The OpenNebula Project announces the general availability of the first Service Pack for the OpenNebula 3 Series (3.8.4). After its first year, and for two additional years, the Project distributes a Service Pack (SP) for each major release that combines all the patches to easily install or deploy its last update. Service Packs allow users to maintain their current OpenNebula version as long as possible, preserving the stability and security of their data centers, as they transition from one OpenNebula Series to the next.

This is a maintenance release that fixes bugs reported by the community after 3.8.3 was released. This release only includes bug fixes and is a recommended update for everyone running any OpenNebula 3.x, whom for any particular reason do not want to upgrade their cloud manager to the latest available OpenNebula version.

Relevant Links

• Release Notes
• Features
• Downloads
• Documentation

The OpenNebula Project is proud to announce the final line-up of keynote speakers for the first OpenNebula Conference.

• Steven Timm, FermiLab, will speak about “Enabling Scientific Workflows on FermiCloud using OpenNebula”
• Zhihong Zhang, China Mobile, will speak about “OpenNebula at China Mobile”
• Daniel Concepción, Produban – Santander Group, will speak about “Discovering the Bumpy Road to the Cloud”
• Karanbir Singh, CentOS Project, will speak about “CentOS and OpenNebula, a Perfect Match”
• Jordi Farrés, European Space Agency, will speak about “Opening the Path to Technical Excellence”
• André von Deetzen, Deutsche Post E-Post, will speak about “Improve! Every day!”

In few days we will publish the Agenda of the event that will also include the talk proposals received, a hands-on tutorial, and several community sessions.

We are looking forward to welcoming you personally in Berlin!. Please register as soon as possible since the number of places is limited. There is still time to take advantage of our early registration offer, which expires at the end of June.

As user of OpenNebula and member of its community you should be speaking at the first edition of the OpenNebula Conference in September in Berlin. The deadline for receiving talk proposals is Saturday, June 15th. We recommend submitting your proposal as early as possible at http://opennebulaconf.com/proposals/.

We are looking for technical presentations about design, development, and deployment of OpenNebula-based Clouds, and its integration with other related technologies in the data center:

• Latest developments in OpenNebula
• Research using OpenNebula
• User experiences and case studies using OpenNebula
• Best practices and tools
• Integration with other cloud, virtualization and data center components
• Any other topics that you feel are relevant to developers, users, researchers and other members of the community

Keynote Line-up

Important Dates

• Deadline Call for Proposals: June 15th, 2013
• Final Agenda: June 30th, 2013
• End of Early Bird Registration: June 30th, 2013
• Conference: September 24th-26th, 2013

We are Looking Forward to Welcoming you Personally in Berlin!

The Conference will serve as a meeting point for OpenNebula cloud users, developers, administrators, builders, integrators and researchers and a great opportunity to share experiences and network .

Please register as soon as possible at http://opennebulaconf.com/registration/ since the number of places is limited. There is still time to take advantage of our early registration offer, which expires at the end of June.

Sponsorship

Sponsoring OpenNebulaConf is a great chance to present your company with the leading open source datacenter virtualization solution on the market. Find out more about our sponsoring opportunities at http://opennebulaconf.com/sponsors/.

Questions?

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via contact(at)opennebulaconf.com or use the form at http://opennebulaconf.com/contact/.

The OpenNebula Project is proud to announce an expanded line-up of keynote speakers for the first OpenNebula Conference. The Conference, taking place from 24th-26th September 2013 in Berlin, will serve as a meeting point for OpenNebula cloud users, developers, administrators, builders, integrators and researchers and a great opportunity to share experiences and network with other projects.

Confirmed keynote speakers are from world’s leading corporate and research institutions.

• Steven Timm, FermiLab, will speak about “Enabling Scientific Workflows on FermiCloud using OpenNebula”
• Zhihong Zhang, China Mobile, will speak about “OpenNebula at China Mobile”
• Daniel Concepción, Produban – Santander Group, will speak about “Discovering the Bumpy Road to the Cloud”
• Karanbir Singh, CentOS Project, will speak about “CentOS and OpenNebula, a Perfect Match”
• Jordi Farrés, European Space Agency, will speak about “Opening the Path to Technical Excellence”.

