Top Stories by Ignacio M. Llorente
The OpenNebula project has just announced the availability of the stable
release of OpenNebula 3.2. This release of OpenNebula features important
improvements in security, networking and user management, and fully
integrates C12G addons, previously only available for OpenNebulaPro
customers.
As main new features, OpenNebula 3.2 incorporates an easily-customizable
self-service portal for end-users that greatly simplifies VM provisioning in
the data center. This new update of OpenNebula also brings the highest levels
of flexibility, stability, scalability and functionality for VMware-based
data centers and clouds in the open-source domain. OpenNebula 3.2 provides an
open management platform that compares to vCenter and vCloud, that can
moreover be adapted to fit into your environment.
Notable improvements include, but are not limited to:
VMware, out-of-the-box suppo... (more)
The OpenNebula project has just announced that its OpenNebula Cloud has been
updated o 3.2 and now offers a virtual computing environment accessible
through two different remote cloud interfaces, OCCI and EC2, and two
different web interfaces, Sunstone for cloud administrators and the new
SelfService for cloud consumers. These mechanisms access the same
infrastructure, i.e. resources created by any of the mentioned methods will
be instantly available on the others. For instance, you can create a VM with
the OCCI interface, monitor it with the EC2 interface, and shut it down
u... (more)
A new episode of the screencast series is now available at the
OpenNebula YouTube Channel.
This screencast, second part of the oZones screencast, shows how to manage
and use Virtual Data Centers, both with the oZones CLI and with the oZones
web-based interface, to isolate virtual infrastructure environments. It
shows how to create a VDC by assigning a group of users to a group of
physical resources and by granting one of the users, the VDC administrator,
with privileges to manage all virtual resources in the VDC. The users in the
VDC, including the VDC administrator, only see th... (more)
"Key Challenges in Cloud Computing to Enable Future Internet of Things" is
the title of the talk about future Internet of Things that I gave today
January 19th at The 4th EU-Japan Symposium on New Generation Networks and
Future Internet. The talk provides an architectural view of Internet of
Things from the perspective of cloud computing, defines its main requirements
for the underlying processing infrastructure, and describes the challenges in
cloud computing that should be addressed to meet these requirements. The talk
concludes with the description of the instruments that shou... (more)
The OpenNebula Project has just announced that the OpenNebula add-ons will
be released under Apache license and incorporated into the main distribution
of OpenNebula. The LDAP authentication, the accounting toolset and the
VMWare support will be included in subsequent OpenNebula releases without
needing to download any additional component. OpenNebula 3.2 support for
VMware will also include the following new features that have been developed
by C12G Labs for its customers and partners:
Support for VMware's vMotion to allow live migration of VMs between VMware
hosts, enabling l... (more)