Red Hat's OpenNebula release 7.0 is a significant step towards challenging VMware's Cloud Foundation dominance. OpenNebula's focus on open-source, hybrid cloud capabilities, and AI infrastructure opens up new possibilities for enterprise virtualization.
In the wake of Broadcom's shift in VMware's focus towards its private cloud strategy, Cloud Foundation , rivals are intensifying their efforts to offer an alternative stack. Red Hat, a key player in the open-source virtualization space, unveiled version 7.0 of its OpenNebula suite, hailing it as a 'major architectural leap'.
This upgrade introduces a redefined cloud-edge orchestration engine crafted to support distributed, sovereign, and intelligent infrastructure across hybrid and multi-provider environments. Moreover, the new version boasts support for Arm processors and enhanced PCI passthrough, enabling full compatibility with NVIDIA-mediated virtual GPUs. This opens the door for OpenNebula to be deployed in 'AI factories' – NVIDIA's nomenclature for data centers or infrastructure pods dedicated to AI workloads. Public Cloud Platform Integrations\Red Hat is also enhancing its migration capabilities with increased automation and refining its cloud provisioning engine, simplifying cluster setups. Furthermore, they are actively developing a maintenance release that includes a complete redesign of the engine and have commenced work on version 7.2. A prominent addition in this pipeline is a technology preview of the platform running on Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and Google Cloud. Upon finalizing these previews, Red Hat will be on par with VMware in terms of partners contributing to a hybrid cloud ecosystem. Another notable preview is smart resource allocation, a feature that monitors virtual machines' resource utilization in real-time and automatically distributes workloads to nodes with sufficient capacity. This is expected to optimize hardware utilization rates, a key metric that VMware aggressively promotes as a reason to adopt its products.\Security-Focused Approach\ Meanwhile, Edera, a Seattle-based startup, utilizes Xen for its paravirtualization capabilities, which they believe strengthens security. Edera also emphasizes the importance of memory-safe languages for security and has employed Rust to build a Xen tooling stack that they claim performs the same function as the xl management tool but offers enhanced security. Red Hat has also improved its VM migration tools, delegating the data movement task to storage arrays, thereby reducing the time and downtime required for relocation. Hitachi Vantara has developed a preview of this technology and is spearheading its development.\Other Vendors Contributing to the Landscape\Another innovative feature enables live migration of a virtual machine's storage, either to a different storage tier or to a different array. Again, this is a preview that Red Hat anticipates will be incorporated in a future update. Version 7.3 added a multicluster virtual switch that connects clusters and facilitates workload migrations across infrastructure pods. Nutanix has also made strides in provisioning automation, enhanced virtual routing with border gateway protocol refinements, and strengthened its resilience by enabling users to store snapshots in Azure Blob Storage, allowing for restoration without the need to maintain Azure compute resources. HPE's virtualization update took the form of a partnership with backup vendor Veeam, which will support HPE's Morpheus VM Essentials platform. HPE designed this product as an alternative to VMware's lower-end vSphere server virtualization bundles, facing less enthusiasm from VMware amid its private cloud pursuit.\The wave of activity from virtualization vendors is directly linked to Broadcom's changes to VMware's strategy, which has become fully committed to its Cloud Foundation bundle for private clouds, albeit at a premium price. Broadcom maintains that Cloud Foundation quickly recoups its cost by providing a more affordable alternative to public clouds, boosting on-premises infrastructure utilization, and, in its latest version 9, allowing for simpler cloud-like operations that enhance IT department productivity.\Broadcom is clearly focused on driving public cloud migration with Cloud Foundation, regardless of the impact on its traditional virtualization business. The competitive landscape is rapidly evolving, with rivals stepping up to challenge VMware's dominance
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