Rackspace actually uses KVM, and they are among the biggest contributors in Openstack.
What few know is that their enterprise services are all running on vSphere
Luca Dell'Oca Principal EMEA Cloud Architect @ Veeam Software
Having recently spoken with former Rackspace employee about it's comming to the OpenStack Summit in Paris in November, he confirmed me that they were still running Xen and not KVM.
@Veeam team, will some of you be present at the summit. If so, just tell me so we can meet each other.
Veeamizing your IT since 2009/ Veeam Vanguard 2015 - 2023
Interesting. I knew that their first gen platform was Xen, but I had been told many years ago, before it had been rolled out, that the second gen platform would use KVM, so I had always assumed that it was. Good to know!
Well,four years later, is Veeam going to change its mind?
Citrix is still supporting and Upgrading the product, even reintroducing support for features that were depracated and althought it is mainly used in XenDesktop enviroment, there are severall customer requesting a proper backup solution.
The majority of CloudStack Clouds, of which there are significantly more deployments than OpenStack, use Citrix XenServer over any other Hypervisor. In fact the pecking order is XenServer, KVM and then VMware which has a tiny foot print compared to XenServer.
Now XenServer has been open sourced, the 'market share' for XenServer is growing and a viable Hypervisor based back-up solution is desperately needed.
I urge you re-consider this stance, and open up a massive new market for Veeam.
cloudstackguru wrote:Seriously - NO plans to support XenServer!
The majority of CloudStack Clouds, of which there are significantly more deployments than OpenStack, use Citrix XenServer over any other Hypervisor. In fact the pecking order is XenServer, KVM and then VMware which has a tiny foot print compared to XenServer.
Now XenServer has been open sourced, the 'market share' for XenServer is growing and a viable Hypervisor based back-up solution is desperately needed.
I urge you re-consider this stance, and open up a massive new market for Veeam.
The question is though how many of these cloud providers actually open up the Hypervisor to the customers? If you don't have access at the hypervisor then Veeam is of no use to you anyway.
are you satisfied with the market share of Xenserver now, xenserver is in third position after VMware and hyper-v.
I believe it is a must to support xenserver, the only thing which resist lot of people migrating from VMware to xenserver is lack of backup tools.
many vendors will move immediately if you support xenserver.
I believe it worth effort for your business to gain more customer base.
