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3.2 Hybrid cloud support
Hybrid cloud is quickly becoming the de facto standard of IT. Two-thirds of organizations that
blend traditional and cloud infrastructure together are already gaining advantage from their
hybrid cloud. A hybrid cloud model enables the building and deploying of applications quickly
with optimized utilization of resources and the lowering of costs. In addition, being able to
centrally manage private, public, or dedicated cloud resources with a single management tool
while securely connecting traditional workloads with cloud-native apps enables clients to
respond to their dynamically changing business priorities in a more agile and timely fashion.
3.2.1 Hybrid infrastructure management tools
Power Systems OpenStack-based PowerVC management upwardly integrates into various
third-party hybrid cloud orchestration products, including IBM Cloud Orchestrator, VMware
vRealize, and others. Clients can simply manage both their private cloud VMs and their public
cloud VMs from a single, integrated management tool.
VMware vRealize uses PowerVC OpenStack capabilities to interact with PowerVM and
PowerKVM, allowing for management and integration of Power-based virtual machines into a
single orchestration platform. A diagram of the OpenStack-based PowerVC upward
integration with VMware vRealize can be seen in Figure 3-3.
Figure 3-3 Diagram of the OpenStack-based PowerVC integration with VMware vRealize
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