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Cloudstack
Fedora 17 will include the CloudStack package, which provides a mature Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform.
OpenNebula
Also new to Fedora 17 is OpenNebula. OpenNebula provides an IaaS platform geared toward data center virtualization. Management of the environment can be done through command line or graphical interfaces. Compatibility with Amazon EC2 the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) is included.
OpenStack
Fedora 17 includes the latest version of the OpenStack suite, code named "Essex". Included in this new release are the latest versions of the web management interface ("Horizon") and virtual networking ("Quantum"). The use of Qpid as an alternative to RabbitMQ for the AQMP backend is new in Fedora 17. In addition, the availability of libguestfs to support multiple virtual disk formats will make Fedora's OpenStack offering more flexible.
Open vSwitch
Fedora 17 includes Open vSwitch, a software-based network switch used to provide networking services to virtual machines. Open vSwitch supports OpenFlow for ease-of-management.