[one-users] OpenNebula 2.0 is Out for Testing!

[Ruben S. Montero]

Today, the OpenNebula team has released the first beta version of what
is to become OpenNebula 2.0 next September. OpenNebula 2.0 Beta 1 is
targeted at testers and users that would like to peep at what’s coming
to their clouds!. OpenNebula 2.0 beta includes a significant amount of
changes and new features in many areas, bringing the most flexible,
scalable and feature rich Cloud Toolkit to the Free Software
community. OpenNebula 2.0 is the result of a close collaboration with
our user community to address their scalability, flexibility and
security requirements in large-scale production systems.

This new release will break compatibility with OpenNebula 1.4 (at DB
and API levels), therefore we’ve decided to follow a larger release
cycle to make a smooth transition period, and also to stabilize API’s
and internal data models for the new components.

WHAT IS NEW IN OPENNEBULA 2.0 BETA 1
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* Image Repository. The Image Repository allows users to easily
specify disk images from a catalog without worrying about low-level
disk configuration attributes or block device mapping.

* MySQL support. OpenNebula can work now with MySQL or Sqlite DBs backends.

* Scalability Improvements. Several components of OpenNebula have been
tuned to work with tens of thousands of VMs, including the redesign of
the scheduler and adjustments to the monitoring modules.

 * Cluster support. Physical hosts can now be grouped in logical
clusters, so after a cluster is defined it can be then used to set the
placement of a VM.

  * Authorization & Authentication Drivers. The authorization and
authentication processes in OpenNebula have been totally redesigned.
Now they can be handled natively by the OpenNebula core or by an
external component that can be integrated with any A&A system or user
maps (e.g. LDAP, Kerberos…).

  * Virtual Networking Improvements. OpenNebula 2.0 lets you define
generic attributes associated to a a Virtual Network (e.g. gateway,
dns servers…) that can then be included in the context of a VM.
Additionally Virtual Networks can now be defined as public, and thus
shared among multiple users.

  * Improved EC2 support. The EC2 Query server can now be used with
the EC2 ecosystem, supported third party applications include
ElasticFox or EucaTools.

  * Java Bindings for the OpenNebula Cloud API (OCA) OpenNebula 2.0
includes JAVA bindings that wraps the XML-RPC interface methods
exposed by the core.

RELEVANT LINKS
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[1] Download OpenNebula 2.0 Beta1! : http://www.opennebula.org/software:software
[2] Release Notes: http://www.opennebula.org/software:rnotes:rn-rel2.0b1
[3] OpenNebula 2.0 Feature List:
http://www.opennebula.org/documentation:features
[4] Documentation for OpenNebula 2.0:
http://www.opennebula.org/documentation:rel2.0

The OpenNebula Team....