The conference site will be updated to reflect new keynote speakers as they are confirmed.

This first ever edition of the OpenNebula Conference will be hosted by open source specialist NETWAYS, which has long experience in the organization of events in the open source environment. OpenNebulaConf2013 offers a multi-day conference that includes hands-on tutorials, keynote speakers and several thematic tracks.

Please fill in the proposal form to register your interest in presenting at OpenNebula Conference 2013. Deadline for talk proposals is the 15th of June.

We are looking forward to welcoming you personally in Berlin!. Please register as soon as possible since the number of places is limited. There is still time to take advantage of our early registration offer, which expires at the end of June.

Here’s our monthly newsletter, with the main news from the last month, including what you can expect in the coming months.

Technology

The OpenNebulaApps have catched up with OpenNebula 4.0. This new version comes with a new appearance, tailored to match the new Sunstone, and multiple bug fixes. The development department is working full steam on new OpenNebulaApp features, so stay tuned for useful and awesome new features for the 4.2 release of the Apps. There is also a huge amount of work devoted to the upcoming 4.2 release. We held a public IRC meeting to define the 4.2 roadmap, to discuss the requests for new features and for extending existing features.

Multiple changes are being carried out in the VMware drivers, aimed to give more control over VMware resources, and a more fine grained management of VMware virtual machines. Special attention is being paid to the storage backend option for VMware, polishing existing combinations and dropping some of the less used ones. Also, synergies and potential integrations are being explored between OpenNebula, Foreman and Puppet. Moreover, new drivers to interact with Xen 4.2 are being developed. These will enable the use of new Xen features like VHD images and a more tight HVM integration. A new virtual router is available in the marketplace, featuring a smaller image size and providing routing, port forwarding, dhcp, radvd and dns server functionality.

Community

The OpenNebula community is as vibrant as ever! Check out this amazing post where an community extension is explained (including a very nice video), which enables Infiniband interfaces in KVM virtual machines. Thanks David, fine indeed. Former ONEr Hector San Juan updated the VirtualBox drivers for OpenNebula, very useful for sandboxing and development environments.

Outreach

We want to remind you about the First OpenNebula Conference!. The Conference, based in Berlin between the 24 and 26 of september, will serve as a meeting point for OpenNebula cloud users, developers, administrators, builders, integrators and researchers and a unique opportunity for discussion and collaboration with other projects. This month several very interesting speakers were confirmed:

• Steven Timm, FermiLab, will speak about Enabling Scientific Workflows on FermiCloud using OpenNebula
• Zhihong Zhang, China Mobile, will speak about OpenNebula at China Mobile
• Daniel Concepción, Produban – Santander Group, will speak about Discovering the Bumpy Road to the Cloud
• Karanbir Singh – CentOS project, will speak about CentOS and OpenNebula, a Perfect Match
• Jordi Farrés – European Space Agency, will speak about Opening the Path to Technical Excellence

If you are interested in giving a talk or attending the conference, now is the perfect time!

Besides, this month marked the creation of multiple OpenNebula user groups. The following is a lits of the already formed ones:

• OpenNebula User Group France.
• OpenNebula User Group Italy.

Besides, the following are in the process of becoming OpenNebula user group:

• United States of America
• Spain
• Hungary
• Cuba
• Egypt

This past month a number of events were participated by OpenNebula members:

• Trinity College Dublin Talk and Irish Free Software Organisation, An Introduction to OpenNebula, Dublin, May 15.
• Xen Hackathon May 2013,, May 16-17, Dublin. Javier Fontan will be in charge of the Update OpenNebula integration to use latest Xen version
• LinuxTag, Berlin,Germany, May 22-25, 2013

During the following months, members of the OpenNebula team will be speaking in the following events:

• ISC Cloud’13, Hands on Tutorial, “Building your Cloud for HPC, here and now, in 3 hours!” Heidelberg, Germany 23-24 September,
• EGI Technichal Forum, Keynote , Madrid, Spain. 16-20 september

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.

We are proud to announce the first, partial list of Keynote Speakers for OpenNebula Conference 2013. The list includes world’s leading corporate and research institutions.

