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OpenNebula

Bringing Simplicity to the Enterprise Cloud Jaime Melis

Project Engineer

© OpenNebula Project. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License

CentOS Dojo Cologne, Germany– August 4th 2014

What is OpenNebula?

The Technology…

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The OpenNebula Technology An Uniform Management Layer!

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

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The OpenNebula Technology Different Perspectives of the Cloud – Demands from the Different Communities

Cloud Consumer

Cloud Administrator

Cloud Integrator

VDC Admin

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The OpenNebula Technology Cloud Architecture - The Internals of the Cloud

Interfaces, Tools& API • CLI & Sunstone (GUI) •  API •  Hybrid (EC2, Azure, SoftLayer) •  Service Management &Catalogs

Compute Hosts • Grouped into logical clusters •  Multiple hypervisors •  Monitoring

Storage •  VM disks (file & block) •  Image Distribution •  Multiple Backends

Multi-tenancy •  AAA Services •  Scheduling •  Permissions & roles

Network • VLAN •  Firewalling •  Multiple Technologies

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

2014 2013

Research Project

5,000 downloads/month

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

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!

What is OpenNebula?

The Users…

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A Widely-used Cloud Management Platform!The OpenNebula Users

2005 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2014 2013

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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We Will Be Happy to Answer Your Questions !Questions?

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