OpenNebula vs OpenStack: What are the differences?

OpenNebula: Open Source Cloud manager. It provides a simple but feature-rich and flexible solution for the comprehensive management of virtualized data centers to enable on-premise enterprise clouds in existing infrastructures. It can be primarily used as a virtualization tool to manage your virtual infrastructure in the data-center or cluster, which is usually referred as Private Cloud. OpenNebula supports Hybrid Cloud to combine local infrastructure with public cloud-based infrastructure, enabling highly scalable hosting environments. OpenNebula also supports Public Clouds by providing Cloud interfaces to expose its functionality for virtual machine, storage and network management; OpenStack: Open source software for building private and public clouds. OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface.

OpenNebula and OpenStack can be categorized as "Open Source Cloud" tools.

Some of the features offered by OpenNebula are:

• flexible
• robust
• powerful

On the other hand, OpenStack provides the following key features:

• Compute
• Storage
• Networking