oVirt October Updates

Hope to meet many next week in LinuxCon Europe/KVM Forum/oVirt conference in Edinburgh Highlights: - oVirt 3.3 GA of course! some links covering it[10] - more links in Russian, Japanese, German and Italian [15] - oVirt 3.3.1 nearing beta this will include a slew of bug fixes, and a few items which missed 3.3. - Malini Rao sent a proposal for some UI changes[4] - some pluggable scheduler samples are available[5] - Summarized 3.4 community requests, hope the top ones will make it to 3.4[6] - 3.4 cycle - planned to be a shorter cycle, trying to make features available faster. - René Koch published version 0.1 of Monitoring UI-Plugin[8] - a new oVirt module merged to Ansible - covers VM life cycle (create/start/stop/etc.) [11] - a puppet module to deploy ovirt engine and ovirt node[12] - and a chef one[14] (both by Jason Cannon) Conferences: - LinuxCon Europe/KVM Forum/oVirt - next week in Edinburgh LOTs of sessions: http://www.ovirt.org/KVM_Forum_2013 - FOSDEM 2014 - We will be co-organizing a "Virtualization and IaaS" DevRoom with +Lars Kurth, +Itamar Heim and +Thierry Carrez as DevRoom organizers - past: Open World Forum - Building an open hybrid cloud with open source[13] K-LUG - Rochester, MN Area Linux Users Group - oVirt intro[16] Other: - a 3 part series by Humble on using the python sdk: How to shutdown/stop or start virtual machines (VMs) in ovirt DC automatically?[1] List Datacenter, hypervisors/host,vms in an ovirt DC with its name,status,id..etc[2] Find out hosts and clusters where vm is running. its status, ids, storage domain details in an ovirt dc[3] - another one by Humble: Convert physical/virtual systems to virtual using virt-p2v && virt-v2v then use it in ovirt DC[7] - LINBIT published "High-Availability oVirt-Cluster with iSCSI-Storage"[9] Have Fun, Itamar [1] http://humblec.com/ovirt-shutdownstop-start-virtual-machines-vms-ovirt-dc... [2] http://humblec.com/ovirt-list-datacenter-hypervisorshostvms-ovirt-dc-stat... [3] http://humblec.com/ovirt-find-hosts-clusters-vm-running-status-ids-storag... [4] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-October/017088.html [5] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-scheduler-proxy.git;a=tree;f=plugi... [6] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-October/016898.html [7] http://humblec.com/convert-physical-virtual-virtual-using-virt-v2v-virt-p... [8] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-October/016842.html [9] note: link requires registeration: http://www.linbit.com/en/company/news/333-high-available-virtualization-a... the pdf is: http://www.linbit.com/en/downloads/tech-guides?download=68:high-availabil... [10] ovirt 3.3 ga links http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/announce/2013-September/000061.html http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3_release_announcement http://www.redhat.com/about/news/archive/2013/9/ovirt-3-3-release-brings-... http://community.redhat.com/ovirt-3-3-glusterized/ http://community.redhat.com/ovirt-3-3-spices-up-the-software-defined-data... http://www.tuicool.com/articles/eIJnMr http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ2MzQ http://captainkvm.com/2013/09/614/ http://www.vmwareindex.com/category/hadoop-splunk/openstack/ovirt-3-3-is-... http://thehyperadvisor.com/2013/09/17/ovirt-3-3-is-now-released/ [11] https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/3838 [12] http://forge.puppetlabs.com/jcannon/ovirt/0.0.1 [13] http://www.openworldforum.org/en/schedule/1/ http://www.openworldforum.org/en/speakers/49/ [14] http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/ovirt [15] russian: http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=38000 http://ru.fedoracommunity.org/content/%D0%92%D1%8B%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB-ovir... http://linuxforum.ru/viewtopic.php?id=30572 http://citrix.pp.ru/news/2214-novaya-versiya-sistemy-upravleniya-infrastr... german: http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/20258/ovirt-33-unterstuetzt-openstack.html japanese: http://en.sourceforge.jp/magazine/13/09/25/163000 italian: http://www.freeonline.org/cs/com/la-release-ovirt-3-3-integra-openstack-e... http://www.tomshw.it/cont/news/open-source-red-hat-gestisce-la-virtualizz... [16] http://k-lug.org/OldNews