OpenNebula Reviews

Name: OpenNebula
Brand: OpenNebula
Rating: 4.1 (15 reviews)

4.1 out of 5

15 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is OpenNebula?

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.

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OpenNebula is the #6 ranked solution in top Cloud Management solutions. PeerSpot users give OpenNebula an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. OpenNebula is most commonly compared to VMware Aria Automation: OpenNebula vs VMware Aria Automation. OpenNebula is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 53% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 21% of all views.

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FOURES Jean-Philippe

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

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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AnkurGupta9

Principal DevOps Engineer at Guavus

I would like to see OpenNebula add more integration with REST API. XML-RPC API is good, but it becomes a pain to form a resting output. The pathway and prediction and all those things can be tricky. 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.

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Andrea Andrea

CTO at BE.iT SA

Setting up OpenNebula is complex. It’s not a plug-and-play solution, so you have to download the right version and compile it yourself. As it is open source, it requires some work. OpenNebula needs ongoing management and it is not an easy solution which can be installed and kept to work on its own.

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OpenNebula mindshare

As of May 2025, the mindshare of OpenNebula in the Cloud Management category stands at 7.4%, up from 6.5% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Management

PeerResearch reports based on OpenNebula reviews

Type	Title	Date
Category	Cloud Management	May 19, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	May 19, 2025	Download
Comparison	OpenNebula vs VMware Aria Automation	May 19, 2025	Download
Comparison	OpenNebula vs Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM)	May 19, 2025	Download
Comparison	OpenNebula vs VMware Aria Operations	May 19, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
VMware Aria Automation	4.0	11.7%	94%	170 interviews Add to research
VMware Aria Operations	4.1	8.3%	94%	374 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"It's easy to integrate OpenNebula with our IT systems."
"The live migration feature has been great and is something we use very often."
"The most valuable feature of OpenNebula is that it scales very well."

Room for Improvement

"The web interface could be better. It's not very difficult to use, but there's room for enhancement."
"As with all enterprise software licensing, the pricing is not intuitive and must be negotiated; grandfathered contracts are better than anything offered today."
"There are no payment gateways in OpenNebula."

Pricing

"OpenNebula gives good value for money."
"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."
"The solution is open source so is free."

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Computer Software Company

21%

University

10%

Financial Services Firm

Educational Organization

Comms Service Provider

Hospitality Company

Healthcare Company

Manufacturing Company

Government

Media Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Construction Company

Retailer

Energy/Utilities Company

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Insurance Company

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Non Profit

Legal Firm

Recreational Facilities/Services Company

Wholesaler/Distributor

Performing Arts

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Learn more about OpenNebula

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.

OpenNebula customers

Akamai, BBC, Fermilab, Terradue, Surf Sara, Produban, Netways, ESA, China Mobile, BlackBerry, Deloitte, Fuze, Telefonica, Trivago, Nokia, Encore Tech, Beeks.