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OpenNebula — Benchmarks

Scope

Performance characteristics, scaling limits, and resource consumption for OpenNebula.

VM Performance

Hypervisor vCPU Overhead Memory Overhead Network
KVM < 3% 100-200MB per VM Near-native
LXC < 1% 50MB per container Native
Firecracker < 1% 30MB per microVM Near-native

Scaling Limits

Dimension Single Frontend HA (3 nodes)
VMs 2,000-5,000 10,000+
Hosts 200 500+
Networks 4,096 (VLAN) 16M (VXLAN)
Storage images 10,000+ 10,000+

Scheduler Performance

VMs to Place Scheduling Time
10 < 1s
100 1-5s
1,000 5-30s