VMware, Mirantis Put OpenStack On vSphere
November 5, 2013
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.
It just got a lot easier to build OpenStack clouds in a place where they were once deemed unlikely: atop the VMware-virtualized environment of enterprise data centers. VMware has formed a partnership with Mirantis to help its customers build OpenStack private clouds on top of their vSphere virtualized servers, as an alternative to using VMware’s own vCloud option.
VMware plus Mirantis is an unlikely pairing. Mirantis is a leading consulting firm on OpenStack implementations and an OpenStack partisan that has frequently suggested its distribution of OpenStack is a better alternative to VMware’s vCloud suite. Boris Renski, executive VP and co-founder of Mirantis, calls the VMware deal "a strategic partnership" that illustrates how both Mirantis and VMware "are trying to uphold customer choice."…
Renski, the chief spokesman announcing the partnership, made his comments to InformationWeek from Hong Kong as the OpenStack Summit got underway there Tuesday morning. Renski is also one of the two members of the OpenStack Foundation’s board of directors who voted against VMware joining the OpenStack project…
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