OpenNebula key facts
Last updated- Legal entity
- OpenNebula Systems S.L.
- Headquarters
- Spain (ES)
- Ownership
- Independent
- Data hosting
- EU (any EU region)
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Open source
- Yes
- US Cloud Act exposure
- Low (no US parent)
- Replaces
- VMware vSphere, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure, OpenStack, AWS Outposts
About OpenNebula
OpenNebula is a powerful, Spanish-developed open-source platform designed to manage distributed data center infrastructures. It provides a unified management layer for virtualized resources, enabling the creation of private, hybrid, and edge cloud environments. The platform supports industry-standard hypervisors like KVM and container technologies such as LXC. It is specifically positioned as a European alternative to proprietary stacks like VMware, offering tools for multi-tenancy, elasticity, and complex multi-tier service orchestration.
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