How to play around with OVCS 

11th May 2023

Oracle has the OVCS Solution. It requires at the minimum a single bare metal machine. If you have signed up for a free trial accout you get 300 USD in cloud credits for free. This allows you to run  a single node denseio OVCS SDDC for approximately 24 hours in Total.

This will allow you to not only setup your own SDDC but explore other options such as the Oracle Cloud Migrations service  which can be used to migrate VMware VMs to OCI native VMs. Of course this will burn down your credits so please go through various documentation and youtube videos before you start the process as it will burn down your credits even faster when you start trial migrations as you will require a hydration agent to help in the migration process.

Oracle has used an SDDC in OVCS as a source for the Oracle cloud migrations service so this is a nice activity to emulate. There is a youtube video from Oracle Learning with the required process that is available here.