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 , 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 .

B are metal instances deliver significant performance and scale enhancement to the Ravello Service through the following technological advancement s only possible on Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure:



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 a safe and efficient manner. HVX utilizes these hardware assist CPU instruction sets to perform nested virtualization directly on the underlying hardware and offers significant performance improvements over the previous generation of HVX. Typically, the cloud providers do not expose hardware assisted virtualization extensions to guest VMs, which limits the performance when operating in a nested virtualization mode. However, with Ravello running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, we can make performance boosts a reality for customers .



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.