• Steven Timm, FermiLab, will speak about Enabling Scientific Workflows on FermiCloud using OpenNebula
• Zhihong Zhang, China Mobile, will speak about OpenNebula at China Mobile
• Daniel Concepción, Produban – Santander Group, will speak about Discovering the Bumpy Road to the Cloud

Stay tuned because more Keynote Speakers will be announced soon!.

There is also available a limited number of speaking opportunities. Please fill in the proposal form to register your interest in presenting at OpenNebula Conference 2013.

We are looking forward to welcoming you personally in Berlin!. Please register as soon as possible since the number of places is limited. There is still time to take advantage of our early registration offer, which expires at the end of June.

Having released OpenNebula 4.0 Eagle, now is the time to close the release cycle with a public webinar showing the new features included in the latest stable release. You are all invited to join the webinar this Tuesday 14th at 17:00 CEST, to learn what has kept us so busy in the last months.

This will also mark the milestone of the opening cycle for the next release, OpenNebula 4.2. This cycle will start with an IRC meeting this Thursday 16th at 17:00 CEST to discuss the requests for new features and for extending existing features. This valuable input will be used to create the short-term roadmap with the features that will be part of the release cycle.

The ideal process of the discussion would be for any person interested in discussing a feature request to open first a feature request ticket in the OpenNebula development portal. Before opening it, though, if you haven’t read how we manage the features request, please do so here. The OpenNebula developers would discuss in the IRC meeting those features requesst in the Pending state.  See you at the #opennebula channel at freenode.net!

Here’s our monthly newsletter, a bit delayed due to the release effort (sorry folks!), with the main news from the last month, including what you can expect in the coming months.

Technology

OpenNebula 4.0 Eagle has been released this month, with the new Sunstone aspect and the new awesome features: Sunstone Views functionality, a whole new set of operations for VMs like system and disk snapshotting, capacity resizing, programmable VM actions, IPv6, new drivers also, like Ceph; as well as improvements for VMware, KVM and Xen.

The Sandboxes have been updated to 4.0, so if you want to try out the goodies that Eagle brings under the hood, take a look at the Try Out section. You can download and launch a virtual machine with a configured OpenNebula installation, with various flavors for ESX, VirtualBox, KVM and Amazon EC2. There are new screencasts available, to swiftly glimpse the new functionality offered.

Now is the time to plan the roadmap for the next release. For this reason, we will organize a demonstration of the new features of Eagle, followed a couple of days after of an IRC session to discuss with the community the nice things to have for the next release, 4.2.

Community

Reached this point, we want to give a huge THANKS! to our community. No, seriously guys, you rock big time. Feedback obtained for the beta and release candidates were precious, detailed and very important. Eagle wouldn’t be nearly as good as it is today without all of you.

Patrick McGarry, from the Ceph team, worked with us to create a blog post explaining the new and shiny integration of OpenNebula and Ceph. Giovanni Toraldo also participated extensively integrating jcloud with the OpenNebula EC2 interface (econe), suggesting improvements in the interface to smooth the integration.

There has been a grand effort carried out by the community in the matter of the Sunstone translations. Eagle just included three new languages (Dutch, Polish and Simplified Chinese) to OpenNebula Sunstone, making the overall available number of languages the impressive figure of 17. Many thanks to all translators!

Outreach

A big milestone for the OpenNebula project is the First OpenNebula Conference!. The Conference, based in Berlin, will serve as a meeting point for OpenNebula cloud users, developers, administrators, builders, integrators and researchers and a unique opportunity for discussion and collaboration with other projects. Join us in Berlin in September, 24-26!

This past month a number of events were participated by OpenNebula members:

• Linux Open Admin Days, AntWerp, Belgium, April 6 and 7 2013
• Open Source Data Center conference, Nuremberg, April 17 and 18 2013

During the following months, members of the OpenNebula team will be speaking in the following events:

• Trinity College Dublin Talk and Irish Free Software Organisation,  An Introduction to OpenNebula, Dublin, May 15.
• Hackathon May 2013, May 16-17, Dublin.
• LinuxTag, Berlin, Germany, May 22-25, 2013

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.

Here’s our monthly newsletter with the main news from the last month, including what you can expect in the coming months.

