OpenNebula

OpenNebula is an open source toolkit for cloud computing. It is intended for management of heterogeneous infrastructures. When IaaS cloud solution ( Infrastructure as a Service ) OpenNebula can be used to create private, public or hybrid clouds.

OpenNebula orchestrates storage, network, virtualization, monitoring, and security technologies for deployment of multi-tier services (eg computer clusters ) as virtual machines on distributed infrastructures. This resource of data centers and clouds based on defined rules are applied.

In one of the European Commission on the future of cloud computing report is:

"Only few cloud dedicated research projects in the widest sense havebeen Initiated - most prominently amongst them probably OpenNebula. "

"Only a few research projects in the broadest sense on the subject of cloud were initiated - the most prominent among them is probably OpenNebula. "

The toolbox includes functions for integration, maintenance, scaling, security and accounting. There emphasis is also placed on standardization, interoperability and portability, whereby users of a OpenNebula - based cloud the choice between different widespread cloud APIs have ( EC2 Query, OGF OCCI and vCloud ) and hypervisors (Xen, KVM and VMware). The flexible architecture allows to combine various hardware and software combinations in a data center.

The OpenNebula project has taken on a mentoring role in the Google Summer of Code 2010.

OpenNebula is sponsored by C12G.

According to a publication in the OpenNebula blog is now obtained support from Microsoft so that OpenNebula future will also support HyperV.

Use

OpenNebula is used by the following organizations and projects:

• 4CaaSt
• Bonfire
• CERN
• CESGA
• D-Grid Resource Center Ruhr
• Delta Cloud
• RESERVOIR
• SARA
• StratusLab

OpenNebula is included in the following Linux distributions:

• Debian Wheezy
• Ubuntu Natty