OpenNebula 7.4 “Helix”
Built to deliver operational excellence and intelligent automation for complex cloud and AI workloads, with a modern interface designed for simplicity and scale.
The New Standard for Sovereign Cloud and AI Infrastructure
Infrastructure management has changed. Cloud platforms are now expected to support large, dynamic, and performance-intensive AI workloads, without becoming harder to operate.
OpenNebula 7.4 “Helix” sets a new standard with a fully reimagined user experience, deeper hardware integration, and targeted improvements across automation, networking, storage, and workload management—all designed to simplify operations, improve performance, and strengthen support for sovereign AI and HPC environments.
Deployment Use Cases
VMware Migration
OpenNebula 7.4 helps you safely migrate from VMware with greater control and confidence, while building a more flexible, future-proof infrastructure free from vendor lock-in.
AI Factories
7.4 simplifies AI infrastructure management with a unified control plane, strong multi-tenancy, and automation to run GPU workloads efficiently, securely, and at scale.
Telco Edge Cloud
OpenNebula 7.4 enables operators and service providers to run distributed infrastructure with low-latency performance, strong isolation, and centralized control.
Hybrid Multi-Cloud
7.4 delivers unified management across on-premises, cloud, and edge resources, helping prevent fragmented operations through automation and portability.
Key Features and Capabilities
Discover OpenNebula 7.4—an open, high-performance platform built to simplify infrastructure management, maximize AI investments, and deliver strong multi-tenant operations and control.
Modernized Interface
Simplify infrastructure management with a fully redesigned Sunstone GUI that brings clarity and ease of use.
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- Refined Visual System & Navigation with a cleaner layout, updated colors, scalable typography, and more intuitive settings.
- Item Exploration via Side Drawer to quickly inspect VMs, hosts, and virtual networks.
- Richer Resource Visualization to see key details at a glance.
- FSaaS (VirtioFS) Support in GUI to manage shared storage more easily and attach disks directly in Sunstone.
Infrastructure Integrations
Seamlessly integrate AI Factory infrastructure and accelerators with simplified provisioning and lifecycle management.
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- AI Factory Extension First version of automated AI Factory-scale Bare Metal as a Service (OneMetal) to provide native integration with NVIDIA Infrastructure Controller (NICo), automated bare-metal provisioning, and seamless orchestration for GPU-intensive environments.
- Axelera AI Accelerator Integration for managing the lifecycle of Axelera AI accelerators, enabling allocation to virtual machines for AI inference and edge AI workloads.
High-Performance Networking & Multi-Tenancy
Enable secure, scalable networking that reduces complexity while maximizing workload performance.
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- VLAN Group-Level Authorization to enable tenant-level VLAN delegation and secure virtual network provisioning.
- Open vSwitch with Switchdev Mode for hardware offload support on SR-IOV-capable PCI interfaces, delivering maximum network performance for demanding workloads.
- KVM Dummy Interfaces & Guest Agent Monitoring to support guest NICs outside OpenNebula Virtual Networks and improve guest monitoring with OS/architecture filtering and network details.
Advanced Backup & Storage Capabilities
Reduce backup storage overhead and streamline virtual disk protection with more efficient incremental access.
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- Expanded Backups via OpenNebula Backup Exporter (OneBEX) to simplify Veeam integration, reduce storage requirements, and enable direct incremental access to virtual disk changes for qcow2 and LVM-based disks.
- Selective Disk Backups for selecting specific VM disks in Backup Jobs instead of the entire VM, with the option to restore them individually.
Operating System & Appliance Updates
Support modern AI infrastructure with the compatibility, performance, and reliability it demands.
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- Companion ReleaseOpenNebula Apps (OneApps) 7.4.0 to deliver native AArch64 support for the OneKS service appliance and Alpine 3.24 support across all appliances.
- Ubuntu 26.04 Support for production-ready packages fully compatible with Ubuntu 26.04.
- Enhanced Slurm Appliance to easily deploy AI and HPC clusters with out-of-the-box NVIDIA GPU support and native LDAP integration.
- Stability Fixes to enhance performance and reliability across HA, networking, storage, monitoring, and vCenter compatibility.
Streamlined Workload & Resource Management
Automate workload migration, VM orchestration, and K8s operations with unified resource management.
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- OneSwap Batch VMware & Windows Migrations to accelerate your transition from legacy hypervisors with automated, bulk migration capabilities, and simplify Windows conversions with new OS profiles and template best practices.
- Dynamic VM Group Management for flexible CLI-based control of VM groups in complex, multi-tier environments.
- Improved OneDRS Datastore Selection & Storage Migrations for smarter datastore placement based on real-time capacity and usage, with support for storage migrations across datastores and the ability to exclude specific VMs from automatic migration.
- Bulk Service VM Operations to execute scheduled action deletions across service VMs, significantly reducing manual overhead.
- Enhanced Kubernetes Provisioning (OneKS) to simplify container orchestration, support multi-cluster setup, and identify issues before deployment.
The New Experience Is Here
Integrations with Leading Enterprise Solutions
OpenNebula integrates with leading industry platforms to help you build, manage, and scale sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure across on-prem, edge, and hybrid environments.
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Funded by the Spanish Ministry for Digital Transformation and Civil Service through the ONEnextgen Project (UNICO IPCEI-2023-003), and co-funded by the European Union’s NextGenerationEU through the RRF.
