OpenNebula 3.2 is the most feature-rich enterprise-class open-source software for comprehensive management of virtualized data centers based on Xen, KVM and VMware.
The OpenNebula Project is proud to announce the release of a new stable version of its widely deployed open-source management platform for enterprise data center virtualization. OpenNebula 3.2 is the first stable distribution produced by OpenNebula’s new release cycle aimed at faster delivery of new features and innovations to the community, based on their requirements and feedback, while also increasing technical quality.
“The most recent requirements of organizations building large scale production environments have been the driving force behind all our development and innovation efforts in OpenNebula 3.2”, said Ignacio M. Llorente, Director of the OpenNebula Project. “Most of these organzations are using OpenNebula as an enterprise-ready open-source alternative to proprietary cloud solutions”.
OpenNebula 3.2 brings important benefits to cloud providers with a new easily-customizable self-service portal for cloud consumers, and builders with full support for VMware that now includes live migration, advanced contextualization and image management. The new release additionally includes important enhancements in networking and security.
“This new update of OpenNebula brings the highest levels of flexibility, stability, scalability and functionality for VMware-based data centers and clouds in the open-source domain”, said Ruben S. Montero, Chief Architect of the OpenNebula Project. “While avoiding vendor lock-in, OpenNebula 3.2 provides an open management platform that compares to vCenter and vCloud, that can moreover be adapted to fit into your environment”.
C12G Labs, the company behind the open-source project, delivers a commercial distribution of OpenNebula for business, government, or other organizations looking for a hardened, certified, supported cloud platform. OpenNebulaPro combines the rapid innovation of open-source with the stability and long-term production support of commercial software.
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The OpenNebula project announces the general availability of the first beta release of OpenNebula 3.2. This is the second release of the OpenNebula’s new development cycle. With this release we start the process of integrating C12G addons-contributions into OpenNebula main distribution, hence the VMware drivers are not fully functional on this beta. Clouds using VMware hypervisor are advised not to update.
With this Beta release, the master branch of the OpenNebula repository is in a feature-freeze mode and the OpenNebula developers concentrate on fixing bugs and smoothing rough edges in the software.
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OpenNebula 3.0 features the latest innovations in cloud computing for the deployment of cutting-edge enterprise-ready on-premise IaaS clouds.
The OpenNebula Project Project is proud to announce the third major release of its widely deployed OpenNebula Toolkit, a fully open-source enterprise-grade cloud computing tool for the complete and comprehensive management of clouds and virtualized data centers. OpenNebula 3.0 delivers availability, reliability, scalability, security and efficiency with a focus on allowing data centers to provide cloud services by leveraging their existing IT assets, instead of building a new system from the ground up, thus protecting existing investments and avoiding vendor lock-in.
Most of the new innovative features have been developed to fulfill the needs of leading IT organizations running production environments. OpenNebula is helping many organizations make the transition toward the next generation of cloud infrastructures by supporting multiple fully-isolated virtual data centers, advanced multi-tenancy with fine-grained access control, and multiple zones potentially hosted in different geographical locations.
This new release also brings important benefits to cloud users and administrators with a greatly improved SunStone GUI that provides easy access to all the new features in 3.0 and a new oZones GUI to manage zones and virtual data centers. Other features included in this release include new authentication methods with usage quotas, a VM template repository, a new monitoring and accounting service, and a new network subsystem with support for Open vSwitch and 802.1Q tagging.
“This new version has matured thanks to our large user base and the expertise gained since we released the first version of OpenNebula more than three years ago”, said Ignacio M. Llorente, Director of the OpenNebula Project. “We really appreciate the valuable support, software contributions, and feedback from our active and engaged community”.
With more than 5,000 downloads per month, OpenNebula is being used by thousands of organizations to build large-scale production clouds.
“The third major release of OpenNebula brings the latest innovations in cloud computing. There is no cloud manager offering similar levels of flexibility, performance, control, and availability” said Ruben S. Montero, Chief Architect of the OpenNebula open-source project.
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The OpenNebula project is pleased to announce the availability of OpenNebula 3.0 Beta2 (2.9.85), the second preview of the upcoming OpenNebula 3 toolkit. OpenNebula 3 introduces many new components and features for cloud management. With this release, the code base of OpenNebula 3 is feature freeze and the team will concentrate its efforts on polishing and bug fixing.
The release cycle of OpenNebula 3.0 is being a bit larger than previous ones as expected. However the source tree is stabilizing fast, you should expect a final release at the end of the month. Please note that OpenNebula 3.0 Beta 2 is not suitable for production environments. We recommend those currently running 3.0 Beta, released last July, to upgrade.
The OpenNebula team wants also to thank all the feedback received for the previous beta release. Keep testing!
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