Platform9 support without agent

[dpease81]

Hello

As I know many companies are moving away from VMware, we are looking into Platform9 as an option. They were started by previous VMware employees and looks like a pretty solid solution. Is there any plan to integrate with them for native backups not requiring an additional agent to be installed?

[Gostev]

Hello, currently there are no plans based on its market share.

[paulpreichE4]

Greetings,

As a Veeam CSP partner providing DRaaS and BaaS services, Platform9 looks like a compelling alternative to vCloud Director. I know our organization certainly see the writing on the wall with vCloud Director and that, eventually, this product will be sunset and replaced by VCF Automation. As I currently understand, VCF Automation will not be supported by Veeam alongside the rest of the VCF 9.0 stack, and support for VCF automation will come at a later date.

This would put service provider partners like us in a pickle, choosing whether to continue with the new VCF 9.0 approach or to start investing in alternatives to provide the infrastructure portion of our services. At this time, I perceive this as the biggest gap in Veeam's response to the VMWare/Broadcom shakeup and I strongly believe it beneficial for Veeam to investigate integration options outside of VMware/Broadcom as it relates to CSP partners providing both DRaaS and BaaS Services.

I look forward to hearing back and welcome any/all feedback or comments to my concerns noted.

Thanks,

Paul

[Gostev]

Hi Paul, so the team has been talking a lot to our VCSPs about this in the past months and fairly unanimous feedback has been that most of our partners intend to remain on vCloud Director for extended time with literally no one planning to rush migrating to the newly released VCF-A. Therefore clearly we have enough time to implement VCF-A support in our products before mass migration off vCloud Director starts.

As for alternative platforms, we heard very different opinions about compelling alternatives to vCloud Director from different VCSPs and will need to see some consolidation in those opinions as well as meaningful market share before deciding on where to expand our platform support next.

Thanks