OpenNebula Reviews & Product Details

OpenNebula platform helps us build & manage VM instances & Kubernetes clusters. It provisions a shared environment for both VMs and K8 clusters so that we can overview both workloads in a single pane of glass. It also manages the orchestration of front-end master nodes of the cluster & its infrastructure requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its knowledge base requires focus since there are many complications while working with K8 clusters. It would be great to offer more details on its features & best practices so that we can pick up its platform quickly. Apart from this, we are good with services provided by the OpenNebula platform for VM deployments & cluster management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its simplicity in understanding the nomenclature with regard to the integration of master and worker nodes, running of services, and mostly the marketplace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To the best of my knowledge, there is nothing to dislike; however, deployment documentation (as of 2017) could have been better for elastic or on-demand clouds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very helpful platform to use for VM creation and works very smoothly

New users can get started very quickly

No formal training is required for new users

Saves lot of cost in terms of Hardware Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

New features support and catch up to new technologies

Sometimes slowness is experienced by users

while accessing some GUI forms etc

But overall a great platform to work on Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

its simplicty , Documentation for OpenNebula Support Subscription Private Components,Tools to build OpenNebula packages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

its security mechanisms leaves a lot to be desired: requirement for a passwordless sudo account, CLI configuration stored as a plaintext Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Able to boot up VM from a template that IT has created in about 5 minutes. I am able to quickly monitor the status of systems and boot up or shut down them as needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cannot save my favorite templates to a home screen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It allows you to manage infrastructures in a fast and scalable way, you can also control, create virtual machines and you can monitor the services in the cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is not widely used at present, lack of documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Reliable

Powerful

Open Source

Easy to setup

Nice UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some what finicky operation

Works best with higher end equipment, especially networking

I need bigger servers! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The great thing about OpenNebula is its simplicity. Comparing to other private IaaS solution that are open-sources (for instance OpenStack, CloudStack) it is much simpler to install and maintain. Similarly, due to its simply, plugin-based architecture developing a custom hypervisor driver was a breeze. The same applies to web console - it is clear, elegant and undoubtedly matches the latset UX trends. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sadly, the above-mentioned simplicity of OpenNebula doesn't mean that it is an elegant product. It surely has a lot of rough edges. For instance, its security mechanisms leaves a lot to be desired: requirement for a passwordless sudo account, CLI configuration stored as a plaintext. Besides, we found out that there are some 'hacks' in platform's core engine just to support some specific technology stack that should be rather provided as a well-though plugin mechanism. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For me it's been the ease of use and reliability of the system. Installation and setup of our initial hosts were straight forward and then from there the ability to scale up across the infrastructure we created with such speed was definitely miles ahead of OpenStack (our first attempt at a private cloud) at the time of setup.

Our aim has been to have our own AWS type infrastructure alongside it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think there's some work to do with managing configuration of underlying hosts. It would be nice to have a faster route to scaling up and provisioning interfaces.

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Flexibility, extensibility, simplicity and clean-cut design fit for purpose. Easy to deploy and manage. Excellent community. Scales nicely for small to mid-range deployments (hundreds of hosts, thousands of virtual machines). Provides interfaces for beginners and advanced users. Can be used for data center management as well as private cloud deployments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Won't scale as well for very large deployments (thousands of hosts, tens of thousands of virtual machines). Rudimentary user management, ACLs and simplistic approach to authentication (not necessarily a problem, depending on the deployment environment). Misuses MySQL for document-centric data (XML) which impacts performance, data integrity and DB scalability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.