If you missed our presentation, you can get the slides here:

See you next year!

• 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.

If you are a passionate OpenNebula user and are interested in starting your own OpenNebula User Group, join our Community Discuss mailing list and let us know about your plans.

There is more information in the new User Groups section of our site.

We look forward to your User Group proposal!

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!

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.

OpenNebula 4.0 is the result of the terrific feedback of the day-to-day operation of virtualized infrastructures by many of you, result of all your contributions, bug reports, patches, and translations, but one and foremost, OpenNebula 4.0 is the realization of a vision of simplicity, openness, code-correctness and a sysadmin-centric approach. This defines our personality as a community, it defines the OpenNebula Way. Now the features that you’ve been waiting for….

OpenNebula 4.0 includes new features in most of its subsystems. We are showing for the first time a completely redesigned Sunstone, with a fresh and modern look and an updated workflow for most of the dialogs. The also new Sunstone Views functionality allows to customize the GUI for each type of user or group, so the interface implements a different provisioning model for each role. A whole new set of operations for VMs like system and disk snapshoting, capacity re-sizing, programmable VM actions and IPv6 among others. There are some new drivers also, like Ceph; as well as improvements for VMware, KVM and Xen. The scheduler has received some attention from the OpenNebula team to easily define more placement policies… and much more (see below).

This is a stable release and so a recommended update that incorporates several bug fixes since 4.0 Beta and 4.0 RC. Although this is a major release we’ve done our best to keep compatibility with OpenNebula 3.8 so any application developed for previous versions should work without effort. We have changed the name of some of the operations over the VM (we have now 32 different management actions) so be sure to check the compatibility and upgrade guides.

As enterprise-ready product, each OpenNebula Series is maintained for three years, in few days we will release the first Service Pack for the OpenNebula 3 Series.

As usual OpenNebula releases are named after a Nebula. The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux in 1745-46. It is located about 7,000 light-years away from Earth.

Thanks to all people that have contributed to OpenNebula 4.0!

Screencasts

We have created a series of screencasts to illustrate the most improtant features of OpenNebula 4.0.

Relevant Links

• Release Notes
• Features
• Downloads
• Documentation

The OpenNebula Project is proud to announce that the first ever OpenNebula Global Conference will be held in Berlin from the 24th to the 26th of September 2013. The Conference 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 event is all about enabling the next generation platform for enterprise cloud computing and data center virtualization, and will focus on:

• Discussing the latest technology updates, roadmap, and features
• Supporting the developers community
• Presenting use cases and deployment experiences
• Introducing new integrations and ecosystem developments
• Collaborating with other open-source projects and communities

In few weeks we will announce the line-up of keynote speakers.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS IS NOW OPEN

The agenda will consist of 45-minute slots for invited keynote speakers and accepted submissions. If you are a OpenNebula practitioner, user, architect, devop, admin or developer and have something important to share, we welcome your submission. Suggested topics include:

• 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

All submissions must be received before midnight June 15, 2013 CEST. Please submit all needed information using our submission form.

You will receive a notification whether or not your presentation proposal was accepted by June 30th.

CALL FOR SPONSORS IS NOW OPEN

Sponsoring OpenNebulaConf is a great chance to present your company with the leading open source datacenter virtualization solution on the market. For information on sponsorship opportunities you can visit the conference site. We offer a wide range of sponsorship opportunities to allow you to choose a package that suits your marketing needs. We’ll happily work with you to find a sponsorship that fits your needs.

ABOUT OPENNEBULA

The OpenNebula Project is an open-source project delivering the most feature-rich, customizable and open solution to build enterprise clouds and virtualized data centers. With thousands of deployments worldwide, OpenNebula has a very wide user base that includes leading companies in banking, technology, telecom and hosting, and research and supercomputing centers.

OpenNebula 4.0 includes new features, like a complete facelift of the web interface (Sunstone), NIC hotplug, VM action scheduling, VM snapshotting, more consistent action naming, outsider VMs tracking (wild and zombie VMs), new drivers for Ceph backends, and a myriad of bug fixes and minor enhancements.

Although this release is considered stable, we are still fixing some bugs and it is aimed at testers and developers to try the new features. Your feedback is more than welcomed for the final release.

Relevant Links

• Release Notes
• Downloads
• Documentation

The whole experience of both events has been wonderful. The audience was involved, engaged, friendly, gave a wonderful amount of feedback, so, big thanks to you all for continously making OpenNebula a better product, for all those great conversations and for all the interest. We are very much looking forward to participate in future editions of Loadays and CentOS Dojo, and to possibly host a CentOS Dojo edition in the future!

Special thanks to the organizers of both events: Kris Buytaert (@KrisBuytaert), Toshaan Bharvani (@toshywoshy), Karanbir Singh (@kbsingh) and the great guys of the venue, the Don Bosco school: Robert Keersse (@RobertKeersse).

Oh, did we mention already that every speaker got a Raspberry Pi?

NETWAYS has been supporting companies to manage complex, multifaceted IT infrastructures for more than 15 years. Specializing in enterprise grade open source tools, they ensure the smooth operation of networks, servers and applications. NETWAYS has chosen OpenNebula for its implementation of standards, efficiency, availability, and scalability. NETWAYS has been successfully using OpenNebula in various production environments for several years.

More information in the NETWAYS press release.