The OpenStack Board of Directors meeting on Tuesday evening had a packed agenda, including voting on VMware‘s application to become a Gold member of OpenStack.
According to a report by Network World, the board “didn’t get around to considering VMware’s application” in the meeting, so it may have to wait until October 19 when the board is set to reconvene.
The meeting ran about seven hours, according to GigaOM, so the group didn’t have time to review the applications from Intel, NEC or VMware. On Monday it was reported that the three companies would apply for Gold membership.
Aside from reviewing the Gold membership applications, the OpenStack board meeting covered some financial items such as the draft budget, salaries of officers and other administrative tasks like electing a chairman, and appointing officers. Alan Clark, director of industry initiatives, emerging standards and open source for SUSE is chairman, while Lew Tucker, Cisco VP and CTO of cloud is vice chairman. On Wednesday, Linux vendor SUSE launched its first commercially supported private cloud solution based on OpenStack.
Network World says VMware is expected to be a significant contributor in the areas of virtual networking and the integration of OpenStack with VMware’s Cloud Foundry PaaS tool.
VMware acquired OpenStack contributor and software-defined networking provider Nicira for $1.26 billion in July, and VMware has changed its tune on OpenStack significantly since the acquisition. It was only a few months ago when VMware referred to OpenStack as an “ugly sister” in a blog post.
Cloud and web hosts like Rackspace and DreamHost use the network virtualization platform from Nicira to accelerate service delivery in data center environments based on OpenStack.
There is some debate about how VMware will participate in OpenStack beyond virtual networking. Some wonder whether VMware will work to further integrate its ESX hypervisor into the OpenStack project, a move that would allow VMware users to access non-VMware clouds, Network World says.
If VMware’s application is approved, it will pay $66,666.67 annually to be a Gold member.
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