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

[CraigTas]

As a current VMware VCSP, that has just been given the termination notice by VMware, Platform9 looks to a serious contender for our Private cloud / IaaS workloads. esp love the look of the free migration tool, will make migrating the thousands of VM easier. If only Veeam had native hypervisor support (we have no access to client networks).

it also looks to be more enterprise than Proxmox at this stage. but they are gaining thats for sure.

Craig.

[sford]

It should be noted that Platform9 is openstack and when Veeam is considering building a product for backing up Instances, all of the requests for a platform9 and openstack backup product should be thought of as the same. Openstack has been taking a large amount of service providers due to the multi-tenancy of the product that is not an after-thought. We have switched all of our internal services and slowly moving customers that can just use the agent to openstack as it had everything but replication support.

[vc3_jfox]

I echo the request to support Platform 9 and OpenStack. Platform9 is a very compelling alternative to vCloud Director.

[pwinkeler]

We too were a VMware Platinum partner until a few weeks ago when the rug was once again pulled out from underneath us. We're fed up and are looking for alternatives with Platform9 appearing to be the most mature w.r.t. wholistic cloud environment management, specifically its ability to manage multi-tenancy and cluster readiness. However, not having Veeam as a backup solution is a BIG drawback for us.

The cost of manually managing and maintaining a ProxMox environment is at least 1, possibly 2 FTEs; we would much rather put those $$$ towards getting Veeam to support Platform9.

What can we do to assist?