[one-users] Why to use Opennebula?

[Carlos Martín Sánchez]

Hi,

In our web you can read about the generic benefits of a cloud management
tool [1], the main advantages of OpenNebula [2], and a list of low-level
features [3] for the upcomming 3.0 release (currently you can test the beta
release [4]).

Is it worth to install OpenNebula? I'd say it depends on your scenario.
OpenNebula will prove useful if you need to manage more than one hypervisor,
avoiding vendor lock-in. Another big benefit is that being fully
open-source, you will be able to customize and tweak every small aspect of
you cloud.

Regards.

[1] http://opennebula.org/about:technology#what_are_its_benefits
[2] http://opennebula.org/about:why
[3] http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel3.0:features
[4] http://opennebula.org/software:software

--
Carlos Martín, MSc
Project Major Contributor
OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing
www.OpenNebula.org <http://www.opennebula.org/> | cmartin at opennebula.org


2011/8/29 Juan José Fuentes <Juanjose.Fuentes at sigmaaie.org>

> Thank you Steffen for your answer.
>
> As I said, the prime intention is to construct a private cloud to provide
> SaaS to our clients. C12G will be necessary if we carry on the project , but
> just in its final phase.
>
> I thought using Opennebula I could, i.e. create a virtual machine that uses
> RAM from 2 physical hosts, but as far as I read that's not possible.
>
> Of course, the first step will be to create the private cloud in a test
> environment and perform a lot of tests before provide the SaaS to our
> clients. But what I was wondering is what are the main features of
> Opennebula that will be helpful in that process. One of them could be the
> centralitation of the virtual machines management, but I think that could be
> achive also with other products like Xen, which I've never used just read
> some features...
>
>  I mean that introducing Opennebula in our architecture involves complicate
> it, so it must offer some advantatges that make it worth, and are those
> advantages that I'm trying to find out.
>
> In other words, what's the advantage of using Opennebula in a vmware or xen
> environment when these products have their own management consoles...? How
> could I justify to my boss the investment, in hours and support (c12g), to
> use Opennebula?
>
> Surely I ask these questions because I'm not sure what is or what it
> involves having a private cloud...
>
> Thank you,
>
> Juan José Fuentes
> Responsable de Sistemas
> Telf +34 902 550 733
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Steffen Neumann [mailto:sneumann at ipb-halle.de]
> Enviado el: lunes, 29 de agosto de 2011 11:14
> Para: Juan José Fuentes
> CC: users
> Asunto: Re: [one-users] Why to use Opennebula?
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 07:52 +0000, Juan José Fuentes wrote:
> > I'm back from holidays and I don't remember
> ?
>
> > why I should use Opennebula instead of Xen (that it also allows live
> migration) or someother products...
> What for ? Unless you lay out the use case, the answers
> can only point into the blue!
>
> > I don't know if this is the appropiate forum
> basically yes.
>
> > excuse me if it isn't, but actually I just want to justify to my boss the
> use of this product.
> > Also I want to ask to the community if someone is using Opennebula in
> production environments.
> > We are thinking about providing our products as SaaS,
> > and one way could be creating our own private cloud, I was wondering if
> Opennebula could meet those needs.
> Depending on your needs, you might consider
> the professional C12G support. On our smallish
> cluster for research related simulations we don't need it,
> but if some business relies on it, you might be better off
> with some professionals for support cases.
>
> Yours,
> Steffen
>
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