VMware is not letting the grass grow beneath its feet since joining the OpenStack community and has announced support for its ESX hypervisor on OpenStack.
VMware has been engaging with OpenStack more and more over the past few months. First, it purchased Nicira, then immediately after that deal closed, the company applied to become a member of the OpenStack Foundation.
One of the biggest questions since has been how will VMware contribute to OpenStack. VMware, has announced
a compute driver within OpenStack that would support vSphere. Adding to the support of Xen, KVM and Hyper-V.
Some have said VMware joining Openstack has been to slow the project down, we believe it endorses the project and shows the need for an open cloud platform. Clearly it competes with vCloud Director but also allows sales of vSphere as normal.
OpenStack is already being used by some big-name public cloud providers such as Rackspace and HP to launch public cloud services. That puts it in direct competition with VMware's vCloud Director.
In addition to announcing the ESX support, VMware is also supporting OpenStack in orher ways including Nicira's work in the virtual networking Quantum project, and the effort of integrating its Cloud Foundry platform as a service into OpenStack.
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