1. Cloud Standards, Interoperability and Testing Workshop
Madrid, Spain, September 18th, 2013
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Interoperability Features in OpenNebula
Daniel Molina Aranda
Project Engineer
The research leading to these results has received funding from Comunidad de Madrid through research grant
MEDIANET S2009/TIC-1468,
Acknowledgments

2. 2Interoperability Features in OpenNebula
Contents
Interoperability Features in OpenNebula
● What is OpenNebula
● Challenges for Interoperability and Portability
● Our Approach for Interoperability and Portability
● Some Examples of Community Collaborations

3. 3Interoperability Features in OpenNebula
What is OpenNebula?
Open Cloud Solution for Building and Managing Virtualized Data Centers
Private
Public
Hybrid

4. 4Interoperability Features in OpenNebula
Openness
• Open Architecture
• Open Interfaces & Code
Interoperable
• Use of standards
• OCCI, AWS EC2
Adaptable
• Modular architecture
Very Light
• Highly efficient
Enterprise Ready
• Single installing & update process
• Support for various platforms
Proven
• Tested & Mature
Powerful
• Features for
DC virtualization
No Lock-In
• Platform
independant
Why OpenNebula?
Design principles

5. 5Interoperability Features in OpenNebula
The Challenges
Interoperability and Portability
VM
VM VM VM VM
1. Management Interfaces
2. VM Image Format
4. Cross-site Networking
3. Contextualization

6. 6Interoperability Features in OpenNebula
Our Approach
Leveraging Existing Standards and Implementing Interoperation
Standardization
● Implement standards
● Integrate with standards
Which Standard?
● Different de jure standards
● Several de facto standards
Interoperation
● Implement adaptors
● Use transformers

7. 7Interoperability Features in OpenNebula
Our Approach
Native XML-RPC API. Control and Manage Any OpenNebula Resource
XMLRPC API

8. 8Interoperability Features in OpenNebula
Our Approach
CLI & Sunstone GUI for Private Users and Administrators
XMLRPC API
Administrator
Private
User
GUI / CLI

9. 9Interoperability Features in OpenNebula
Our Approach
Manage VMs, Networks and Images through a Simple and Easy-to-use API
XMLRPC API
Administrator
Private
User
Public
User
GUI / CLI

10. 10Interoperability Features in OpenNebula
Our Approach
Interaction Between OpenNebula and The Cloud Infrastructure
XMLRPC API
Administrator
Private
User
Public
User
Virt API Stor API Net API Monit API Auth API
GUI / CLI

11. 11Interoperability Features in OpenNebula
Some Examples of Community Collaborations
A Quickly Growing Ecosystem for Interoperability and Portability
Ecosystem
Ecosystem
Ecosystem
CDMI
OVF
Hypervisor
s
Adaptors
Ecosystem

12. 12Interoperability Features in OpenNebula
OpenNebula Cloud API Survey
Level of Use of the Current APIs
38%
do not expose cloud APIs, their users only
interface through the Sunstone GUI
36%
mostly use the AWS API
26%
mostly use the OpenNebula’s OCCI API or
the OCCI API offered by rOCCI
Survey Q2 2013 (200 users http://blog.opennebula.org/?p=4716)

13. 13Interoperability Features in OpenNebula
OpenNebula Cloud API Survey
How to Invest Our Resources to Enhance the Cloud APIs
Survey Q2 2013 (200 users http://blog.opennebula.org/?p=4716)

14. 14Interoperability Features in OpenNebula
Amazon EC2 improvements in OpenNebula
Security Groups, Autoscaling & CloudWatch
We currently support:
• Instance creation and management
• EBS
• Keypairs
• Elastic IPs
We are working on improving:
Security Groups
Regions &
Availability Zones
Clusters &
Different
Endpoints
Autoscaling
OneFlow
CloudWatch
OneGate

15. 15Interoperability Features in OpenNebula
Join Us at OpenNebulaConf 2013!

16. 16Interoperability Features in OpenNebula
We Will Be Happy to Clarify Any Question
Questions?
The research leading to these results has received funding from Comunidad de Madrid through research grant
MEDIANET S2009/TIC-1468,
Acknowledgments