Keith, I cannot agree with you more. There is NO virtual infrastructure manager more hackable than OpenNebula!
Shi On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Keith Hudgins <ke...@cloudscaling.com>wrote: > Nova (the part of OpenStack that compares with OpenNebula) is *very* > immature at the moment. It's a brand-spanking new project only a few months > old, and doesn't really do much at the moment. In the long run, it may > compare favorably with OpenNebula, but it will be at least 6 months before > Nova begins to catch up. I know a couple of people working on Nova, and > they're VERY good developers, so I have no doubt it will be a very nice > piece of software in the future. If you want to put it into production > today... don't. It's pre-alpha and not even close to feature-complete. You > can launch VMs from Nova, but not much more than that. There's currently not > any solid multi-user support, for example. It's worth tinkering with, for > sure, but not for production. > > OpenNebula is mature, proven, and works pretty well. It's not as slick as > some of the commercial products available, but it's much more hackable > (seriously - I've said it before and it's still true - there is NO virtual > infrastructure manager more hackable than OpenNebula), and the community > ecosystem is complex and useful. From the ecosystem you can install a > graphical interface, alternate schedulers, and many install automation > tools. > > If you want to look at more mature software to compare, Cloudstack (very > slick, use their reference architecture until you understand how the pieces > fall together), Eucalyptus (good luck! Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud is still the > only reliable, simple way to get this going), Ganeti (very interesting, DRBD > backing store, not intended for large scale though) are good comparison > examples to test. None of them work with the range of hypervisors or APIs > that OpenNebula does, but they may scratch a particular itch you have. > > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Christophe Hamerling - Petals Link < > christophe.hamerl...@petalslink.com> wrote: > >> Dear Ignacio, >> >> As an active open source developer and supporter I have no doubt about the >> quality and maturity of OpenNebula. >> I was just wondering if any user as also experience with OpenStack and can >> say more about why they switched from OpenStack to OpenNebula (and I really >> hope the switch is this one). >> BTW, this will be probably a good point to list somewhere the OpenNebula >> 'killer' features and why one should use OpenNebula instead of OpenStack. >> It is something I wanted to ask last week at OW2 Conference but I think it >> is quite complicated when both projects have representatives there... ;) >> >> Christophe >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Ignacio M. Llorente < >> llore...@dacya.ucm.es> wrote: >> >>> Dear Christophe, >>> >>> We prepared a post [1] with a description of our position as >>> open-source project when OpenStack was announced in July. From a more >>> technical point of view, OpenNebula is a mature technology (we started >>> the development five years ago and did our first release almost three >>> years ago) that is used to manage very large scale clouds by some of >>> the world's leading telecom operators, hosting providers and compute >>> centers of leading research institutions. In our web site [2] we >>> provide details about the features for private, public and hybrid >>> cloud management, integration and production environments. We invite >>> you to compare these features with those provided by OpenStack and >>> evaluate which technology fits your requirements. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> >>> [1] http://blog.opennebula.org/?p=683 >>> [2] >>> http://www.opennebula.org/_media/documentation:opennebula_2.0_features_rev20101026.pdf >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Christophe Hamerling - Petals Link >>> <christophe.hamerl...@petalslink.com> wrote: >>> > Hi all, >>> > I can find some comparisons between OpenNebula and Eucalyptus but >>> nothing >>> > between OpenNebula and OpenStack. Both looks quite close in term of >>> feature >>> > (from a light level view) but can someone give me details? >>> > Thanks a lot, >>> > Christophe >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Christophe Hamerling >>> > R&D Engineer & Project Leader >>> > Petals Link - SOA open-source company >>> > OW2 PEtALS SOA Suite Comitter >>> > Skype : christophe.hamerling >>> > Jabber : chamerl...@jabber.org >>> > Blog : http://chamerling.org >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Users mailing list >>> > Users@lists.opennebula.org >>> > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org >>> > >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Ignacio M. Llorente, Full Professor (Catedratico): >>> http://dsa-research.org/llorente >>> DSA Research Group: web http://dsa-research.org and blog >>> http://blog.dsa-research.org >>> OpenNebula Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing: >>> http://www.OpenNebula.org >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Christophe Hamerling >> R&D Engineer & Project Leader >> Petals Link - SOA open-source company >> OW2 PEtALS SOA Suite Comitter >> Skype : christophe.hamerling >> Jabber : chamerl...@jabber.org >> Blog : http://chamerling.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users@lists.opennebula.org >> http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.opennebula.org > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org > > -- Shi Jin, Ph.D.
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