Today at VMworld 2016 in Las Vegas, VMware Inc. announced the latest release of its OpenStack distribution, based off of the OpenStack Mitaka Release, VMware Integrated OpenStack 3. Today VMware is introducing new features, including support with VMware Cloud Foundation, that are designed to make deploying OpenStack clouds simpler and more cost-effective as well as allowing customers to use existing VMware vSphere workloads in an API-driven OpenStack cloud.
Today at VMworld 2016 in Las Vegas, VMware Inc. announced the latest release of its OpenStack distribution, based off of the OpenStack Mitaka Release, VMware Integrated OpenStack 3. Today VMware is introducing new features, including support with VMware Cloud Foundation, that are designed to make deploying OpenStack clouds simpler and more cost-effective as well as allowing customers to use existing VMware vSphere workloads in an API-driven OpenStack cloud.
As most in the industry embrace the cloud to accelerate application development lifecycles as well as the ability to rapidly respond to new business opportunists, VMware is jumping on this opportunity to help developers become more productive. Already a top 10 contributor to OpenStack, VMware latest OpenStack Integration is based off of the new Mitaka release. This new integration will help customers take full advantage of the new enhancements that center around manageability, scalability and user experience. Customers currently using VMware OpenStack Integration 2 will be able to take advantage of the built-in upgrade capability to seamless migrate to OpenStack Integration 3.
VMware states that it can run full OpenStack in as little as two VMs with its optimized and architected management control plane. Its latest integrated version of OpenStack should reduce the infrastructure and related costs required to power a production-ready OpenStack cloud that can scale to thousands of VMs, volumes, and networks while streamlining operations. Users can use the management control plane to build a small OpenStack cloud for ROBO and branch locations, in what VMware is claiming as little as 15 minutes. Not only that but the new version allows users to import existing VMware vSphere VMs into OpenStack, that means no time will be lost on key project workloads.
Customers will be able to leverage their existing investments in VMware, as the OpenStack Integration enables them t to deliver OpenStack APIs to development teams on top of VMware infrastructure. This means that IT can use VMware vRealize Operations and VMware vRealize Log Insight, that are tightly integrated with the OpenStack Integration, to deliver faster monitoring and troubleshooting of their OpenStack and virtual infrastructure. VMware’s Business for Cloud customers will be able to perform a cost and capacity analysis of VMware Integrated OpenStack Cloud so that they can compare costs to operating infrastructure in the public cloud. Customers using this new OpenStack integration should be able to deploy production OpenStack clouds in mere weeks. As an active partner in the OpenStack community, VMware packages, tests and supports all components of the distribution, including the full open source OpenStack code.
Availability
VMware Integrated OpenStack 3 is expected to be available in the third quarter of 2016. The OpenStack distribution is available at no cost to qualified customers running VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus Edition, VMware vSphere with Operations Management Enterprise Plus Edition, vSphere Standard Edition with NSX Advanced and VMware vCloud Suite. Production-level technical support for VMware Integrated OpenStack including the OpenStack open source code is optional and available for purchase separately.
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