Ubuntu Now Available on VMware vCloud Air
VMware, Inc., and Canonical today announced that certified Ubuntu LTS images are available on VMware vCloud Air, an enterprise-grade cloud platform offering customers performance, reliability, and security for their cloud infrastructures. The relationship brings optimised and fully supported Ubuntu LTS images to VMware’s customers.
Ubuntu is the most popular host and guest operating system in the cloud and is estimated to represent almost 70 percent of the workloads running in public clouds today. Canonical has worked with VMware to test, optimise and validate Ubuntu images for VMware vCloud Air giving customers a consistent, quality cloud experience across platforms and immediate access to updates.
"Canonical’s enterprise-class Ubuntu LTS is one of the most popular cloud operating systems requested by vCloud Air customers," says Ajay Patel, vice president of Applications Services, vCloud Air, VMware. "By integrating Ubuntu into our portfolio of pre-configured OS templates, VMware is able to offer our customers another secure and versatile cloud operating system in a quick-to-deploy virtual machine."
Chris Kenyon, SVP of Canonical’s Cloud team comments; “VMware has been a leader in the enterprise private cloud and has successfully broken into the enterprise public cloud marketspace. Customers can trust Ubuntu running on VMware vCloud Air because Ubuntu is tested, verified, and supported by Canonical, and certified by VMware to run in an VMware ESXi environment.”
Existing Ubuntu Advantage support services customers can easily take their instances of Ubuntu into cloud environments from either on-premise systems or other cloud environments without having to purchase additional or new agreements.
VMware’s vCloud Air is built on its VMware vSphere foundation, which fully supports Ubuntu guests. It allows a company to use its existing VMware ESXi hypervisors as a foundation for running OpenStack. In addition, it offers seamless integration with VMware NSX, VMware’s software defined networking (SDN) solution, which allows customers to reap the operational and economic benefits of a virtualised network.
