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What do you like best about OpenNebula?

Very helpful platform to use for VM creation and works very smoothly

New users can get started very quickly

No formal training is required for new users

Saves lot of cost in terms of Hardware Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenNebula?

New features support and catch up to new technologies

Sometimes slowness is experienced by users

while accessing some GUI forms etc

But overall a great platform to work on Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenNebula solving and how is that benefiting you?

We can spawn multiple VM's at once , hence we need not to buy multiple hardware servers

Saves a lot of cost and Easy to delete/modify/upgrade the existing VM's Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OpenNebula Overview

What is OpenNebula?

OpenNebula Systems develops the OpenNebula open source cloud and edge computing platform, offering a cost-effective alternative to VMware. Trusted by over 5,000 organizations, it supports deployments from small setups to large-scale infrastructures with thousands of hosts across distributed data centers. Backed by a global community, OpenNebula Systems provides enterprise support and services to optimize cloud and edge environments. With offices in the U.S., Spain, Belgium, and the Czech Republic, it specializes in turning open source into enterprise-grade solutions.

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Open Cloud Management Platform, Developed for the Enterprise


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Year Founded
2010
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Burlington, Massachusetts
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5,978 Twitter followers
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48 employees on LinkedIn®

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Recent OpenNebula Reviews

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5.0 out of 5
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Its simplicity in understanding the nomenclature with regard to the integration of master and worker nodes, running of services, and mostly the mar...
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"With OneKE utility, we can configure & deploy highly available K8 clusters in OpenNebula platform"
OpenNebula platform helps us build & manage VM instances & Kubernetes clusters. It provisions a shared environment for both VMs and K8 clusters so ...
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Ravi C.
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What do you like best about OpenNebula?

OpenNebula platform helps us build & manage VM instances & Kubernetes clusters. It provisions a shared environment for both VMs and K8 clusters so that we can overview both workloads in a single pane of glass. It also manages the orchestration of front-end master nodes of the cluster & its infrastructure requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenNebula?

Its knowledge base requires focus since there are many complications while working with K8 clusters. It would be great to offer more details on its features & best practices so that we can pick up its platform quickly. Apart from this, we are good with services provided by the OpenNebula platform for VM deployments & cluster management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenNebula solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our cloud infrastructure comprises several workload clusters which are located in multiple regions. It's pretty challenging to manage them without having a centralized platform such as OpenNebula. In less than 5 minutes, we can build a Kubernetes cluster, integrate sophisticated storage and deploy them easily. Its OneKE is a powerful & robust utility dedicated to automating multi-cluster operations. It also effectively isolates our resource pools to provide an additional layer for enhancing cluster security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sudeep Narayan B.
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What do you like best about OpenNebula?

Its simplicity in understanding the nomenclature with regard to the integration of master and worker nodes, running of services, and mostly the marketplace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenNebula?

To the best of my knowledge, there is nothing to dislike; however, deployment documentation (as of 2017) could have been better for elastic or on-demand clouds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenNebula solving and how is that benefiting you?

OpenNebula service helped to have the below:

a) provisioning of different flavour OS templates along with individual software like CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows

b) Use the templates to deploy VMs

c) Sync with LDAP Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about OpenNebula?

its simplicty , Documentation for OpenNebula Support Subscription Private Components,Tools to build OpenNebula packages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenNebula?

its security mechanisms leaves a lot to be desired: requirement for a passwordless sudo account, CLI configuration stored as a plaintext Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenNebula:

work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenNebula solving and how is that benefiting you?

standing edge to edge in documentation for automation of retail outlets of indian oil and hpcl across india Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about OpenNebula?

Able to boot up VM from a template that IT has created in about 5 minutes. I am able to quickly monitor the status of systems and boot up or shut down them as needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenNebula?

Cannot save my favorite templates to a home screen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenNebula solving and how is that benefiting you?

Open Nebula allows our support and development teams to quickly boot up VM’s to replicate customer environments without having to work with dev ops or IT. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about OpenNebula?

