Overview¶
OpenNebula provides the tools needed to dynamically grow your cloud infrastructure with Edge (lightweight) or HCI (based on Ceph) Clusters built with virtual and physical resources running on remote cloud providers, based on the KVM or LXC hypervisors. You are able to grow your private cloud with resources at cloud and edge data center locations and enable true hyrbid and multi-cloud environments to meet latency, bandwidth, or data regulation needs of your workload.
In this quick start guide we use Edge Clusters to easily build a cloud infrastructure and try the main operation and user features of OpenNebula.
Edge Clusters can be virtual or metal depending of the instance type used to build the cluster. Note that not all providers offer both instance types.
Important
Providers based on virtual instances have been disabled by default.
Edge/Cloud Provider |
Edge Cluster |
Hypervisor |
|---|---|---|
metal |
KVM and LXC |
|
metal |
KVM and LXC |
|
metal |
KVM and LXC |
The Edge Cluster type determines the hypervisor and workload that can be run in the cluster. The following table summarizes the Edge Cluster you need to run specific workloads:
Use Case |
Edge Cluster |
Hypervisor |
|---|---|---|
metal |
KVM, LXC |
|
metal |
KVM |