Why OpenNebula?

A Leading Technology in Data Center Virtualization Management

OpenNebula focuses on Data Center virtualization by bringing all the rich functionality and integration capabilities required for the comprehensive and complete management of virtualized infrastructures. OpenNebula is platform agnostic with broad hypervisor support, allowing to leverage existing IT infrastructure, protecting your investments, and avoiding vendor lock-in.

OpenNebula is the most solid, powerful and flexible open-source alternative to proprietary virtualization management solutions like VMware's vCloud and vCenter for Xen, KVM and VMware clouds. Other open-source solutions mainly focus on public cloud features and do not realize the full potential of virtualization in the Data Center to enable a feature-rich private cloud. OpenNebula does not only bring an open-source implementation of the most common public cloud interfaces, but also the latest innovations in the management of virtualized data centers for the deployment of cutting edge on-premise IaaS clouds in your existing infrastructure.

  • Powerful and Innovative: Most advanced and innovative enterprise-class functionality for the management of virtualized data centers to build private, public and hybrid clouds
  • Infrastructure Agnostic: Fully platform independent with broad support for commodity and enterprise-grade hypervisor, storage and networking resources
  • Adaptable and Extensible: Open, flexible and extensible architecture, interfaces and components that fit into any existing data center and enable leverage existing IT infrastructure and system management products, protecting investments and avoiding vendor lock-in
  • Proven and Mature: Scalability, reliability, security and performance tested on very large-scale infrastructures consisting of thousands of cores, with many massive scalable production deployments
  • Interoperable: Expose standard and most common cloud APIs to leverage the ecosystems being built around OpenNebula, Amazon AWS, OGC OCCI…
  • Fully Open Source Cloud Software: OpenNebula is not a feature or performance limited edition of an Enterprise version. OpenNebula is truly open-source code, not open core, distributed under Apache license that is rigorously tested and matured through a vibrant community.

Community and Commercial Support

Besides the best-effort support provided by the OpenNebula community, C12G Labs offers commercial support and value-added services for OpenNebula.