Cloud Engineer at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees
Nov 8, 2022
What's best about OpenNebula that people like is that it's easy to deploy. It's also easy to manage. It's interesting because people choose OpenNebula over other solutions because of the ease of management.
I also like the ability to build custom functions. I can define a function where I have two types of views and configure the dependencies. The virtual data centers concept allows me to define users. If a user wants to join certain kinds of machines, the host and the other user won't see them. It gives me the flexibility to define multiple views and data centers in one place.
Head - Operations & Sales at Computer Port IT Solutions
Jan 26, 2021
The ability to use it almost like a public cloud for an organization is a big asset, as it will create a value proposition and can control costs in a great way.
For the entire data center, as a private cloud, I believe that user management, expert management, and the virtual data center is completely magic for the users.
Cloud Engineer at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees
Nov 8, 2022
An area for improvement in OpenNebula is the number of features it has. The solution doesn't have that many cloud features compared to other solutions. You'd say, "Okay, simplicity over a rich feature list?" Some say, "No, I need a big machine or a cloud interface for my customers to manage resources. I don't have to go and do it for them." Some people do it that way, and it works, but I'd like to improve the limited features in OpenNebula.
It should have a simple REST API like most other tools. It's the industry standard format. An XML-RPC API gives you an XML document that you have to convert and then do something with that. REST API endpoint provides outputs in a JSON document. I would also like to see support for user data or heat templates, which OpenStack offers, but OpenNebula doesn't have this yet.
Head - Operations & Sales at Computer Port IT Solutions
Jan 26, 2021
Most of the competitors are offering some sort of billing software to transform their installation to work as a small-sized public cloud, but those offerings from OpenNebula are still missing.
