[one-users] OpenNebula Vs Eculayptus

Fri Jul 3 09:25:51 PDT 2009

Hi,

Let me add to Ruben's email that one of our aims is to build an open- 
source ecosystem around OpenNebula. Several research centers and  
companies are developing new open-source components around OpenNebula  
in the context of international projects (see RESERVOIR, main EU- 
funded project [1] in virtualization and cloud, and its recent  
collaboration with EGEE [2]) and communities (see MORFEO [3]) ; and  
many open-source products and research and development initiatives are  
being defined around OpenNebula.

Best,

[1] http://www.reservoir-fp7.eu/
[2] http://www.eu-egee.org/fileadmin/documents/newsletter/summer-2009/EGEE-newsletter-summer-2009.html#news8
[3] http://cloudtechnologies.morfeo-project.org/
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On 03/07/2009, at 17:25, Ruben S. Montero wrote:

> Hi
>
> Yes you are right, both tools can be used to build a cloud. IMHO the
> main differences
> are:
>
> * OpenNebula gives you a superior administration interface. You can
> migrate, suspend VMs and so on. Also OpenNebula gives you a flexible
> physical host interface to monitor, and manage the physical resources
> of the cloud. This admin. interface and functionality is missing from
> the current Eucalyptus releases, only the functionality offered by EC2
> can be used (i.e. no suspend or migration of any kind)
>
> * OpenNebula gives you better placement policies. Either its
> out-of-the-box matchmaking algorithm that can be tuned with
> user-driver consolidation hints or in combination with Haizea that
> allows gives you advance reservation capabilities. There are some
> research initiatives developing GreenIT friendly schedulers for
> OpenNebula. Eucalyptus uses a round-robin approach.
>
> * OpenNebula allows you to manage complete services. With OpenNebula
> you can manage a service (set of VMs) as a whole including private
> networks to interconnect the service VMs. As Eucalyptus is tied to the
> EC2 interface you can not defined virtual networks.
>
> * Support for advance contextualization. OpenNebula gives you the
> ability to push any context data to a VM,  so it can auto-configure at
> boot time. (for example software licenses, IP of the service master,
> data from other VM, the role of the VM... ). I think this kind
> contextualization can not be done with Eucalyptus.
>
> * OpenNebula gives you a powerful API to extend its capabilities.
> Either to build applications on top of it or to integrate any
> storage/virtualization/network technologies. Check  the ecosystem[1]
> and related software[2] pages. Eucalyptus only gives you the EC2-soap
> interface to interact with it.
>
> * Support for multiple Virtualization technologies, KVM, Xen. Next
> release will include VMware, the driver is already implemented so you
> can try it to day[3]. Eucalyptus supports Xen, and KVM which seems to
> be their preferred platform [4]
>
> * OpenNebula can be integrated with any storage solution. As an
> example you can check the VIDA drivers [5] that  add support for
> multiple transport protocols (e.g., bittorrent). Probably this level
> of integration can be done with Eucalyptus but I am not aware of any
> works in that direction.
>
> * OpenNebula can be used to build hybrid clouds, (EC2  and Elastic
> Hosts based). So you can either deploy your VMs locally or in other
> cloud. This can not be done with Eucalyptus.
>
> * OpenNebula gives you a libvirt interface so you can control your
> infrastructure with the libvirt API or using its related tools (e.g.
> virsh).
>
> * Eucalyptus gives you the EC2 SOAP-API implementation. OpenNebula 1.2
> does not provides a simplified cloud interface like this to share your
> resources. However OpenNebula 1.4 includes a cloud API to implement
> any cloud interface, as an example we include the implementation of a
> subset of the EC2-Query API. This is also ready in the development
> branches
>
> * Eucalyptus gives you an S3 implementations. There is no such
> functionality in OPenNebula 1.2, however OpenNebula 1.4 will include a
> simple Image management tool.
>
> Probably people on the list can complete or correct this.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Ruben
>
> REFs:
> [1] http://www.opennebula.org/doku.php?id=ecosystem
> [2] http://www.opennebula.org/doku.php?id=relatedsoftware
> [3] http://www.opennebula.org/doku.php?id=documentation:rel1.4:vmwareg
> [4] http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/hosted/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218400258&subSection=Infrastructure
> [5] http://dc.crs4.it/tools/vct/download
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Massimo Canonico <canonico at mfn.unipmn.it 
> > wrote:
>> Hi guys!
>> I'm newbie.
>>
>> I'm playing with Eucalyptus (open.eucalyptus.com) and now I
>> have took a quick look at OpenNebula web pages and it seems similar  
>> to
>> Eucalyptus.
>> I was wondering which are the main difference between the two  
>> approaches.
>>
>> Is there someone with experience on both approaches?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> M
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>
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