HPE Eucalyptus [EOL] vs OpenNebula comparison

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and OpenNebula are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. Additionally, 50% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of OpenNebula users who would recommend it.

HPE Eucalyptus [EOL]

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HPE Eucalyptus [EOL]

Average Rating

7.0

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OpenNebula

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

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Cloud Management (9th)

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HiranthaWijayawardena

Manager Global Cloud Strategy & Lean IT at Mubasher

Good interface, and an easy initial setup with good community support on the free version

The customization should be improved. We should be able to diversify the machine for AWS. When we get involved with that right now, it becomes very bad. Some areas of configuration didn't work for us. The solution should offer more speed and should be able to stabilize the database environment. We've tried to do this, but it hasn't been solid. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. If we want to do an interceptor, what we need is a really high level of TT programming or a specific configuration to be able to scale it out. It works to some extent, but it's not strong. When it does not implement in our center we have to go and manually fix it. The solution should be able to better scale the number of users, especially when you're using the cloud. The solution should extend better into the Microsoft community and companies should be able to run it on Azure Cloud.

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FOURES Jean-Philippe

Products Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Reliable, simple to manage, and offers great technical support

The support of VXLAN fits with our network management. Thanks to this we can propose mixed solutions using virtual resources on OpenNebula and bare metal servers hosted in our facilities linked to each other on the sale network. This use case is very useful when some applications need bare metal power (Kubernetes workers, huge databases, AI models computations, et cetera). The cluster management is very useful for splitting our different clusters (mutual vs dedicated). We can manage deployments and capacity planning without pain. The API is also really simple and it helped us to develop the Terraform provider to manage OpenNebula like any other cloud infrastructure.

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Pros

"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the interface on the console."

"OpenNebula is easy to deploy and manage compared to other solutions like OpenStack."

"The most valuable feature of OpenNebula is that it scales very well."

"The ability to use it almost like a public cloud for an organization is a big asset, as it will create a value proposition and can control costs in a great way."

"OpenNebula is lightweight, stable, and easy to customize."

"It makes maintenance very easy and stress-free for our teams."

"It's easy to integrate OpenNebula with our IT systems."

"OpenNebula has very good integration with SAP Storage."

"The solution provides templates for configurations that can easily be exchanged to VMs."

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Cons

"The customization should be improved."

"They should add more features like object storage."

"The UI, monitoring, and alerting could benefit from further improvements."

"It should have a simple REST API like most other tools. It's the industry standard format. An XML-RPC API gives you an XML document that you have to convert and then do something with that. REST API endpoint provides outputs in a JSON document. I would also like to see support for user data or heat templates, which OpenStack offers, but OpenNebula doesn't have this yet."

"The web interface could be better. It's not very difficult to use, but there's room for enhancement."

"Backup features are only available in the enterprise edition. The community version lacks a good solution for making backups."

"The protocol for clusterization is rough and doesn't work well."

"Hosting platforms are limited so the deployment process needs improvement."

"The front-facing API can be improved to support lots of requests when the platform is huge with lots of virtual resources."

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"OpenNebuoa has recently come up with a new subscription model that is economical and a lot of new customers are choosing this as it is an easy subscription model."

"OpenNebula gives good value for money."

"The solution is open source so is free."

"The licensing for OpenNebula used to be free, but now it's no longer free. A customer contacted me asking to move to another provider because of the changes in the licensing terms for OpenNebula. I have no information on how much the OpenNebula license is because the customer pays for it, and I only do the integration."

"VRA is very expensive but OpenNebula is free."

"We use the Community Edition, rather than the Enterprise Edition."

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Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

10%

University

Comms Service Provider

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	3

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What needs improvement with OpenNebula?

The web interface could be better. It's not very difficult to use, but there's room for enhancement. Another area for improvement is the integration with hardware to manage the lower layer of the n...

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What is your primary use case for OpenNebula?

Previously, we were using VMware, but recently, we've started using OpenNebula for cloud management. As a big cloud provider, it helps give customers increased control over their clusters. We use L...

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What advice do you have for others considering OpenNebula?

I recommend it, especially if you need a management interface for a small to medium private cloud. I would rate OpenNebula an eight out of ten.

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Also Known As

Eucalyptus, HP Eucalyptus

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Overview

HP Eucalyptus helps customers grow revenue and stay ahead of competition by enabling developers to get the IT resources they need in seconds, not days. Its unique AWS compatibility ensures applications are easily deployed in private, public or hybrid cloud environments.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

OpenNebula provides the most simple but feature-rich and flexible solution for the comprehensive management of virtualized data centers to enable private, public and hybrid IaaS clouds. OpenNebula interoperability makes cloud an evolution by leveraging existing IT assets, protecting your investments, and avoiding vendor lock-in.

OpenNebula is a turnkey enterprise-ready solution that includes all the features needed to provide an on-premises (private) cloud offering, and to offer public cloud services.

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