OpenStack Compatibility from VMware and Canonical
OpenStack Compatibility from VMware and Canonical by UCStrategies Staff
The parent company of Ubuntu Linux, VMware and Canonical, will be broadening the reach of their long-term partnership in order to ensure that VMware software can operative on Canonical’s OpenStack distribution.
It is now possible for both VMware vSphere and the Nicira Network Virtualization Platform (NVP) to operate on Canonical OpenStack. VMware has also stated that contributed code will ensure that vSphere is compatible with OpenStack’s compute component, Nova. The distribution from Canonical’s OpenStack aids vSphere plug-ins and are included in the release from the OpenStack “Grizzly.”
The VMware purchase of Nicara, an OpenStack member, took place in July 2013, and the former is attempting to demonstrate to the industry that it is committed to supporting the project.
The chief architect of VMware and the co-founder of Nicira, Martin Casado, was a member of the group which unveiled Quantum, that first dispersed networking into an individual part of OpenStack.
The management tool of VMware’s vCloud Director is in competition with OpenStack, but, according to Alpharetta, Georgia-based VMware partner GreenPages-LogicsOne’s CTO, Chris Ward, OpenStack and CloudStack are in the stronger position; VMware cannot ignore this.
Ward said: “VMware is having a big adoption issue in the market when it comes to vCloud Director, and they are hedging their bets a bit. I think it is smart of VMware to integrate with other cloud management tools that are prevalent in the market.”
Commercial support is being offered by Canonical, and will help OpenStack to solve issues (relating to vSphere or NVP running with OpenStack) with VMware. Ubuntu is already supported by VMware as a guest operating system on vSphere, and it has been noted that both organisations will collaborate to help users of Canonical OpenStack.
A spokesperson from VMware said: “The teams are already engaged, and prepared to collaborate on any issues that might come up in using the two platforms together.”
Tools such as open source compute, storage, identity and networking are all part of OpenStack, and can be used to develop infrastructure-as-a-service. OpenStack has over 150 supporting vendors. (CY) Link