1. Canada-EU Future Internet Workshop
Waterloo, Canada
March 24th, 2011
OpenNebula
Leading Innovation in Cloud
Computing Management
Ignacio M. Llorente
DSA-Research.org
Distributed Systems Architecture Research Group
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Acknowledgments
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union's Seventh
Framework Programme ([FP7/2007-2013] ) under grant agreement n° 215605 (RESERVOIR Project)
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2. Contents
OpenNebula – Leading Innovation in Cloud Computing Management!
OpenNebula as Spin-off of the RESERVOIR Project
● What is OpenNebula?
● What is the RESERVOIR Project?
● What is the OpenNebula Open-Source Project?
● Who Uses OpenNebula?
OpenNebula as Reference Open Stack for Cloud Computing
● How is OpenNebula Used in the Leading Projects?
● What is Our innovation Model?
● How to Boost Adoption of Cloud Technologies?
● Open Research Issues?
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3. What is OpenNebula?
Open-source Toolkit to Build your IaaS Cloud!
IaaS Cloud Provider
 Simple web interface
 Raw infrastructure resources
 Pay-as-you-go & elastic capacity
Enabling Technology to Build your Cloud
• Private Cloud to simplify and optimize
internal operations
• Hybrid Cloud to supplement the capacity of
the Private Cloud
• Public Cloud to expose your Private to
external users
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4. What is the RESERVOIR Project?
The Enabling Software Artifacts!
www.reservoir-fp7.eu
Telco Utility eGov SAP
Commercial Service Managers
Service Provider
Service Provider
Service Provider
Claudia SMI
Service Manager
VMI
AWS
VMI VEE Manager
VHI
KVM VEE Host
VEE Host
VEE Host
Commercial Infrastructure Providers
Source: RESERVOIR Project
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5. What is the OpenNebula Open-Source Project?
Building the Industry Standard Open Source Cloud Computing Tool
Lead Innovation in Enterprise-Class Cloud Computing Management
● Develop, maintain and assure the quality of OpenNebula
● Collaborate with open-source and research projects and communities
● Support the community and the ecosystem
An Active and Engaged Community
● 4,000 downloads/month
● 100 active contributors
● OSS distribution channels
From a Research Project on Scalable Management of VMs
Research
Project TP1 v1.0 v1.2 v1.4 v2.0 v2.2
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
European Funding
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6. Who Uses OpenNebula?
Organizations Building Clouds and Innovative Projects!
Organizations Building Clouds for Development, Testing and Production
Projects Building an Open Cloud Ecosystem Around OpenNebula
16,000 VMs!
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7. How is OpenNebula Used in the Leading Projects?
International Projects Building an Open Cloud Ecosystem Around OpenNebula !
Developing an Open
Stack for IaaS Clouds
Bringing Cloud to Grid
Infrastructures
Developing an Open Building Service Multi-site Testbeds
Stack for PaaS Clouds
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8. What is Our Innovation Model?
Building and Open Cloud Ecosystem!
Innovation platform
Standards Contribute to Interoperability tool Projects
standards
Innovative functionality
Adopt
Massive scalability
standards
Ecosystem contributions
OSS Model for Projects Distribution
• Avoid software fragmentation channel
• Re-use SW components
• Value transfer Linux Distrib
• Long-term sustainability
Requirements
Feedback
Industry & Academia
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9. How to Boost Adoption of Cloud Technologies?
Main Gaps for Adoption!
Technology Usability Cultural
Gap Gap Gap
• Research Initiatives • Educate users
• Standards
• Provide experim.
• Promote OSS • Interoperability testbeds
• Focused Innovation • Legalistic issues,
trust and security
Main Areas for EU-Canada Collaboration
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10. Open Research Issues?
Key Research Challenges in Cloud Computing!
Cloud Aggregation
Cloud Interoperability
Ensuring that the available
together and interoperate
cloud services can work
Aggregation of resources from diverse cloud providers
adding additional layers of service management
successfully
Cloud Management
Delivering infrastructure resources on-demand in a multi-
tenant, secure, elastic and scalable environment
Cloud Enablement
Enhancing platform infrastructure to support cloud
management requirements
The Future of Cloud Computing. Opportunities for European Cloud
Computing Beyond 2010, Expert Group Report (http:/
/cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ssai/docs/cloud-report-final.pdf)
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11. Questions?
We Will Be Happy to Answer Any Question !
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