OpenNebula is an open-source tool for building private clouds on existing infrastructure that focuses on flexibility, simplicity, and being sysadmin-centric. It provides a single platform for automating and orchestrating enterprise clouds. OpenNebula has been downloaded over 150,000 times and is used to run over 3,000 production clouds, including the largest with 270,000 cores. It has been under development as an open community for over 7 years.

1. OpenNebula Introduction
Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple
An Introduction to OpenNebula
OpenNebula.org
© OpenNebula Project. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License
Ignacio M. Llorente
OpenNebula Project Director
Cloud TechDay
Boston, June 29th 2015

2. The Vision
VS
FLEXIBILITY AND SIMPLICITY TO BUILD YOUR PRODUCTION CLOUD

3. THE OPENNEBULA VISION
CLOUD AS EVOLUTION OF DATACENTER VIRTUALIZATION
OpenNebula.org
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

4. THE OPENNEBULA MISSION
BRING SIMPLICITY TO PRIVATE CLOUD COMPUTING
OpenNebula.org
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!

5. The Product
one
150,000 downloads from OpenNebula repo

6. THE OPENNEBULA TECHNOLOGY
A TURNKEY SOLUTION TO BUILD CLOUDS AND DATA CENTER VIRTUALIZATION
ü Only one OpenNebula distribution
ü Fully open-source, enterprise-ready
ü Delivered as a single, upgradable package
ü 71 releases in 8 years
LIGHT & SIMPLE
Lightweight and easy
to install, maintain,
operate, upgrade and
use
FLEXIBLE
Fully open-source and
customizable to fit
into any data center
and policies
ROBUST
Production-ready,
highly-scalable,
reliable and
supported
POWERFUL
Innovative
functionality for
private/hybrid clouds
and DC virtualization
OpenNebula.org

7. ü Disk and image snapshotting
ü Complete life-cycle
ü Accounting and showback
ü Ceph and qcow2 implementation
ü Direct consumption of GPU devices from a Virtual Machine
ü Complete refactoring of Sunstone to improve performance
ü Cloning of running VMs
ü Import running VMs in AWS and Azure
ü Import of existing KVM and Xen VMs
ü Migration of VM across Datastores
ü Improve recovery mechanisms for Virtual Machines
ü Cold Attach/Detach NIC and disk.
72nd Release: New ONE 4.14

8. THE OPENNEBULA FEATURES
FEATURES FOR VIRTUAL INFRA MANAGEMENT AND CLOUD ORCHESTRATION
KVM Xen VMware
Virtual Infra Management
• Capacity management
• Multi-VM management
• Resource optimization
• HA and business continuity
OpenNebula
Cloud Management
• VDC multi-tenancy
• Simple cloud GUI and interfaces
• Service elasticity/provisioning
• Federation/hybrid
vCenter
VMware
RDO
KVM
OpenNebula
OpenNebula.org

9. The Community
1,000 people registered at dev.opennebula

10. THE OPENNEBULA COMMUNITY
THE POWER OF USER-DRIVEN VENDOR-AGNOSTIC DEVELOPMENT
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
BBC
OpenNebula.org

11. 11/20Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple
OpenNebula
Upcoming Cloud TechDays
Paris, France 8/July
Boston, USA 29/June
Ontario, CA 10/July
Madrid, Spain 10/July

12. 12/20Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple
20 - 22 October 2015
in BARCELONA
OpenNebula
CONFERENCE
3rd edition!

13. The Users
one
Now running > 3,000 clouds
Largest cloud with 270,000 cores

14. THE OPENNEBULA USERS
BUILDING ENTERPRISE CLOUDS IN MEDIUM AND LARGE DATA CENTERS
OpenNebula.org

15. 15/20Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple
“We are no experts on OpenNebula, but
then, we don't have to be. It simply works!”

16. 16/20Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple
“Our design is working as expected we
created a new data center in just 2 days”

17. The Timeline
one
7 years of innovation

18. 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
20142013
Research
Project
5,000
down/month
2015
Very large-scale
production deployment:
200,000 VMs (10 zones)
Hybrid cloud partners
Tech Days
OpenNebula.org

19. The Commitment
one
The Open Cloud

20. THE OPENNEBULA COMMITMENT
BRINGING SIMPLICITY, OPENNESS, RELIABILITY AND FLEXIBILITY TO THE CLOUD
Openness
Run production-ready software that is
fully open-source without proprietary
extensions that lock you in
Reliability
Your cloud will run for years
with little maintenance
Flexibility
You can easily build a cloud to fit into
your data center and policies
Simplicity
You do not need an army of
administrators to build and
maintain your cloud

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Questions?
Questions?

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