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OpenNebula 4.4 Released
Release of OpenNebula Retina with a simple but feature-rich, customizable and open solution to manage enterprise private clouds and virtualized data centers
The OpenNebula Project is excited to announce the nineteenth stable release of its widely deployed OpenNebula cloud management platform, a fully open-source solution for data center management and enterprise cloud computing. With a sysadmin-centric approach, OpenNebula is the open operating system of choice in the converged data centre, combining a powerful virtualization manager that supports traditional IT features such as fault tolerance and failover, with the dynamic provisioning, elasticity and multi-tenancy of the enterprise cloud.
OpenNebula 4.4 Retina includes support for multiple system datastores, which enables the definition of scheduling policies for storage load balancing. The monitoring subsystem has switched from a pulling mechanism to a massively scalable pushing model, being now able to monitor hundreds of thousands of VMs in a few minutes. An important effort has been also made in enhancing the support for cloud bursting to Amazon, enabling a transparent offload of computing power whenever the local infrastructure cannot cope with the demand. Moreover, the Amazon EC2 and EBS interfaces implemented by OpenNebula have been revisited and extended to support new functionality.
“OpenNebula’s roadmap is completely driven by users needs with features that meet real demands, not features that result from an agreement between IT vendors planning to create their own proprietary solution”, said Ruben S. Montero, Chief Architect of OpenNebula. “An active and engaged community, along with our focus on solving real user needs in innovative ways and the involvement of the users in a really vendor-agnostic project, constitute the OpenNebula’s recipe to success”, said Ignacio M. Llorente, Director of OpenNebula.
With tens of thousands of deployments around the globe, OpenNebula is parked in some of the biggest organizations including research leaders like FermiLab, European Space Agency and SurfSARA, and industry leaders like Produban – Bank Santander, Akamai, CentOS, BBC, Blackberry and China Mobile. The first OpenNebula Conference, held in Berlin in October 2013, served as a meeting point of cloud users, developers, administrators and builders, and featured talks with experiences and use cases from these organizations.
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OpenNebula 4.2 Released
New version of OpenNebula with multi-tier cloud application orchestration and tighter integration with VMware and Xen, and final speaker line-up for OpenNebula Conference 2013 with industry and research leaders.
The OpenNebula Project is excited to announce the first update of the fourth series of its widely deployed OpenNebula cloud management platform, a fully open-source solution for data center management and enterprise cloud computing. With a sysadmin-centric approach, OpenNebula is the open operating system of choice in the converged data centre, combining a powerful virtualization manager that supports traditional IT features such as fault tolerance and failover, with the dynamic provisioning, elasticity and multi-tenancy of the enterprise cloud.
OpenNebula 4.2 gives users and administrators an easy way to create, publish, share, and manage multi-tier cloud applications and define auto-scaling policies based on service level metrics and time schedule. The new service flow functionality converts an infrastructure cloud into a powerful environment for the execution of elastic business applications. OpenNebula 4.2 also includes improved VMware drivers, enhanced support for Xen4, a new simple provisioning tab for Sunstone, and other minor enhancements like datastore monitoring and more hooks.
“The new features make OpenNebula the most advanced open replacement for vCloud,” said Ruben S. Montero, Chief Architect of OpenNebula. “The new update offers a unique, application-centric approach to help organizations increase business agility,” said Ignacio M. Llorente, Director of OpenNebula.
OpenNebula 4.2 will be shown at OpenNebula Conference 2013, from 24 to 26 of September in Berlin. This first ever OpenNebula Conference will serve as a meeting point of cloud users, developers, administrators, builders, integrators and researchers, featuring talks with experiences and use cases from organizations like Produban - Bank Santander Group, China Mobile, FermiLab, Deutsche Post E-Post, European Space Agency, CentOS Project, Akamai, and BBC. The Conference agenda (http://www.OpenNebulaConf.com) also includes a hands-on tutorial, lightning talks, as well as hacking and open space sessions that will provide an opportunity to present and discuss burning ideas, and meet face to face to discuss development.
