VMware has collaborated with Canonical to enable customers to use Canonical's OpenStack with VMware's virtualisation technologies.
The most widely used OpenStack distribution, Canonical's Ubuntu Cloud infrastructure will now include the plug-ins necessary to use OpenStack with VMware's vSphere and Nicira NVP.
Canonical will collaborate with VMware on issues related to vSphere or NVP running with OpenStack, and will provide commercial support for OpenStack.
"Customers in both enterprise and carrier markets are eager to deploy OpenStack in conjunction with their existing VMware vSphere infrastructure," says Chris Kenyon, senior VP, sales and business development, at Canonical.
VMware has reaffirmed its support of Ubuntu as a fully supported guest OS on vSphere, which will enable customers to run production workloads at the highest virtual machine densities on a thoroughly tested hypervisor platform.
"By fulfilling our promise to deliver VMware vSphere support in OpenStack, and teaming with Canonical to serve our collective customers, we're delivering customer choice by providing a powerful platform for those interested in OpenStack clouds," says Joshua Goodman, VP, vSphere product management, at VMware.
Canonical and VMware will collaborate on software testing, deployment automation, customer support and reference designs. The agreement between the companies will provide commercial support for customers while allowing them the flexibility to deploy OpenStack clouds with Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure on VMware vSphere.
"Canonical's Ubuntu technology is widely used by those deploying OpenStack, and joint customers will be able to leverage the familiar and proven capabilities of the vSphere infrastructure in which they've already invested," continues Goodman.
VMware added vSphere support by contributing code to the OpenStack Compute project "Nova" as part of the "Grizzly" release on 4 April, building on its existing contributions to the networking project "Quantum", which focused on Nicira NVP.
"This joint offering will be a fully supported and certified solution for OpenStack cloud infrastructure that uses VMware hypervisors for compute, combining existing vSphere real estate with Ubuntu's category leading OpenStack distribution," concludes Kenyon.
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