Technology

While OpenNebula 4.0 Beta is already out in the wild, the OpenNebula team is working flat out fixing bugs and stabilizing the code to release the final 4.0 version (codename Eagle) as soon as possible.

Feedback for the new Sunstone interface has been great so far, and the last touches are being given to the new self-service portal that would use the same foundation as Sunstone. Administrators and users would be able to log in into different views, accessing different functionality.

An answer was also looked for the question Which Cloud Management Platform is the most open?, where arguments are given for the different perspectives (namely, developers and users) of the cloud actors.

Also, we would like to remind you about the active Call for Translations for OpenNebula 4.0 Eagle, so if you are interested in translating Sunstone to your language, please take a look at this email.

Community

Another month, the community has been as involved and as active as ever. Cisco is contributing a prototype for NetApp filers to leverage its fast cloning capabilities. Cerit has created a VMM driver for managing truly High Availability OpenNebula KVM instances via RedHat’s “High Availability Add-On”. China Mobile is integrating a new storage system with OpenNebula in its Big Cloud Elastic Computing. This is interesting since they manage a large scale deployment, so their feedback on this is very valuable for the project and the software.

We welcomed two new partners  (NetWays and Inovex) in Germany that are providing value-added integration and consulting services around OpenNebula. These new partnerships underpin the confidence of these companies have in OpenNebula and C12G Labs. They have identified OpenNebula as the best available open source product for cloud applications after thorough and critical evaluation.

Outreach

This past month a number of events were participated by OpenNebula members:

• CeBIT, Hanover, Germany, March 5-9, 2013
• Floss UK, Newcastle, UK, March 20 and 21, 2013

During the following months, members of the OpenNebula team will be speaking in the following events:

• Linux Open Admin Days, AntWerp, Belgium, April 6 and 7 2013
• CentOS Dojo, AntWerp, Belgium, April 8 2013
• Open Source Data Center Conference (OSDC 2013) , Nuremberg, April 17 and 18 2013
• LinuxTag, Berlin, Germany, May 22-25, 2013

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.

A huge effort is being put in by the OpenNebula team to finish and polish the features that define the upcoming OpenNebula 4.0. Here’s our monthly newsletter with the main news from the last month, including what you can expect in the coming months.

Technology

The OpenNebula team has been busy with the next major release, OpenNebula 4.0. We expect the Beta release to be available in mid-March, followed by the final release towards the end of the month.

There has been already leaks of the Sunstone facelift, and the team is working at top speed to add the latest features to the Web GUI. For instance, the ability to create virtual machine snapshots and hotplug network interfaces, as well as the possibility of schedule actions over virtual machines (“shutdown this machine next saturday at 10:00am”) are currently at work in the Sunstone interface. Also, there has been a major reform of the command line interface, with new added possibilities.

After receiving several requests from our users to sponsor some particular features, a new program called “Fund a Feature” has been created, which allows organizations to fund the development of new features. And lastly, we have prepared an article to briefly describe our experience about the different types of cloud models, and our view about how the main open-source cloud management platforms (namely Eucalyptus, CloudStack, OpenStack and OpenNebula) are targeting their needs.

Community

The community has been as vibrant as ever this month! We have amazing contributions like the really good help at the time of the development of the new Ceph drivers. An amazing contribution in the realm of the LVM shared drivers has also emerged from the community, with a very neat and detailed documentation. Moreover, contributions to the ecosystem components have been made as well, like the cxm cluster, a solution to host virtual machines on a pool of Xen hypervisors connected to a SAN.

Our community is also present in several multi-site cloud infrastructures, like BonFIRE, with contributions like the NFS and LVM deployment with OpenNebula. We are also very proud to have contributed to the European Roadmap for Cloud Technologies under H2020

Outreach

This past month a number of events were participated by OpenNebula members:

• FOSDEM 2013, Brussels, Belgium, February 2 and 3, 2013

During the following months, members of the OpenNebula team will be speaking in the following events:

• CeBIT, Hanover, Germany, March 5-9, 2013
• Floss UK, Newcastle, UK, March 20 and 21, 2013
• Linux Open Admin Days, AntWerp, Belgium, April 6 and 7, 2013
• LinuxTag, Berlin, Germany, May 22-25, 2013

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.