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Comprehensive guides and references for the design, deployment, configuration and operation of cloud infrastructure. These guides will help you throughout the process from defining your cloud architecture to creating and managing cloud components, setting up policies for managing users and resources, importing ready-made appliances, and automating general operations

Design and configuration guides to improve resilience, performance, scalability and usability, covering from high-level design to the configuration of cloud components and the graphical control environment for cloud admins and users

Configure High Availability for the OpenNebula Front-end and Virtual Machines

Overview Front-end HA VM HA

Set up a federation of integrated OpenNebula Front-ends

Overview Federation Configuration Federation Usage

Complete configuration guides for the building blocks of your cloud, including supported network architectures and available drivers and backends for hosts, clusters, storage and backups

Complete information for creating and managing Virtual Machines. These guides include VM definitions, configurations for the supported networking architectures, creating VM backups, operating system parameters, and services comprising coordinated multiple Virtual Machines

Understand, create, and manage Virtual Machine images

Overview Images

Define and run backups and backup jobs for Virtual Machines

Overview VM Backup Operations Backup Jobs

Set up context, create disk images and define profiles for guest operating systems

Contextualization Creating Disk Images Windows Best Practices Operating System Profiles

Cloud System Administration involves management to achieve and maintain an effective control of your cloud infrastructure according to your specific needs. The guides in this section cover security, administration of resources, and leveraging usage forecasts for performance optimization and costs savings

Manage permissions, ACLs, and resources for users and groups

Overview Users Groups VDCs Sunstone Views Permissions and ACLs Accounting Showback

Define resource usage and quotas by VMs, VM groups, and cloud users

Overview Host Overcommitment Usage Quotas Affinity Groups

Configure scheduling of cloud resources using various methods to optimize the use of cloud resources

Overview Scheduler Configuration Rank Scheduler Distributed Resource Scheduler

Set up and configure the OpenNebula monitoring and resource usage forecasting system

Overview Monitoring System Resource Metrics Resource Usage Forecast

By default, an OpenNebula installation includes access to the OpenNebula Marketplace, a public catalog of ready-to-use appliances preconfigured to perform specific services. This section details how to manage public and private marketplaces – including creating your own – and how to explore and manage marketplace appliances

Configure the available Marketplaces or add new Public Marketplaces

Overview OpenNebula Systems Marketplace Linux Containers Marketplace

Configure your own or third-party private marketplaces

Overview HTTP Marketplace S3 Marketplace

Complete references for OpenNebula hypervisor drivers and objects: Virtual Machines, Hosts, images, tools, services and interfaces. These references contain the full lists and explanations of template parameters as well as syntax specifications, giving you full development capabilities and control over your created resources

Complete references for OpenNebula APIs and drivers, allowing you to manage and automate resources, extend functionality, and integrate OpenNebula with your datacenter processes