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title: Blog posts tagged "VMware"
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# Blog posts tagged "VMware"

#### [VMware hypervisor deployment using MAAS](https://canonical.com/blog/vmware-hypervisor-deployment-using-maas)

Most modern datacenters are inherently heterogeneous. VMware environments coexist with container platforms, databases, and other bare-metal workloads, often on the same hardware over several years. Servers are bought once, but their role changes as requirements evolve. However, ESXi (the VMware hypervisor) provisioning is often handled se

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MAAS

#### [Join Canonical in Mumbai at HPE Discover More](https://canonical.com/blog/join-canonical-in-mumbai-at-hpe-discover-more)

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is proud to sponsor HPE Discover More in Mumbai. Join us to learn how Canonical and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) can help you securely advance your business with comprehensive open source solutions that span from infrastructure to MLOps platforms. Register to HPE Discover More – Mumbai What to exp

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AI

#### [Join Canonical in London at Dell Technologies Forum](https://canonical.com/blog/join-canonical-in-london-at-dell-technologies-forum)

Canonical is excited to be partnering with Dell Technologies at the upcoming Dell Technologies Forum – London, taking place on 26th November. This prestigious event brings together industry leaders and technology enthusiasts to explore the latest advancements and solutions shaping the digital landscape. Register to Dell Technologies Forum

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AI

#### [Join Canonical in Paris at Dell Technologies Forum](https://canonical.com/blog/join-canonical-in-paris-at-dell-technologies-forum)

Canonical is thrilled to be joining forces with Dell Technologies at the upcoming Dell Technologies Forum – Paris, taking place on 19 November. This premier event brings together industry leaders and technology enthusiasts to explore the latest advancements and solutions shaping the digital landscape. Register to Dell Technologies Forum –

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AI

#### [Join Canonical in Dallas at Dell Technologies Forum](https://canonical.com/blog/join-canonical-in-dallas-at-dell-technologies-forum)

Canonical is excited to be a sponsor of the Dell Technologies Forum in Dallas, taking place on November 14th. This is a great opportunity to learn about the latest open-source solutions from Canonical and Dell Technologies, and how they can help you transform your business. Register to Dell Technologies Forum – Dallas Empower your organiz

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AI

#### [Join Canonical in Brazil at Dell Technologies Forum São Paulo](https://canonical.com/blog/join-canonical-in-brazil-at-dell-technologies-forum-sao-paulo)

Canonical is excited to be a part of the Dell Technologies Forum in São Paulo on October 30th. This exclusive event brings together industry leaders to explore the latest technological advancements. Register to Dell Technologies Forum – São Paulo Unleash the power of open source innovation Don’t miss this opportunity to network with indus

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AI

#### [Join Canonical in Sydney at Dell Technologies Forum](https://canonical.com/blog/join-canonical-in-sydney-at-dell-technologies-forum)

Canonical is excited to be exhibiting at the upcoming Dell Technologies Forum – Sydney on the 24th of September. This leading event brings together industry leaders and tech enthusiasts to explore the latest advancements shaping the digital landscape. Register to Dell Technologies Forum – Sydney Engage with Cutting-Edge Solutions Canonica

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AI

#### [Join Canonical in Bangalore at Dell Technologies Forum](https://canonical.com/blog/join-canonical-in-bangalore-at-dell-technologies-forum)

Canonical is thrilled to be joining forces with Dell Technologies at the upcoming Dell Technologies Forum – Bangalore, taking place on 12 September. This premier event brings together industry leaders and technology enthusiasts to explore the latest advancements and solutions shaping the digital landscape. Register to Dell Technologies Fo

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Cloud and server

#### [ESXi Alternative: try open source LXD](https://canonical.com/blog/esxi-alternative)

LXD is a modern, secure and robust ESXi alternative. With its intuitive CLI and web interface, users can easily get started and deploy and manage their workloads easily and intuitively.

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Cloud and server

#### [Ceph storage on VMware](https://canonical.com/blog/ceph-storage-on-vmware)

If you were thinking that nothing will change in your VMware data centre in the following years, think again. Data centre storage is experiencing a paradigm shift. Software-defined storage solutions, such as Ceph, bring flexibility and reduce operational costs. As a result, Ceph storage on VMware has the potential to revolutionise VMware

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Ceph

#### [OpenStack vs VMware: Bringing costs down](https://canonical.com/blog/openstack-vs-vmware)

Moving to OpenStack from VMware can significantly reduce the TCO associated with an initial roll-out and ongoing maintenance of your cloud infrastructure. OpenStack vs VMware economic analysis shows that under certain circumstances, it is possible to bring the costs down by an entire order of magnitude. This requires choosing an OpenStack

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Cloud and server

#### [The Road to Kubernetes & vSphere Integration](https://canonical.com/blog/vsphere)

This article on Kubernetes & vSphere integration originally appeared at Kevin Monroe’s blog Background Recently, Juju began supporting cloud-native features via “integrator” charms (e.g.: aws-integrator, gcp-integrator, openstack-integrator). These allow charms to request things like persistent storage from a cloud provider without having

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Cloud and server

#### [From VMWare To Canonical OpenStack](https://canonical.com/blog/from-vmware-to-canonical-openstack)

Speaker: Stephan Fabel, Arturo Suarez Date/Time: February 21, 2018 at 12PM EST / 5PM GMT OpenStack has often been positioned as an alternative to traditional proprietary virtualization environments. Join Arturo Suarez and Stephan Fabel for: A breakdown of differences between OpenStack versus traditional proprietary virtualization and info

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Cloud and server

#### [Keynote: Maximizing developer velocity with containers](https://canonical.com/blog/keynote-maximizing-developer-velocity-with-containers)

Containers are one of the most exciting technologies in the cloud right now. But when it comes to your IT strategy, where is the best place to start? With so many different options and configurations, it’s critical that you find the best possible strategy for your software stack. To answer these questions, Canonical’s VP

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Cloud and server

#### [Get Ready For Multi-Cloud!](https://canonical.com/blog/get-ready-for-multi-cloud)

The future of cloud infrastructure will have organisations using combinations of OpenStack, Containers, public cloud, and VMware to deliver applications. In this session Mark Baker will highlight the best Multi-Cloud practises learned in the field for architecting, deploying and managing scale out infrastructure from baremetal through to

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Cloud and server

#### [Snappy Ubuntu Core now on the hypervisor of your choice with OVA](https://canonical.com/blog/snappy-ubuntu-core-now-on-the-hypervisor-of-your-choice-with-ova)

When we launched snappy Ubuntu Core, we introduced it on Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine, Amazon’s AWS and our KVM images. Immediately, developers were asking questions like, “where’s the Vagrant image?”, which we launched on 14 January 2015. The one final remaining question was “where are the images for ?”. We h

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Cloud and server

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