[one-users] Does OpenNebula work or replace VMware vCenter?

[florian.feldhaus at tu-dortmund.de]

Hi Derrick,

from my past experience I can say, that OpenNebula in the current version is not ready to replace VMware vCenter. But, with OpenNebula 3.0 many of the missing features are implemented and as far as I could test them, OpenNebula seems to be a good / cost efficient choice to replace vCenter. Integrating OpenNebula with vCenter and usage of ESX is possible, but from my point of view this is only valid as a migration path to replace it with a KVM or XEN infrastructure.

If you have a production setup where a downtime of your service costs a lot of money, then you're probably better off with vCenter and buying all their licenses. If you want to provide a cheap IaaS plattform, then OpenNebula 3.0 could be right for you. BTW: From a recent comparison of OpenNebula 3.0 and the current version of OpenStack I got the impression that OpenNebula will be better suitable for IaaS environments. Especially the Sunstone Webinterface has more potential than the OpenStack webinterface.

Cheers,
Florian

Von: Derrick LIN <klin938 at gmail.com<mailto:klin938 at gmail.com>>
Datum: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:44:22 +1000
An: <users at lists.opennebula.org<mailto:users at lists.opennebula.org>>
Betreff: [one-users] Does OpenNebula work or replace VMware vCenter?

Hi guys,

My institute is running a cloud platform which is VMware vSphere based with its Enterprise Plus license. We also have a vCenter server for managing the platform.

I have been seeking a way to allow me to automate the VM deployment process and contextualize the Linux VMs.

OpenNebula seems to be a solution. I have read through some documentations as well as the VMware Driver Addon guide. But I still not quite understand many basic aspects of OpenNebula, particularly:

1) What's the position for OpenNebula in a VMware based platform that vCenter already exists?
2) Our Enterprise Plus license gives us full features of the vSphere platform, work with the vCenter, does OpenNebula interact with those features as well?

I'd keen to hear from anyone who has the experience on this.

Thanks in advance.
Derrick
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