OpenNebula is an open-source software platform for building and managing private, public, and hybrid clouds. It provides a simple yet powerful management platform that allows system administrators to automate and orchestrate the operation of enterprise clouds on existing IT infrastructure. The OpenNebula project started in 2005 as a research project and has grown to a large, active open-source community of over 90,000 users. OpenNebula aims to provide flexibility, simplicity, and efficiency for both users and system administrators in deploying and managing cloud infrastructure and applications.

1. OpenNebula
Bringing Simplicity to the Enterprise Cloud
Ignacio M. Llorente
OpenNebula Project Director
© OpenNebula Project. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License
OpenNebula TechDays
Fremont, CA, USA – June 24th 2014

2. What is OpenNebula?
The Technology…

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The OpenNebula Technology
Simple but feature-rich, production-ready, customizable solution to build clouds!

4. What is OpenNebula?
The Project…

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The OpenNebula Project
From Research Project to Open-source Project for Enterprise!
2005
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
• Develop & innovate
• Support the community
• Collaborate
Large-scale production
deployment: 16,000 VMs
Ultra-scale production
deployment supporting
operation platform for
600 million customers
20142013
Research
Project
5,000 downloads/
month

6. What is OpenNebula?
The Community…

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The OpenNebula Community
An Open Community Driven by Users!
Develop
Open-source Apache code
Transparent process
Public roadmap
Communicate
User groups
Cloud technology days
OpenNebulaConf
Integrate
Add-ons catalog
Ecosystem directory
Use
Give us feedback
Contribute experiences
Help support new users

9. What is OpenNebula?
The Vision…

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Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple!
The OpenNebula Vision
Enterprise private cloud as an evolution of datacenter virtualization
Open management platform for SysAdmins and
DevOps to automate and orchestrate the operation
of enterprise clouds on existing IT infrastructure
Principles:
● Flexibility: Easy to customize to fit into any datacenter
● SysAdmin-centrism: Complete control over the cloud
● Simplicity: Easy to deploy, operate and use
● Lightness: Highly efficient

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The Power of Simplicity!
The OpenNebula Vision
Simple for Users
• Single-click provision, manage and access to virtual servers
• Just enough details of the underlying chaos
Simple for Sys Admins
• Do not hide the complexity
• Easy to inspect, understand and adapt
• Ease task automation
• Be prepared for different application types
• Just enough components and simple protocols
• Simplicity is the path to scale!

13. What is OpenNebula?
The Users…

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A Widely-used Cloud Management Platform!
The OpenNebula Users
2005
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 20142013
1,865
4,861
12,828
24,477
31,950
58,000
90% Annual Growth
Downloads

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Building and Operating Enterprise Private Clouds in Medium and Large Data Centers!
The OpenNebula Users

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