Development version of OpenNebula 3.2. The material on this page needs to be reviewed for completeness and accuracy.
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Powerful User Security Management
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Authorization framework with
fine-grained ACLs that allows multiple-role support for different types of users and administrators, delegated control to authorized users, secure isolated multi-tenant environments, and easy resource (VM template, VM image, VM instance, virtual network and host) sharing
Advanced Multi-tenancy with Group Management
On-demand Provision of Virtual Data Centers
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Virtual Data Centers (VDC) is a fully-isolated virtual infrastructure environment where a group of users, under the control of the VDC administrator, can create and manage compute, storage and networking capacity
Advanced multi-tenancy with complete functionality for management of
VDCs: create, delete, show…
Advanced Control and Monitoring of Virtual Infrastructure
Virtual Machine Configuration
Advanced Control and Monitoring of Physical Infrastructure
Hypervisor agnostic
Virtualization Subsystem with broad hypervisor support (
Xen,
KVM and
VMware), centralized management of environments with multiple hypervisors, and support for multiple hypervisors within the same physical box
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Optional integration with datacenter monitoring tools like
Ganglia
Distributed Resource Optimization
Powerful and flexible
requirement/rank matchmaker scheduler providing automatic initial VM placement for the definition of workload and resource-aware allocation policies such as packing, striping, load-aware, affinity-aware…
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Centralized Management of Multiple Zones
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Complete functionality for management of
zones: create, delete, show, list…
High Availability
Hybrid Cloud Computing and Cloudbursting
Cloud Interfaces
Rich Operation Interfaces and User Self-Service Portal
Unix-like Command Line Interface to manage all resources: users, VM images, VM templates, VM instances, virtual networks, zones, VDCs, physical hosts, accounting, authentication, authorization…
Easy-to-use Sunstone Graphical Interface providing usage graphics and statistics with cloudwatch-like functionality, VNC support, different system views for different roles, catalog access, multiple-zone management…
Deployment Options
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Detailed log files for the different components that maintain a record of significant changes
Extension and Integration
Reliability, Efficiency and Massive Scalability
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Proven on large scale infrastructures consisting of tens of thousands of cores and VMs
Highly scalable database back-end with support for
MySQL and SQLite
Virtualization drivers adjusted for maximum scalability
Very efficient core developed in C++ language