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OpenNebula 4.0 Released
The fourth generation of OpenNebula is the result of seven years of continuous innovation in close collaboration with its users
The OpenNebula Project is proud to announce the fourth major release of its widely deployed OpenNebula cloud management platform, a fully open-source enterprise-grade solution to build and manage virtualized data centers and enterprise clouds. OpenNebula 4.0 (codename Eagle) brings valuable contributions from many of its thousands of users that include leading research and supercomputing centers like FermiLab, NASA, ESA and SARA; and industry leaders like Blackberry, China Mobile, Dell, Cisco, Akamai and Telefonica O2.
OpenNebula is used by many enterprises as an open, flexible alternative to vCloud on their VMware-based data center. OpenNebula is a drop-in replacement to the VMware’s cloud stack that additionally brings support for multiple hypervisors and broad integration capabilities to leverage existing IT investments and keep existing operational processes. As an enterprise-class product, OpenNebula offers an upgrade path so all existing users can easily migrate their production and experimental environments to the new version.
OpenNebula 4.0 includes new features in most of its subsystems. It shows for the first time a completely redesigned Sunstone, with a fresh and modern look. A whole new set of operations are available for virtual machines like system and disk snapshotting, capacity re-sizing, programmable VM actions, NIC hotplugging and IPv6 among others. The OpenNebula backend has been also improved with the support of new datastores, like Ceph, and new features for the VMware, KVM and Xen hypervisors. The Project continues with its complete support to de-facto and open standards, like Amazon and Open Cloud Computing APIs.
“OpenNebula 4.0 is the realization of a vision of simplicity, openness, code-correctness and a sysadmin-centric approach”, said Ruben S. Montero, Chief Architect of OpenNebula. “OpenNebula is the only open-source cloud management platform that is ready for the enterprise, without having to install any add-on or enterprise extension, and with direct support from its developers”, said Ignacio M. Llorente, Director of OpenNebula.
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OpenNebula 3.8 Released
OpenNebula brings the most solid, powerful and flexible open-source alternative to proprietary management platforms for building enterprise clouds
The OpenNebula Project is proud to announce the thirteen stable release of its fully open-source, widely-used cloud platform for managing data center's virtual infrastructures. OpenNebula 3.8 (Twin Jet) brings valuable contributions from many industry members of its large user community, including new innovative features developed by China Mobile and Research in Motion for their flagship deployments serving millions of users.
Twin Jet enhances its AWS and OCCI API implementations and the integration with VMware and KVM, which are the most widely used hypervisors in OpenNebula clouds. OpenNebula 3.8 additionally seamlessly integrates with the new virtual router in the OpenNebula marketplace and brings new features in the Sunstone and Self-service portals. An important effort has been made to distribute the software with the same packaging formats as those used by the main Linux distributions.
“The tight integration with VMware and the support for virtual data centers provision, cloudbursting and clustering make OpenNebula the most powerful open-source alternative to proprietary cloud management platforms”, said Ruben S. Montero, Chief Architect of OpenNebula. “This release incorporates innovative features from the flagship cloud deployments of many industry and research leaders that contribute to OpenNebula”, said Ignacio M. Llorente, Director of OpenNebula.
OpenNebula delivers the most feature-rich, customizable and open solution to build enterprise virtualized data centers and private clouds on Xen, KVM and VMware. OpenNebula is an active project with a very large user base, with more than 5,000 downloads per month and thousands of deployments that include leading research centers like CERN, FermiLab and ESA; supercomputing centers like SARA and NCHC; telecom operators like RIM, China Mobile and Telefonica O2; and integrators like Logica, Engineering and KPMG.
C12G Labs, the company behind the project, delivers a commercial distribution of OpenNebula for organizations looking for a certified, long-term supported platform. OpenNebula and C12G are trademarks of C12G Labs. All other company and product names mentioned are used only for identification purposes and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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