We want to keep you up-to-date with the main news and the latest information about OpenNebula and what you can expect in the following months.

Technology

The OpenNebula team is preparing a new maintenance release for Fox Fur. OpenNebula 4.10.2 will come with several bugfixes, the complete list can be consulted here. There are several affected components, ranging from drivers to the OpenNebula core as well as new Sunstone views.

Also a new feature related to the newly introduced vCenter support will be present in this new version, the ability to manage and import vCenter Networks as OpenNebula Virtual Networks, supporting IPv4, IPv6 and Ethernet address ranges. This also means that attach and detach network interface cards is possible for vCenter VMs. We would like to thank Echelon for making this feature possible through the Fund a Feature program.

The team (which never rests 😉 ) is also working in awesome new features for the next stable release, 4.12, like this nifty SPICE support for accessing your VMs.

This month was specially important for the OpenNebula project due to the release of the first stable release of vOneCloud 1.0, a CentOS Linux virtual appliance for vSphere that contains all required OpenNebula services optimized to work on existing VMware vCenter deployments, allowing to deploy an enterprise-ready OpenNebula cloud in just a few minutes. vOneCloud is for companies that want to create a self-service cloud environment on top of their VMware infrastructure, turning infrastructures managed by already familiar VMware tools such as vSphere and vCenter Operations Manager into automated, self-service private clouds where the provisioning, elasticity and multi-tenancy cloud features are offered by OpenNebula.

Community

Our community is a healthy, vibrant and supporting, as we re discovered in this year OpenNebula Conference (read below for more details).

To name but a few, OpenNebula has recently received a new shinny addon to support the IBM Storwize V7000 SAN. This is really valuable to the OpenNebula project since it is very difficult to support any piece of hardware from the datacenter, but with the help of our community we are getting at least the important bit. Thanks for your effort!

Words of encouragement are also very welcome in the workaholics team of OpenNebula. Specially words like these which perfectly capture the philosophy that drives the OpenNebula project.

Outreach

We held the second edition of the OpenNebula Conference this past month in Berlin, Germany. A very important result of the Conference was the amazing feedback received from the important actors in this field, ie, the OpenNebula users. We wanted to summarize the requested features and comments since for us this feedback is the main driver for the following roadmaps. This is what being a user driven project mean.

You can also find in this post a summary of our experiences in the conference, as well as the videos, presentations and photos. The conference was a great success, with many interesting speakers sharing their experiences with OpenNebula. As this tweet perfectly captures it, this is the general feedback from the Conference:

#opennebulaconf my phrase of the event: @runtastic “i’m not a developer and i use @opennebula because its works!! Simple and clear!!”

We have events in schedule already for early next week, like this RedIris multi-video session with presentations around the use of OpenNebula (Disclaimer: In Spanish). We are prepping as well for the next Cloud Expo in London, next March 2015, where we will be present in one of the corners of the Open Cloud Park (of course!) with our partners CloudWeavers and ViApps, and we would also like to invite you to join us in the upcoming FOSDEM’15. Moreover, the OpenNebula project will be represented in the next VMworld Europe to be held in Barcelona next 13th-15th of October 2015.

We have upcoming TechDays in future months, if you are interested in OpenNebula you can check the project page. Send us an email or send it to the community discuss mailing list if you are interested in hosting a TechDay event.

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.