OpenNebula is an open-source cloud and edge management platform for building private and hybrid clouds on KVM virtual machines, LXC system containers, and Firecracker microVMs. First released in 2008 and licensed under Apache 2.0, it targets organizations that want a lightweight alternative to OpenStack or VMware with simple day-two operations. It provides multi-tenant self-service provisioning, live migration, and high availability, including stretched clusters across sites. The Community Edition is free; an annual subscription adds the Enterprise Edition, SLA-based support, and long-term-support releases, with plans starting around $3,750 per year.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2008
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Private cloud / virtualization
- Open-source
- Yes
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Hypervisor
- KVM
- Hyperconverged
- No
- Management UI
- Yes
- Live migration
- Yes
- HA clustering
- Yes
- Free tier
- Yes: Community Edition free under Apache 2.0; Enterprise Edition subscriptions from about $3,750/year.