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OpenNebula Newsletter – December 2017

Tino Vazquez

Chief Operating Officer at OpenNebula Systems

Dec 26, 2017

As expected, we have been working hard to finish 2017 stronger than ever. Below you will find a brief recap on the work done this month to keep OpenNebula ready.

The amazing response from our community to the call for TechDay hosts published last month is just another sign that things are going great around OpenNebula and we appreciate the effort. The schedule of events for 2018 will be published within the first weeks of January. Now we are focussing on keeping everything prepared for the upcoming year, which seems to be full of new and amazing challenges.

Technology

Improvements on Sunstone and the EC2 drivers were introduced this month. These came along with our two latests hotfix releases: OpenNebula 5.4.4 and 5.4.5.

An even faster Sunstone? Yes!

Our team managed to improve Sunstone’s load times so you can focus on your cloud administration. Some other suggestions have been implemented such us the request to make changes on the settings page and increase the disk size with the beautiful Sunstone slider. For the EC2 drivers some issues related with custom userdata have been solved successfully, also we made it possible to add EC2 target hosts through Sunstone.

But this is just a little summary, you can check other changes and enhancements on the following links:

We never give up! Even though migrating from Redmine to Github was a very tedious job, we managed to label all the issues correctly and in a cleaner way.

Community

As an open source project, OpenNebula needs the support of a proactive community of users, which we are glad to have!

It is a pleasure for us to see how you interact with each other solving doubts and asking questions. However, to enhance the activity of our Forum we have an active support team trying to solve your questions at any time. Feel free to ask and answer any question and if you are not yet part of our amazing community you can register with a few clicks at the forum’s main page.

Great news coming from Germany. Adacor Hosting now manages it’s virtualization system using OpenNebula. They published an interesting article where you can find the reasons for their change from OpenStack to OpenNebula.

OpenNebula is an open source cloud solution that provides a highly available, scalable and highly efficient virtualization platform

Another inspiring article, this time about vOneCloud, can be found here . In this article you will find an overall explanation of what vOneCloud can do for you, along with some useful links for downloading the latest vOneCloud release.

vOneCloud is for companies that want to create a self-service cloud environment on top of their VMware infrastructure without having to abandon their investment in VMware and retool the entire stack.

It is also worth noting that Virtuozzo now seamlessly integrates with OpenNebula. Therefore OpenNebula can be used as the orchestrator of this fine hyperconvergence platform. This is very good news for the OpenNebula ecosystem!

We are pleased to announce support of OpenNebula as a management panel for Virtuozzo’s Hyperconverged Platform. By combining the vast capabilities of OpenNebula with Virtuozzo-specific features of hypervisor and software defined storage, users are able to take advantages of the combined synergies

Outreach

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Next year is full of surprises, events and hard work, so please stay tuned!

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