Based in its definition, the “Hybrid Cloud Computing” is a model which combines the use of multiple Cloud services across different deployment models, including combining the use of services of public cloud services private cloud outside or inside organization / institution.

Most companies and organizations have not been born in the “cloud”, a situation that often causes the cloud resources are to be connected to traditional systems or applications with some criticality and are usually located in their own premises. This type of architecture is the most common where the keys to their success pass take into account aspects such as integration capabilities, hyper-converged management, etc.

Cloud bursting is always welcome!

Today we are sharing exciting news about the expansion of the number of public clouds supported by OpenNebula to build hybrid cloud deployments. As a result of the collaboration between OpenNebula and CSUC, a new addon to support VCLOUD providers has been added to OpenNebula catalogue.

“With this addon, real hybrid architectures can use OpenNebula’s rich set of infrastructure management tools to manage cloud deployments across VCLOUD private, public and hosted cloud platforms.”

The driver is developed for Opennebula 5.x and VCLOUD 5.5 version and is released today to be available for testing. The integration has been carried out using the ruby_vcloud_sdk, which interacts with the vCloud Director API, enabling a complete control of the lifecycle of Virtual Machines in a transparent way within an OpenNebula cloud. Thanks to these new addon, private resources can be easily supplemented with resources from external providers to meet fluctuating demands.

https://github.com/OpenNebula/addon-vcloud-driver

Description

This addon gives Opennebula the posibility to manage resources in VMware vCloud infraestructures. It includes virtualization and monitoring drivers.

This driver is based on vCenter Driver and uses a modified version of ruby_vcloud_sdk.

Features

This addon has the following capabilities:

• Deploy, stop, shutdown, reboot, save, suspend, resume and delete VM’s in the Virtual Data Centers hosted in vCloud.
• Create, delete and revert snapshots of VM’s.
• Change RAM and CPU values of VM.
• It’s able to hot-attach and detach NICs to VM’s.
• Automatized customization of the VMs instanciated.
• Obtain monitoring information from the VDC, Datastore and VM’s.
• In this development version we manage vApps with one VMs inside (A VM in OpenNebula equals a vApp with one VM in vCloud).
• Each Virtual Data Center (VDC) in vCloud is managed as a Host in OpenNebula.
• Import networks, hosts, templates and datastores hosted in vCloud using onevcloud script.

https://github.com/OpenNebula/addon-vcloud-driver

Need more information? You are welcome to use the OpenNebula community instruments to ask around (for instance, the forums tool is a good place to pose your questions) or reserve a seat to see details inside the next Open Cloud Free session in Barcelona (24/10 14:00h) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-cloud-free-session-inside-opennebulaconf-tickets-27753771277

As always, we value your feedback and contributions to this new feature!

Barcelona UserGroup Team –  www.cloudadmins.org