AMD E5 standard shape now available for OCI VMware Solution

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure VMware Solution now supports E5 Standard bare-metal compute shapes with block volume storage for use as ESXi hosts in SDDCs. Some feature highlights:

• Shape name: BM.Standard.E5.192
• Processor: 4th generation AMD EPYC Processor™
• OCPUs : 192
• Available core configurations: 48, 96, 144, and 192

SDDCs that use standard shapes require block volume storage. A management datastore with the following characteristics is created as part of the create SDDC workflow:

• Capacity: 8 TB
• Default VPUs/GB: 10 (Balanced)

For more information and limitations of standard shapes, see Overview of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure VMware Solution.