VMware vSphere is the world’s leading virtualization platform, estimated to run on more than six million physical servers in businesses. But enterprises looking to implement private clouds often turn to OpenStack and up till now this has had limited support for vSphere.
Cloud specialist Platform9 has an answer with the general availability of Platform9 Managed OpenStack for VMware vSphere environments. This is a SaaS solution that transforms an organization's existing servers into an AWS-like agile, self-service private cloud.
"Platform9's mission is to make private clouds easy to deploy and manage for the enterprise. By fully supporting VMware vSphere, we are enabling every VMware customer to instantly derive greater value and infrastructure agility from existing virtualized infrastructure," says Sirish Raghuram, Co-founder and CEO of Platform9. "Customers no longer need to choose between the world's leading private cloud platform (OpenStack) and the world's leading virtualization platform (VMware vSphere): Platform9 Managed OpenStack is 100 percent interoperable with VMware vSphere, allowing customers to integrate OpenStack and vSphere seamlessly. Developers can have self-service provisioning using OpenStack while at the same time, IT Operations manages the underlying infrastructure using vSphere".
Using a SaaS delivery model Platform9 Managed OpenStack not only makes it easy for IT to quickly deploy an OpenStack private cloud but also provides ongoing operational support by including monitoring, troubleshooting and updates for OpenStack. It fully supports VMware vSphere environments and a new VMware specific Virtual Appliance is now available to integrate the OpenStack controller services with vSphere resources.
It offers self-service automation making life easier for developers, support for OpenStack APIs, a single pain view with KVM and VMware vSphere virtualization. Docker support is in development with a beta expected later this year. Platform9 takes care of monitoring, troubleshooting and upgrading the OpenStack framework, ensuring customers have a reliable production environment.
Platform9 Managed OpenStack is available now and there's a free trial available on the Platform9 website.
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