oVirt Monthly Newsletter: November 2014

Brian Proffitt bproffit at redhat.com
Tue Dec 2 16:48:38 UTC 2014


Big news this month as oVirt Engine gets EL7 support, more commercial products based on oVirt are discovered, and oVirt 3.5 starts impacting the community!

=== Software News ===

oVirt snapshots available for testing on EL7! http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-November/029034.html

=== Technical News ===

Learn about smart VM scheduling in oVirt clusters from Martin Sivák: 
http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/11/smart-vm-scheduling-in-ovirt-clusters/

Containers and virtualization can work together, writes Federico Simoncelli:
http://redhatstackblog.redhat.com/2014/11/20/co-existence-of-containers-and-virtualization-technologies/

Here's how to get Up and Running with oVirt 3.5: 
(Part 1) 
http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/10/up-and-running-with-ovirt-3-5/ 
(Part 2) 
http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/11/up-and-running-with-ovirt-3-5-part-two/

Docker and oVirt integration is progressing fast http://website-humblec.rhcloud.com/ovirt-docker-integration-2/

A good basic roundup of KVM http://vmiss.net/infrastructure/meet-kvm-your-linux-based-hypervisor/

Learn more about hosted engine on iSCSI in this deep dive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU99qnKHvbk

Some deep-in-the-weeds numbers on oVirt power management http://kicklinux.com/supermicro-motherboard-ovirt-power-management/

Greg Sheremeta gives his intro to oVirt... http://www.slideshare.net/AllThingsOpen/introduction-to-ovirt

... as does Roozbeh Shafiee http://www.slideshare.net/RoozbehShafiee/ovirt-introduction

OpenStack *and* oVirt integration with Glance! http://cloudn1n3.blogspot.co.il/2014/11/openstack-series-part-5-glance-image.html

Michael Quinn shares his POV of post-oVirt 3.5 configuration issues http://theterminallife.com/post-ovirt-3-5-upgrade-issues/

Migrating to oVirt 3.5 (Spanish) http://blog.sotoca.es/2014/11/fallo-al-arrancar-maquinas-virtuales.html

VirtZine: Alternative Virtualization Platforms! http://www.virtzine.com/2014/11/virtzine-48-video-alternative-virtualization-platforms/

oVirt (and RHEV) Active Directory configiuration (Turkish) http://www.erkantugral.net/2014/11/ovirtrhev-de-active-directory.html

=== Community News ===

The GNOME Outreach Program for Women continues https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen/2014/DecemberMarch

Another oVirt-based product hits the market! https://cloudspin.me/

All KVM Forum slides are now uploaded to the KVM wiki. http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KVM_Forum_2014

The event videos are all posted on YouTube, on the KVM Forum channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRCSQmAOh7yzgheq-emy1xA

FUDCon Managua included some oVirt talks http://robyduck.fedoraonline.it/?p=37

Webinar: HP OneView for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization http://alturl.com/r2i5f

Symantec published a 200-page Storage Foundation and High Availability Virtualization Guide - Linux, with a big focus on RHEV http://alturl.com/o2xp8

BMCSoftware released a new connector for RHEV-M http://alturl.com/qouci

Ansible refreshed their oVirt/RHEV module http://alturl.com/txguk

It-novum converted 1100 VMs from VMWare to oVirt http://alturl.com/5h2gi

Tenable added RHEV Audit to their Nessus security scanner http://alturl.com/73b82

-- 
Brian Proffitt

Community Liaison
oVirt
Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com
Phone: +1 574 383 9BKP
IRC: bkp @ OFTC



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