Hi, In our web you can read about the generic benefits of a cloud management tool [1], the main advantages of OpenNebula [2], and a list of low-level features [3] for the upcomming 3.0 release (currently you can test the beta release [4]).
Is it worth to install OpenNebula? I'd say it depends on your scenario. OpenNebula will prove useful if you need to manage more than one hypervisor, avoiding vendor lock-in. Another big benefit is that being fully open-source, you will be able to customize and tweak every small aspect of you cloud. Regards. [1] http://opennebula.org/about:technology#what_are_its_benefits [2] http://opennebula.org/about:why [3] http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel3.0:features [4] http://opennebula.org/software:software -- Carlos Martín, MSc Project Major Contributor OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing www.OpenNebula.org <http://www.opennebula.org/> | [email protected] 2011/8/29 Juan José Fuentes <[email protected]> > Thank you Steffen for your answer. > > As I said, the prime intention is to construct a private cloud to provide > SaaS to our clients. C12G will be necessary if we carry on the project , but > just in its final phase. > > I thought using Opennebula I could, i.e. create a virtual machine that uses > RAM from 2 physical hosts, but as far as I read that's not possible. > > Of course, the first step will be to create the private cloud in a test > environment and perform a lot of tests before provide the SaaS to our > clients. But what I was wondering is what are the main features of > Opennebula that will be helpful in that process. One of them could be the > centralitation of the virtual machines management, but I think that could be > achive also with other products like Xen, which I've never used just read > some features... > > I mean that introducing Opennebula in our architecture involves complicate > it, so it must offer some advantatges that make it worth, and are those > advantages that I'm trying to find out. > > In other words, what's the advantage of using Opennebula in a vmware or xen > environment when these products have their own management consoles...? How > could I justify to my boss the investment, in hours and support (c12g), to > use Opennebula? > > Surely I ask these questions because I'm not sure what is or what it > involves having a private cloud... > > Thank you, > > Juan José Fuentes > Responsable de Sistemas > Telf +34 902 550 733 > > -----Mensaje original----- > De: Steffen Neumann [mailto:[email protected]] > Enviado el: lunes, 29 de agosto de 2011 11:14 > Para: Juan José Fuentes > CC: users > Asunto: Re: [one-users] Why to use Opennebula? > > Hi, > > On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 07:52 +0000, Juan José Fuentes wrote: > > I'm back from holidays and I don't remember > ? > > > why I should use Opennebula instead of Xen (that it also allows live > migration) or someother products... > What for ? Unless you lay out the use case, the answers > can only point into the blue! > > > I don't know if this is the appropiate forum > basically yes. > > > excuse me if it isn't, but actually I just want to justify to my boss the > use of this product. > > Also I want to ask to the community if someone is using Opennebula in > production environments. > > We are thinking about providing our products as SaaS, > > and one way could be creating our own private cloud, I was wondering if > Opennebula could meet those needs. > Depending on your needs, you might consider > the professional C12G support. On our smallish > cluster for research related simulations we don't need it, > but if some business relies on it, you might be better off > with some professionals for support cases. > > Yours, > Steffen > > -- > IPB Halle AG Massenspektrometrie & Bioinformatik > Dr. Steffen Neumann http://www.IPB-Halle.DE > Weinberg 3 http://msbi.bic-gh.de > 06120 Halle Tel. +49 (0) 345 5582 - 1470 > +49 (0) 345 5582 - 0 > sneumann(at)IPB-Halle.DE Fax. +49 (0) 345 5582 - 1409 > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org >
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