Target audience: Administrators of VMware environments looking to leverage Openstack Cloud builders researching compute platforms Technical decision makers on Openstack components People looking to gain knowledge on what VMware products can bring in an Openstack environment Business people looking to leverage existing investments Speakers: Justin Giardina - CTO, iland Internet Solutions Julien Angeunot - Director of Software Engineering, iland Internet Solutions In this session, we will take a deep look into what a VMware vSphere backend can bring to an Openstack deployment. We will cover in detail: Relationships between the Openstack components and how they relate to a VMware vSphere environment (Nova, Glance, Neutron, etc.). The power of vSphere for backend operations such as performance, management, networking, high availability, etc. Implementing VMware's advanced L2-L7 network features to provide services such as firewalling, load balancing, NAT, VPN, etc. in Openstack. Using Openstack on top of an existing or purpose-built VMware infrastructure Example architectures to create a fault tolerant and fully software defined Openstack cloud with VMware vSphere.