features like snapshots and SnapMirror for seamless cross-region disaster recovery, ensuring high availability with scalable, managed storage.
Developer impact
Developers and DBAs can continue using existing VMware operational tooling, minimizing retraining and operational friction. The architecture supports self-deployed VMware Cloud Foundation with automation templates for phased deployments, accelerating environment setup and validation in evaluation mode before licensing.
The split storage architecture improves the development workflow by offering fast local NVMe for transient data and managed NFS datastores for persistent files, reducing IO wait and boosting database responsiveness. Features like snapshot-based backups and replication ease testing, recovery, and deployment consistency.
What teams should watch
Teams should carefully assess their Oracle workload characteristics and consider the licensing implications of instance selection early. Choosing between CPU-optimized and memory/storage-dense bare metal hosts impacts cost and performance, so aligning these with workload needs is critical.
Monitoring cross-region SnapMirror replication states and validating snapshot schedules is essential for disaster recovery readiness. Operations teams must also track hybrid connectivity and VMware Cloud Foundation cluster health to maintain high availability and observability.