Results for: OpenStack's vSphere support

OpenStack Project Policy Board elections

It's election time in OpenStackLand!  You could, of course, do no better than to vote for me :-) Here are some details on the process.  My manifesto follows. Ewan Mellor, OpenStack Project Policy Board election nominee I am currently a member of the OpenStack Project Policy Board, and I am seeking re-election. At Citrix, I lead a team of 20 in developing an OpenStack-based product (codenamed "Project Olympus" if ...

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VMware customers – here’s a real cloud for you

I hear from almost every Enterprise and service provider that vCloud is not what they want. Why? A significant concern is that it locks you into a single vendor cloud model that is utterly undifferentiated yet appallingly expensive, nickel and dime-ing you on a per-VM basis for every possible feature. Project Redwood - a massive undertaking from my friend the Sheriff ...

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OpenStack’s vSphere support

OpenStack today gained support for VMware vSphere! This brings the OpenStack compute options to seven: vSphere, XenServer/Xen Cloud Platform, Xen, Hyper-V, KVM, QEMU, and UML. LXC isn't far behind, which will make eight. The vSphere support was a culmination of three months of effort inside Citrix, and support from many others in the OpenStack community, resulting in a development and QA proposal, 5000 ...

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OpenStack’s baby Bexar

Congratulations to the OpenStack community on the birth of their second child! The Bexar release popped into the world today amid fanfare and some great announcements from partners and friends around the industry. Particularly exciting were the announcements from Cisco, Canonical, Grid Dynamics and Extreme Networks that they were officially joining the OpenStack community. This brings it to almost 50 organizations ...

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