PayPal transferred servers from VMware on OpenStack

2015: PayPal transferred the servers to OpenStack

At the end of March, 2015 it became known that PayPal transferred the servers to the OpenStack platform. Process of migration continued about three years.

PayPal decided to refuse completely the systems of virtualization and creation of cloud services of VMware for benefit of a private cloud of OpenStack. Thus, at the end of March, 2015 nearly 100% of all workloads of an international payment system began to be executed in OpenStack.

Transition to OpenStack will allow PayPal payment system to save the huge amounts

Transition to this platform will allow the company to save the huge amounts. If before PayPal, working in an old system with all restrictions of not dynamic infrastructure, spent for entering of any change into applications up to three months, then with transition to OpenStack time was reduced to several minutes.

Besides, having passed to the open source solution, the company got bigger liberty and flexibility in optimization of IT systems and also got rid of a binding to the producer.

"Thanks to OpenStack the PayPal company received more control of settings and more wide choice of the vendors working with hybrid cloud environments" — Sri Shivananda, the vice president for the global platform and infrastructure of PayPal said.

PayPal has 4100 physical servers with the standardized configuration and architecture of x86. All of them support OpenStack cloud created in the company. The company did not begin to ask for the help other suppliers of open cloud computing architectures, Shivananda emphasized.

By data for 2014, 162 million users of PayPal made payments for the total amount of $228 billion. Taking into account it PayPal can be considered the largest financial service working at OpenStack cloud, notes the InformationWeek edition.^[1]

PayPal began transition to the platform with the open code OpenStack during a New Year's Eve season in 2011. Already then infrastructure of payment system for 20% was transferred to this cloud.

In one of an interview in 2013 Boris Rensky, the cofounder and the marketing director of Mirantis (the board member of the OpenStack Foundatio organization, said that at first PayPal will replace solutions of VMware with OpenStack, and then the same will be made by eBay parent company. By the end of 2015 of PayPal will find independence of eBay.

Sri Shivananda did not begin to comment on actions of eBay in the relation of OpenStack and only noted that this company and PayPal have separate plans and terms for implementation of a cloud of OpenStack.

On June 3, 2015 in Moscow TAdviser holds the OpenStack DAY conference. Registration here.

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