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• Deployment and interfaces—Interfaces are available for cloud
consumers and providers. Cloud providers can develop customizedtools
with cloud interfaces. Consumers can use either the Command Line
Interface (CLI) or the SunStone Web Portal to perform most opera-
tions, especially the management of resources. In addition, the latest
release provides interfaces to cloud providers such as Amazon.
• Hypervisors—OpenNebula supports three major hypervisors:
KVM, Xen, and VMware. Because the hypervisor driver can be
shifted between different hypervisors, it provides a solution for a
multihypervisor platf ...