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<div>Hi Derrick,</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Florian</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Von: </span>Derrick LIN <<a href="mailto:klin938@gmail.com">klin938@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Datum: </span>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:44:22 +1000<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">An: </span><<a href="mailto:users@lists.opennebula.org">users@lists.opennebula.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Betreff: </span>[one-users] Does OpenNebula work or replace VMware vCenter?<br>
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Hi guys,
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>I have been seeking a way to allow me to automate the VM deployment process and contextualize the Linux VMs.</div>
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<div>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:</div>
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<div>1) What's the position for OpenNebula in a VMware based platform that vCenter already exists? </div>
<div>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?</div>
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<div>I'd keen to hear from anyone who has the experience on this.</div>
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<div>Thanks in advance.</div>
<div>Derrick</div>
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