A packaged opennebula, for vmware users
I guess I am the guy Trevor mentioned in the comment up there :-)
vOneCloud fulfills a very simple need- to add a simple and non-intrusive cloud-like layer on top of an existing vmware infrastructure, without having to resort to additional licensing, vCenters or vRealize components.
It is based on the latest OpenNebula cloud platform, which you can consider a little like the EU alternative to OpenStack; it is one of the first open source cloud platforms, created in 2005 as a research platform by the DSA (Distributed Systems Architecture) Research Group at Complutense University of Madrid, released as open source in 2008, and used in several EU research projects on cloud computing. It does have quite a lot of users (my company among them, with a list here https://opennebula.org/users/featuredusers/ and some handle more than 300K cores) and features a reasonable amount of functionality in a very modular framework. It supports hybrid computing (on AWS & Azure), federation, virtual data centers, physical and logical partitioning and resource management, service management (with autoscaling), SDN, resource accounting and a whole lot of other things.
It is very stable; maybe not so famous as OpenStack, but a very worthwhile project.
So, vOneCloud is a simple packaging that adds OpenNebula as an orchestrator on top of an existing vmware infrastructure; it sits there and works - just that. Since it requires no changes to the infrastructure, it is very low touch, so you can try it and see if it fulfills your needs.
As a partial response to previous comments, comparing OpenNebula with Proxmox is probably not right, as they are two different product categories - OpenNebula is more like OpenStack and Eucalyptus; they allow to scale to tens of datacenters or 10K nodes, which I believe that Proxmox does not do (no bashing of proxmox, as it's an excellent product in its own). If you want to add more "cloudity" to vmware, vOneCloud is IMHO one of the best tools out there. And it's open source- there are no hidden pieces. If you need support, you pay for it, like with RedHat or Suse.
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