oVirt Monthly Newsletter: November 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-clu... Containers and virtualization can work together, writes Federico Simoncelli: http://redhatstackblog.redhat.com/2014/11/20/co-existence-of-containers-a... 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-pa... 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-im... 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-virtualizat... 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