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OpenNebula[edit]
| Developer(s) | Distributed Systems Architecture Group at Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 1.0
/ 07/24/2008 |
| Operating system | Linux, and other Unix-like. |
| Type | Virtual Infrastructure Manager |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Website | http://opennebula.org |
OpenNebula is an OpenSource Virtual Infrastructure Manager with capabilities to administrate a pool of Xen or KVM enabled physical nodes, useful to create a Computing Cloud. This project is part of the Reservoir Project[1] (Resources and Services Virtualization without Barriers), a Seventh Framework Programme initiative to explore the deployment and management of IT services across different administrative domains, IT platforms and geographies.
Features[edit]
- On-demand provision of Virtual machines to meet the demands of the service end-users.
- Balance of workload to improve efficiency and utilization.
- Server consolidation to a reduced number of physical systems, therefore reducing space, administration effort, power and cooling requirements or supporting the shutdown of systems without interfering workload.
- Dynamic resizing of the physical infrastructure by adding new hosts.
- Dynamic cluster partitioning to execute different services.
- Support for heterogeneous workloads with multiple (even conflicting) software requirements, allowing the execution of software with strict requirements as jobs that will only run with a specific version of a library or legacy application execution.
- Centralized Management. A single access point to manage a pool of VMs and physical resources.
- Command line interface similar to actual Job Scheduler systems.
- XML-RPC API to interact with the system.
Future development[edit]
- New drivers to interact with other hypervisor technologies (VMware).
- Scheduling algorithms to optimize physical resources utilization, power consumption and advanced allocation of resources.
- Failure tolerance.
- Transfer support for remote image repositories.
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Reservoir Project web page