Canada-EU Future Internet WorkshopWaterloo, CanadaMarch 24th, 2011

Ignacio M. LlorenteDSA-Research.org

Distributed Systems Architecture Research GroupUniversidad Complutense de Madrid

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Acknowledgments

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OpenNebulaLeading Innovation in Cloud

Computing Management

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme ([FP7/2007-2013] ) under grant agreement n° 215605 (RESERVOIR Project)

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ContentsOpenNebula – Leading Innovation in Cloud Computing Management

OpenNebula as Spin-off of the RESERVOIR Project● What is OpenNebula?● What is the RESERVOIR Project?● What is the OpenNebula Open-Source Project?● Who Uses OpenNebula?

OpenNebula as Reference Open Stack for Cloud Computing● How is OpenNebula Used in the Leading Projects?● What is Our innovation Model?● How to Boost Adoption of Cloud Technologies?● Open Research Issues?

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What is OpenNebula?Open-source Toolkit to Build your IaaS Cloud

IaaS Cloud Provider Simple web interface Raw infrastructure resources Pay-as-you-go & elastic capacity

• Private Cloud to simplify and optimize internal operations

• Hybrid Cloud to supplement the capacity of the Private Cloud

• Public Cloud to expose your Private to external users

Enabling Technology to Build your Cloud

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The Enabling Software Artifacts

What is the RESERVOIR Project?

Service Provider

Service Manager

VEE Manager

VEE Host

Service ProviderService Provider

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Telco eGovUtility SAP

www.reservoir-fp7.eu

Commercial Infrastructure Providers

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Commercial Service Managers

Source: RESERVOIR Project

Claudia

KVM

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Building the Industry Standard Open Source Cloud Computing Tool

Lead Innovation in Enterprise-Class Cloud Computing Management●Develop, maintain and assure the quality of OpenNebula●Collaborate with open-source and research projects and communities●Support the community and the ecosystem

An Active and Engaged Community●4,000 downloads/month●100 active contributors●OSS distribution channels

From a Research Project on Scalable Management of VMs

What is the OpenNebula Open-Source Project?

2005 2006 2007 20082009 2010 2011 2012

Research Project TP1 v1.0 v1.2 v1.4 v2.0v2.2

European Funding

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Organizations Building Clouds and Innovative Projects

Who Uses OpenNebula?

Organizations Building Clouds for Development, Testing and Production

16,000 VMs!

Projects Building an Open Cloud Ecosystem Around OpenNebula

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International Projects Building an Open Cloud Ecosystem Around OpenNebula

How is OpenNebula Used in the Leading Projects?

Building Service Multi-site Testbeds

Bringing Cloud to Grid Infrastructures

Developing an Open Stack for IaaS Clouds

Developing an Open Stack for PaaS Clouds

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Innovation platformInteroperability toolStandards Projects

Linux Distrib

Innovative functionalityMassive scalability

Ecosystem contributions

Adopt standards

Contribute to standards

Distribution channel

OSS Model for Projects• Avoid software fragmentation• Re-use SW components• Value transfer• Long-term sustainability

Industry & Academia

Building and Open Cloud Ecosystem

What is Our Innovation Model?

RequirementsFeedback

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Technology Gap

CulturalGap

UsabilityGap

• Research Initiatives

• Promote OSS

• Focused Innovation

• Standards

• Interoperability

• Legalistic issues, trust and security

• Educate users

• Provide experim. testbeds

Main Areas for EU-Canada Collaboration

Main Gaps for Adoption

How to Boost Adoption of Cloud Technologies?

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Key Research Challenges in Cloud Computing

Open Research Issues?

Cloud AggregationAggregation of resources from diverse cloud providers

adding additional layers of service management

Cloud ManagementDelivering infrastructure resources on-demand in a

multi-tenant, secure, elastic and scalable environment

Cloud EnablementEnhancing platform infrastructure to support cloud

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The Future of Cloud Computing. Opportunities for European Cloud Computing Beyond 2010, Expert Group Report (http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ssai/docs/cloud-report-final.pdf)

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