We want to let you know about what we are up to with the main news from the last month regarding the OpenNebula project, including what you can expect in the following months.

Technology

The OpenNebula Team is working full steam ahead towards the 4.10 version, in order to improve features launched in Lemon Slice and include some new ones of its own.

Probably the most important novelty would be complete integration with VMware vCenter. OpenNebula 4.10 will be able to interact with a farm of ESX servers without contacting them individually, but rather through their associated vCenter. This has been requested many times, specially from corporate institutions where security and simplicity of management is a must have. This feature is still on the works, but it already have some killer characteristics like clusters and VM template automatic import from an existing vCenter set up with no downtime!

Other aspects we are polishing is the network subsystem, with security improvements made to reservations and VNETs and the authorization subsystem -it will be possible to create short lived tokens to login into OpenNebula-. We would like to thank BlackBerry for their support funding these features. Moreover, a myriad of bugs are being addressed to make the upcoming 4.10 release rock solid. You can check the list of targeted bugs and desired features tackled for OpenNebula 4.10 in the development portal.

This last month the OpenNebula Team released a new version of the AppMarket, compatible with OpenNebula 4.8 that also solves issues reported by the community.

Community

More than 2,000 users took part of the project’s last survey. Thanks to all the people that provided this valuable feedback, this information is key to keep improving your favourite CMP.

The survey shows some interesting facts, for instance that OpenNebula has been downloaded more than 200,000 times from the project site. Also, that most of the installations are to build private clouds as well as (and we take huge pride in this), more than half are used to run production workloads. We are really happy with so many people trusting their sensitive data and computations to OpenNebula! There are lots of good information about how the OpenNebula cloud world is shaped, take a look and let us know if you have any hindsights or you want to comment about it.

Autumn is here, and it shows as more and more people stays indoors and occasionally praise OpenNebula. Also, they go out and talk about integrations, like for instance this talk about OpenNebula and Puppet, killer combination. Our friend Carlo Daffara keeps pushing OpenNebula to its limits, and we are extremely grateful for that, as well as for the comparison with other CMPs.

Are you Perl savvy? Check out this perl library to access OpenNebula RPC interface!

Outreach

This year’s OpenNebula Conference, to be held in Berlin 2-4 of December, 2014 is approaching fast. The final agenda is now available at the conference page. This years will offer the chance to learn how folks from PuppetLabs, E-Post, Deloitte and many other companies are using OpenNebula. Moreover, check out the venue for the evening event, lush isn’t it?. If you want to repeat or find out how it is for yourself, save the date and register!.

Moreover, if you are interested in reaching a wide cloud audience, check the sponsorship opportunities for the OpenNebula Conference 2014.

You may be interested in how the jointly OpenNebula TechDay held last month went in Timisoara, Romania, a great success with a great audience!.

Our project director went to give a talk on OpenNebula and it’s benefits for SMEs on Extremadura, a region of Spain traditionally very friendly towards open source. We would like to thank CENATIC for inviting us!

We have upcoming TechDays in future months, if you are interested in OpenNebula you can check the project page. The next TechDay would be held in beautiful Santiago de Compostela, with local government and scientific computer science institution giving talks about their use of OpenNebula.

Remember that you can see slides and resources from past events in our Events page. We have also created a Slideshare account where you can see the slides from some of our recent presentations.