Hybrid Cloud has two dimensions:

  1. Deployment size: It can either be small or large.
  2. Deployment model: It can be self-contained or remotely tethered.

In today's world, we have many regions:

  1. Dedicated Region Cloud Customer: This is a fully managed Cloud region that brings all of Oracle's Cloud services into customer data centers in a self-contained model. It falls under the self-contained section because customers can access the same set of architecture, billing model, operational model, security, and services available in the public cloud. It also provides operational scalability, manageability, security, agility of cloud, and compliance with data sovereignty regulatory requirements.
  2. OCI Exadata Cloud@Customer: This region falls under the remotely tethered section. The control plane or service management runs in the Public Cloud, allowing customers to take advantage of existing services, governance, and operational control, while keeping hardware and data on-premises. This solution provides massive performance using Cloud@Customer.
  3. Roving edge:  This is another self-contained model, but it is closer to a small size deployment. The key component of Oracle Roving Edge is the Roving Edge Device (RED), which is a high-powered and portable server node. Customers configure a RED in their OCI console with the same services, applications, and data they use in the Cloud. Oracle then ships the device to the customer. Then, devices are deployed in the field.

One of the concepts of Hybrid Cloud is Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS). VMware is the foundation of majority of enterprise data centers. Until now, enterprises had the option to either deploy VMware with full control on-premises or delegate control to a managed service provider or a hosting provider. However, customer have started deploying their VMware workloads to different public clouds. which requires relinquishing full control over administration, access, and upgrades. Oracle Cloud VMware Solution is the only solution in the market that provides a native VMware-based cloud environment with complete control using familiar VMware tools. There are four main classifications:

  1. VMware at a managed service provider
  2. VMware customer-managed
  3. Public Cloud Hosting
  4. Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

Now, instead of running in their own data centers, customers are running their VMware workloads in Oracle Cloud data centers. They can migrate their VMware workloads to the Cloud without having to modify them. User can utilize Oracle Cloud VMware Solution to move or extend on-premises VMware-based workloads to OCI across all regions, including Oracle's on-premises dedicated regions.