It allows you to manage infrastructures in a fast and scalable way, you can also control, create virtual machines and you can monitor the services in the cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenNebula?

It is not widely used at present, lack of documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenNebula:

use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenNebula solving and how is that benefiting you?

server management, virtual machines, cloud monitoring Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about OpenNebula?

Reliable

Powerful

Open Source

Easy to setup

Nice UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenNebula?

Some what finicky operation

Works best with higher end equipment, especially networking

I need bigger servers! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenNebula:

Get it now, its amazing! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenNebula solving and how is that benefiting you?

Private virtualization cloud to automated and manage a highly virtualized environment. Makes controlling dozens of VMs much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about OpenNebula?

The great thing about OpenNebula is its simplicity. Comparing to other private IaaS solution that are open-sources (for instance OpenStack, CloudStack) it is much simpler to install and maintain. Similarly, due to its simply, plugin-based architecture developing a custom hypervisor driver was a breeze. The same applies to web console - it is clear, elegant and undoubtedly matches the latset UX trends. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenNebula?

Sadly, the above-mentioned simplicity of OpenNebula doesn't mean that it is an elegant product. It surely has a lot of rough edges. For instance, its security mechanisms leaves a lot to be desired: requirement for a passwordless sudo account, CLI configuration stored as a plaintext. Besides, we found out that there are some 'hacks' in platform's core engine just to support some specific technology stack that should be rather provided as a well-though plugin mechanism. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenNebula:

If you need a simple to use IaaS platform and have a small amount of compute nodes (i.e. hypervisors) to maintain pick OpenNebula. In more complex deployment you should probably consider more advanced but at the same time complex soltuions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenNebula solving and how is that benefiting you?

We tried to leverage OpenVZ containers as a hypervisor in a IaaS platform. We choose the lightweight virtualization as it is more promising in terms of resource usage and efficiency. It is more suited to needs of creating a Platform-as-a-Service solution on top of IaaS what was focus of our work. We picked OpenNebula as a IaaS platform of our choice because we found that its learning curve is much more tempting than in other IaaS platforms available (OpenStack, CloudStack). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about OpenNebula?

For me it's been the ease of use and reliability of the system. Installation and setup of our initial hosts were straight forward and then from there the ability to scale up across the infrastructure we created with such speed was definitely miles ahead of OpenStack (our first attempt at a private cloud) at the time of setup.

Our aim has been to have our own AWS type infrastructure alongside it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenNebula?

I think there's some work to do with managing configuration of underlying hosts. It would be nice to have a faster route to scaling up and provisioning interfaces.

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Recommendations to others considering OpenNebula:

If you want a straight forward access to a private cloud based IaaS then we have had very few issues scaling the VM and provision side of this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenNebula solving and how is that benefiting you?

Quick fire ability to scale our infrastructure as our application demands through automation.

We had a lot of spare hardware that has been put to good use, instead of gathering dust it's helping us use every ounce of spare CPU cycles where needed.

Less management through automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about OpenNebula?

Flexibility, extensibility, simplicity and clean-cut design fit for purpose. Easy to deploy and manage. Excellent community. Scales nicely for small to mid-range deployments (hundreds of hosts, thousands of virtual machines). Provides interfaces for beginners and advanced users. Can be used for data center management as well as private cloud deployments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenNebula?

Won't scale as well for very large deployments (thousands of hosts, tens of thousands of virtual machines). Rudimentary user management, ACLs and simplistic approach to authentication (not necessarily a problem, depending on the deployment environment). Misuses MySQL for document-centric data (XML) which impacts performance, data integrity and DB scalability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenNebula solving and how is that benefiting you?

Providing primarily HPC (High-performance computing) cloud services and prototyping environments for developers and testers. Framework also doubles as a tool for internal data center management. Excellent for environments requiring a lot of integration and customization as well as out-of-the-box deployments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.