Dear OpenNebula users, OpenNebula 4.6 is slowly cooking, getting ready to get out of the oven and being spun around the certification carrousel. We've created a screencast [1] to show on of the most interesting features that will be available in the next, shiny new release: the ability to manage Virtual Data Centers natively in OpenNebula, via Sunstone or the CLI.
First, let's define some concepts. In OpenNebula, a Group (of users) is the authorization boundary. Authorization comes using ACLs built in OpenNebula. ACLs model can be used to control who can manage the Group (that is, the Group admin) and who can deploy virtual machines. A Group can be seen as business unit if you are considering it as private cloud and complete new company if it is public cloud. You can think Human Resources, Marketing and Sales as business units represented by Groups in OpenNebula. Moreover, a Resource Provider is a OpenNebula Cluster of infrastructure resources (aggregation of physical hosts, virtual networks and datastores). Combining the two above, OpenNebula can handle Virtual Data Centers (vDCs). vDCs are containers for the execution of virtual machines and a way of hiding physical resources from Group members. A Group is simply a boundary, you need to populate resources within the Group which can be consumed by the users of the Group. These resources are obtained from Resource Providers, ending up with the creation of a vDC by combining a Group and one or more Resource Providers. These Resource Providers can reside in other other datacenters, thus achieving a DC federation. But this a story for another screencast ;) This new feature is funded by Produban in the context of the Fund a Feature Program. For other interesting screencasts, please take a look to the screencasts page [3]. Enjoy the video, The OpenNebula Team [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18qHP_S2dwg [2] http://www.produban.com/ [3] http://opennebula.org/documentation/screencasts/ -- OpenNebula - Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple -- Constantino Vázquez Blanco, PhD, MSc Senior Infrastructure Architect at C12G Labs www.c12g.com | @C12G | es.linkedin.com/in/tinova -- Confidentiality Warning: The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying documents, unless otherwise expressly indicated, is confidential and privileged, and is intended solely for the person and/or entity to whom it is addressed (i.e. those identified in the "To" and "cc" box). They are the property of C12G Labs S.L.. Unauthorized distribution, review, use, disclosure, or copying of this communication, or any part thereof, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail at [email protected] and delete the e-mail and attachments and any copy from your system. C12G thanks you for your cooperation. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org
