One of the key successes of OpenStack is its exposure to other hypervisor vendors—no vendor lock-in. As virtualization platforms have continued to evolve over the last decade, cloud providers have faced a major challenge regarding how to unlock their opportunities to keep growing. OpenStack makes it possible to support and integrate more virtualization technologies at pace—more freedom of choice. Extending your private OpenStack cloud should not only be limited to bringing more power to the compute fleet, but also enabling flexibility across supported virtualization platforms. At the time of writing, OpenStack supports the following hypervisor technologies:
- Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) (libvirt)
- QEMU
- LXC
- XenServer
- VMware
- Docker
- Hyper-V
An exhaustive list of the supported hypervisors in OpenStack can be found at http://docs.openstack...