Adrian Ionel, CEO of Mirantis, which has its own OpenStack distribution and recently partnered with Softlayer to create an OpenStack-as-a-service offering, was critical of VMware’s approach.

VMware is integrating OpenStack application programming interfaces (APIs) into its cloud management software, meaning that customers can run an OpenStack-based cloud using VMware’s management tools.

The addition of VMware high availability helps Platform9 and ZeroStack pitch OpenStack as a cloud environment for enterprises.

The problem with both the open source OpenStack cloud controller and its analog in the VMware world, formerly known as vCloud and now known as vRealize, is that neither of these tools have the look ...

VMware provides its OpenStack distribution VIO for free to its vSphere customers, but they have to pay for support.

VMware is not the only company that is mashing up its ESXi hypervisor with the OpenStack cloud controller to create a VMware-compatible private cloud stack. Platform9 is doing it, too.

VMware Inc. and Rackspace Inc. have teamed up together to create a new, interoperable OpenStack cloud platform that was unveiled at #VMworld 2015 yesterday. The new architecture is aimed at ...

$ sudo pip install openstack-heat Set Up qemu as the VM Type Because you're running a nested installation of OpenStack in a virtual machine, you need to tell Kolla to use qemu as the hypervisor ...