Google Cloud appears to have launched a new series of partnerships with VMware. According to a statement on Google’s open source blog, Google Cloud Engine customers now have the option to use VMWare ESXi as their underlying hypervisor, as opposed to the open source KVM hypervisor.
Google explains that new users can “migrate [their] VMware-based recovery and backup workloads to Google Cloud to reduce management and storage costs while mitigating risk, and they can continue to use the tools, processes and policies [they] use locally.”
Google’s “key partners” include Zerto, Dell, Veeam, Cohesity and NetApp, emphasizing that they have “certified incident recovery, backup and storage solutions that work seamlessly with the VMware engine. Google emphasizes that they have “certified incident recovery, backup and storage solutions that work seamlessly with the VMware engine.
Google is now inviting a random number of customers to try it out by reviewing whether users can automate some of their current manual processes using infrastructure-as-code, which seems more cost-effective.
Of course, a full release is expected to take a few months, but developers and testers may be able to use these tools ahead of time.
