Ignacio M. Llorente

VMware hypervisors of the ESX family (3.x, 4.x and 5.0) are fully, out-of-the box supported by the latest versions of OpenNebula(3.0+). If you have a server farm based on any of the ESX versions, then you can make use of OpenNebula to better manage your physical (and virtual) resources in order to build a private cloud and provide virtualized environments. OpenNebula is the most powerful open-source alternative to VMware datacenter and cloud suite, delivering enterprise-class functionality, stability and scalability with broader platform support and integration capabilities. So, what can you do with OpenNebula to improve the experience managing your VMware hypervisors? A little taste in the following bullets: Manage multiple storage backends. You can have multiple storage sources (datastores) serving the same host, or you can group your hosts in clusters served by ... (more)

Advances in Clouds - Research in Future Cloud Computing

It has been more than two years since the European Commission published in January 2010 its pioneering report about the Future of Cloud Computing. A group of experts was established with the aim to evaluate the state-of-the-art and develop future research directions in cloud computing. Since then, there has been considerable advances in the field, developments have closed some gaps that were identified in this report, but more challenges have emerged. We were re-convened by the European Commission in 2011 in order to capture these changes and maintain a state-of-the-art view on c... (more)

OpenNebula 3.4 Cloud Platform Is Out

The OpenNebula project has just announced the availability of OpenNebula 3.4 (Wild Duck). OpenNebula 3.4 is the most feature-rich open-source alternative to VMware datacenter and cloud suite, delivering enterprise-class functionality, stability and scalability with broader platform support and integration capabilities for KVM, Xen and VMware hypervisors. The software brings countless valuable contributions by many members of our community, and specially from Research in Motion, Logica, Terradue 2.0, CloudWeavers, Clemson University, and Vilnius University. As main new feature, O... (more)

C12G Launches Enterprise Edition of OpenNebula 3.4 Cloud Manager

C12G Labs has just announced an update release of OpenNebulaPro, the enterprise edition ofOpenNebula. OpenNebula 3.4, released one month ago, features enhancements in several cloud subsystems, like support for multiple datastores, resource pools, elastic IPs in the Amazon API, improved web GUIs, and better support for hybrid clouds with Amazon EC2. Some of these improvements were contributed by several members of the OpenNebula community, such as Research in Motion, Logica, Terradue 2.0, CloudWeavers, Clemson University, and Vilnius University. OpenNebulaPro is used by corporat... (more)

OpenNebula Announces New Hyper-V Drivers

The OpenNebula Project has just announced the release, as a new plugin in the ecosystem, of the OpenNebula 3.2 drivers to build clouds on Microsoft Hyper-V. From the release in October 2011 of a first integration prototype, OpenNebula has worked with some of its users to improve the stability of the integration prototype and to incorporate more functionality. In February 2012, OpenNebula released a development version with enhanced performance and scalability thanks to its integration with technologies commonly available in Windows environments, like Windows Remote Management. Th... (more)