vOneCloud FeaturesΒΆ

vOneCloud leverages the functionality of OpenNebula. The following features come preconfigured and can be used out-of-the-box with vOneCloud:

  • Cloud User Interfaces
    • Simple, clean, intuitive portals for cloud consumers and Virtual Datacenter (VDC) administrators.
  • Cloud Admin Interfaces
    • SunStone Portal for administrators and advanced users
    • Powerful CLI that resembles typical UNIX commands applications
  • Import Existing Resources
    • Import existing vCenter VM Templates
    • Import existing vCenter Networks and Distributed vSwitches
    • Import existing running Virtual Machines
  • On-demand Provision of Virtual Data Centers
    • Dynamic creation of Virtual Data Centers (VDCs) as fully-isolated virtual infrastructure environments where a group of users, under the control of the VDC administrator, can create and manage compute capacity
    • Placement of VDCs to multiple vCenters
  • Hybrid Cloud
    • Cloud-bursting of VMs to public clouds
  • Fast Provisioning
    • Automatic provision of Virtual Machines from a Template catalog
    • VM Template cloning and editing capabilities to maintain Template catalog
    • Snapshotting
  • Security and Resource Consumption Control
    • Resource Quota Management to track and limit computing resource utilization
    • Fine-grained accounting and monitoring
    • Complete isolated VDCs and organizations
    • Fine-grained ACLs and user quotas
    • Powerful user, group and role management
    • vCenter Network and Distributed vSwitch support
    • Attach/detach network interfaces funcionality
  • Enterprise Datacenter Component Integration Capabilities
    • Integration with user management services like Active Directory and LDAP.
    • HTTP Proxy support
  • Reliability, Efficiency and Massive Scalability
    • Profit from years of testing and production use
    • Be sure that your Cloud Mangement Platform will be up to the task

vOneCloud additionally brings new configuration and upgrade tools:

  • Appliance and Services Configuration
    • Control Console for vOneCloud appliance configuration
    • Control Panel (Web UI) for vOneCloud services configuration
  • Smooth Upgrade Process
    • Automatic upgrade process and notifications through the Control Panel available for users with an active support subscription

If you feel that there is a particular feature interesting for the general public, feel free to add a feature request in Community - Feature Request section of the vOneCloud Support Portal.

vOneCloud can leverage all the functionality that OpenNebula delivers, but some of it needs additional configuration steps:

  • Centralized Management of Multiple Zones. Federate different datacenters by joining several vOneCloud instances.
  • Community Virtual Appliance Marketplace. Create your own marketplace or benefit from community contributions with an online catalog of ready-to-run virtual appliances.
  • Broad Commodity and Enterprise Platform Support. Underlying OpenNebula software features an amazingly flexible and plugin oriented architecture that eases the integration with existing datacenter components. Do no reinvent your datacenter, evolve it!
  • Virtual & Physical Infrastructure Control. Manage all aspects of your physical (hypervisors, storage backends, etc) & virtualized (VM lifecycle, VM images, virtual networks, etc) from a centralized web interface (Sunstone).
  • Management of multi-VM application (services) through the OneFlow component. OneFlow allows users and administrators to define, execute and manage multi-tiered applications, or services composed of interconnected Virtual Machines with deployment dependencies between them. Each group of Virtual Machines is deployed and managed as a single entity.

Although the configuration is tailored for vCenter infrastructures, all the power of OpenNebula is contained in vOneCloud and it can be unleashed!