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OpenNebula
OpenNebula is an OpenSource Virtual Infrastructure Manager with capabilities to administrate a pool of Xen or KVM enabled physical nodes, useful to create a Computing Cloud. This project is part of the Reservoir Project (Resources and Services Virtualization without Barriers), a Seventh Framework Programme initiative to explore the deployment and management of IT services across different administrative domains, IT platforms and geographies.

Features

 * On-demand provision of Virtual machines to meet the demands of the service end-users.
 * Balance of workload to improve efficiency and utilization.
 * Server consolidation to a reduced number of physical systems, therefore reducing space, administration effort, power and cooling requirements or supporting the shutdown of systems without interfering workload.
 * Dynamic resizing of the physical infrastructure by adding new hosts.
 * Dynamic cluster partitioning to execute different services.
 * Support for heterogeneous workloads with multiple (even conflicting) software requirements, allowing the execution of software with strict requirements as jobs that will only run with a specific version of a library or legacy application execution.
 * Centralized Management. A single access point to manage a pool of VMs and physical resources.
 * Command line interface similar to actual Job Scheduler systems.
 * XML-RPC API to interact with the system.

Future development

 * New drivers to interact with other hypervisor technologies (VMware).
 * Scheduling algorithms to optimize physical resources utilization, power consumption and advanced allocation of resources.
 * Failure tolerance.
 * Transfer support for remote image repositories.