What is OpenNebula?
OpenNebula is an open-source cloud computing toolkit for managing heterogeneous distributed data center infrastructures. It provides a unified frontend to manage virtualized compute, storage, and network resources. Key capabilities include:
- Provisioning and management of virtual machines on distributed infrastructures like clusters, grids, and cloud environments
- Virtual machine image management, including upload, transfer, clone, import/export, and snapshot functions
- Virtual network management, including assignment of virtual machines to different virtual networks, addressing, bridging to physical networks, and security groups
- Monitoring and accounting of actual resource consumption at the virtual machine, user, group or cloud level, enabling showback and chargeback models
- Support for hybrid cloud environments through interfaces with public clouds like AWS, Azure and OpenStack
- Federation across multiple data centers for pooling and sharing of resources
- Multi-tenancy through user, group and role based access control mechanisms
- Command line tools, GUI and API for integration with third party management tools
Overall, OpenNebula provides a flexible platform for managing enterprise clouds and virtualized data centers with capabilities tailored for production environments.