Canonical has partnered with VMware to allow organisations to use Canonical’s OpenStack distribution with VMware technologies.
Under the partnership, Canonical will offer commercial support for OpenStack and will collaborate with VMware on issues related to vSphere or NVP running with OpenStack, while VMware will support Ubuntu as a fully supported guest operating system (OS) on vSphere.
Canonical’s Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure, the OpenStack distribution will now include the plugins to support the use OpenStack with vSphere and NVP.
VMware vSphere Product Management vice president Joshua Goodman said, "Canonical’s Ubuntu technology is widely used by those deploying OpenStack, and joint customers will be able leverage the familiar and proven capabilities of the vSphere infrastructure in which they’ve already invested."
Canonical and VMware will join forces on software testing, deployment automation, customer support and reference designs.
In addition, VMware’s support of Ubuntu as a guest OS on vSphere allows users to run production workloads at the highest virtual machine densities.
Canonical Sales and Business Development senior vice president Chris Kenyon said, "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."
